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House prices over the last twelve months, area by area

The annual change in the average home price to August 2026 in 135 UK areas, from the UK House Price Index: where prices rose and where they fell.

Computed by Payotte from the UK House Price Index (August 2026) and the purchase tax rates of each nation, read on the official pages on 2026-10-14.

In short

In the twelve months to August 2026, average prices rose in 97 of the 135 areas and fell in 38. Biggest rises: Calderdale (+7.8%), Belfast (+7.7%), Hyndburn (+7.6%). Biggest falls: City of Westminster (−14.3%), Kensington and Chelsea (−13.8%), Tower Hamlets (−13.3%).

All 135 areas

#	Area	Nation	Average price	12-month change
1	Calderdale	England	£197,651	+7.8%
2	Belfast	Northern Ireland	£184,768	+7.7%
3	Hyndburn	England	£142,964	+7.6%
4	Highland	Scotland	£224,574	+7.4%
5	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	£136,593	+6.6%
6	Trafford	England	£393,897	+6.4%
7	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	£211,255	+5.8%
8	South Ayrshire	Scotland	£173,126	+5.8%
9	Wirral	England	£221,673	+5.8%
10	Falkirk	Scotland	£174,164	+5.3%
11	Mid Suffolk	England	£317,979	+5.3%
12	North East Derbyshire	England	£253,012	+5.3%
13	Fife	Scotland	£182,463	+5.1%
14	Kirklees	England	£208,427	+5.1%
15	St Helens	England	£186,445	+5.1%
16	Westmorland and Furness	England	£231,161	+5.1%
17	Harborough	England	£341,706	+5%
18	County Durham	England	£140,788	+4.9%
19	Rossendale	England	£201,483	+4.9%
20	Bolton	England	£203,951	+4.8%
21	Liverpool	England	£188,427	+4.7%
22	Lancaster	England	£203,781	+4.6%
23	Oldham	England	£217,214	+4.6%
24	Cheshire East	England	£311,897	+4.5%
25	Northumberland	England	£213,113	+4.5%
26	Gateshead	England	£156,036	+4.4%
27	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	£273,891	+4.3%
28	Cumberland	England	£172,654	+4.1%
29	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	£161,163	+3.9%
30	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	£186,196	+3.9%
31	Coventry	England	£227,721	+3.8%
32	Doncaster	England	£172,770	+3.8%
33	Wrexham	Wales	£215,035	+3.8%
34	Cheshire West and Chester	England	£270,534	+3.7%
35	North Tyneside	England	£205,554	+3.7%
36	East Ayrshire	Scotland	£138,206	+3.6%
37	Moray	Scotland	£203,371	+3.6%
38	North Somerset	England	£314,307	+3.6%
39	Blaby	England	£293,412	+3.4%
40	Dudley	England	£233,819	+3.4%
41	City of Plymouth	England	£223,229	+3.2%
42	St Albans	England	£655,974	+3.2%
43	North Hertfordshire	England	£422,835	+3.1%
44	North Lincolnshire	England	£180,345	+3%
45	Eastleigh	England	£312,753	+2.9%
46	Wakefield	England	£199,283	+2.9%
47	Bury	England	£243,107	+2.8%
48	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	£301,313	+2.8%
49	Somerset	England	£282,498	+2.8%
50	Warrington	England	£259,224	+2.8%
51	Wigan	England	£194,393	+2.8%
52	Bassetlaw	England	£211,488	+2.7%
53	Wolverhampton	England	£215,801	+2.7%
54	Walsall	England	£216,878	+2.6%
55	Flintshire	Wales	£214,882	+2.5%
56	South Tyneside	England	£160,518	+2.5%
57	Ipswich	England	£226,175	+2.4%
58	Leeds	England	£246,385	+2.4%
59	South Staffordshire	England	£308,695	+2.3%
60	West Lothian	Scotland	£225,439	+2.2%
61	Bradford	England	£185,297	+2.1%
62	Cardiff	Wales	£272,443	+2.1%
63	Manchester	England	£256,760	+2.1%
64	Sefton	England	£221,105	+2%
65	East Hertfordshire	England	£455,973	+1.9%
66	City of Glasgow	Scotland	£194,382	+1.8%
67	North Yorkshire	England	£270,080	+1.7%
68	Knowsley	England	£191,550	+1.6%
69	Birmingham	England	£234,867	+1.5%
70	Bolsover	England	£183,198	+1.5%
71	Crawley	England	£332,097	+1.5%
72	Warwick	England	£370,924	+1.5%
73	Wiltshire	England	£328,102	+1.5%
74	Powys	Wales	£237,042	+1.4%
75	Tameside	England	£213,026	+1.4%
76	Stratford-on-Avon	England	£396,711	+1.3%
77	Telford and Wrekin	England	£221,853	+1.2%
78	Bedford	England	£330,462	+1.1%
79	South Gloucestershire	England	£335,572	+1%
80	Babergh	England	£331,207	+0.9%
81	City of Bristol	England	£353,596	+0.9%
82	South Hams	England	£360,616	+0.8%
83	Southampton	England	£235,729	+0.8%
84	Rotherham	England	£191,052	+0.7%
85	York	England	£311,865	+0.7%
86	Sheffield	England	£217,603	+0.6%
87	Milton Keynes	England	£323,868	+0.5%
88	Charnwood	England	£270,351	+0.4%
89	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	£219,871	+0.4%
90	Solihull	England	£332,022	+0.2%
91	West Northamptonshire	England	£289,726	+0.2%
92	Central Bedfordshire	England	£355,263	+0.1%
93	Merton	England	£623,791	+0.1%
94	North Northamptonshire	England	£252,884	+0.1%
95	Adur	England	£378,990	0%
96	Buckinghamshire	England	£477,450	0%
97	Sandwell	England	£207,065	0%
98	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	£258,960	−0.1%
99	New Forest	England	£384,564	−0.2%
100	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	£226,730	−0.2%
101	Breckland	England	£266,835	−0.3%
102	Dorset	England	£328,589	−0.4%
103	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	£171,154	−0.5%
104	Horsham	England	£441,491	−0.5%
105	Teignbridge	England	£298,159	−0.5%
106	Exeter	England	£289,403	−0.7%
107	Mid Sussex	England	£431,904	−0.8%
108	Test Valley	England	£372,289	−0.8%
109	Shropshire	England	£277,521	−0.9%
110	Tendring	England	£260,636	−1.2%
111	City of Peterborough	England	£231,634	−1.3%
112	Croydon	England	£396,718	−1.5%
113	Leicester	England	£226,881	−1.5%
114	West Devon	England	£286,921	−1.5%
115	Hackney	England	£619,408	−1.6%
116	Lewisham	England	£486,416	−1.6%
117	Salford	England	£223,323	−1.7%
118	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	£310,176	−1.9%
119	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	£200,965	−2%
120	Brighton and Hove	England	£408,240	−2.1%
121	Southwark	England	£569,160	−2.1%
122	Greenwich	England	£462,868	−2.2%
123	East Suffolk	England	£277,949	−2.3%
124	Halton	England	£189,435	−2.3%
125	Rutland	England	£307,406	−2.7%
126	Cornwall	England	£274,570	−2.9%
127	Worthing	England	£299,075	−5%
128	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	£754,825	−5.1%
129	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	£133,782	−5.2%
130	Wandsworth	England	£694,210	−5.3%
131	Lambeth	England	£540,198	−6.5%
132	Camden	England	£798,486	−10.6%
133	Tower Hamlets	England	£447,950	−13.3%
134	Kensington and Chelsea	England	£1,204,072	−13.8%
135	City of Westminster	England	£887,206	−14.3%

How Payotte computed it

Annual change published by the UK House Price Index for the latest month, all property types.

Prices: average prices of the UK House Price Index for August 2026, published by HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services and the ONS. Each area links to its page, with the ten-year trend and a calculator. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with a link to this page.

Questions

In how many UK areas did house prices fall in the year to August 2026?

38 of the 135 areas Payotte follows.

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Sources

UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services Northern Ireland, ONS). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GOV.UK, Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates (HMRC); Higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax (HMRC, last updated 1 April 2025)
Revenue Scotland, LBTT residential property (rates and bands as of 1 April 2021, first-time buyer relief); Scottish Budget 2025-2026: ADS rate 8% for contracts on or after 5 December 2024
Welsh Government, Land Transaction Tax rates and bands (main residential rates from 10 October 2022, higher residential rates from 11 December 2024)

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