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House prices over the last twelve months, area by area

The annual change in the average home price to July 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 (July 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 July 2026, average prices rose in 104 of the 135 areas and fell in 31. Biggest rises: Trafford (+9.6%), Harborough (+8.5%), Hyndburn (+8.5%). Biggest falls: City of Westminster (−20.7%), Tower Hamlets (−14.4%), Kensington and Chelsea (−14.1%).

All 135 areas

#	Area	Nation	Average price	12-month change
1	Trafford	England	£400,688	+9.6%
2	Harborough	England	£347,010	+8.5%
3	Hyndburn	England	£141,430	+8.5%
4	South Ayrshire	Scotland	£171,905	+8.5%
5	North East Derbyshire	England	£253,810	+8.4%
6	Liverpool	England	£189,036	+8.1%
7	Belfast	Northern Ireland	£184,768	+7.7%
8	Westmorland and Furness	England	£230,449	+7.7%
9	Northumberland	England	£212,563	+7.3%
10	St Helens	England	£185,154	+7.3%
11	East Ayrshire	Scotland	£138,971	+7.2%
12	Wolverhampton	England	£220,559	+7.2%
13	Wirral	England	£221,849	+6.7%
14	North Tyneside	England	£205,744	+6.5%
15	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	£271,608	+6.2%
16	Highland	Scotland	£221,136	+6.1%
17	Kirklees	England	£208,987	+6.1%
18	Bolton	England	£204,379	+5.9%
19	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	£135,511	+5.9%
20	Cheshire West and Chester	England	£270,104	+5.8%
21	Moray	Scotland	£204,008	+5.6%
22	South Staffordshire	England	£310,862	+5.6%
23	Bassetlaw	England	£214,281	+5.5%
24	Fife	Scotland	£179,134	+5.4%
25	Warrington	England	£260,040	+5.4%
26	North Hertfordshire	England	£418,857	+5.3%
27	South Tyneside	England	£161,559	+5.3%
28	Cheshire East	England	£309,121	+5%
29	Falkirk	Scotland	£173,046	+4.9%
30	Lancaster	England	£202,966	+4.9%
31	County Durham	England	£140,447	+4.7%
32	Doncaster	England	£172,305	+4.7%
33	Oldham	England	£217,171	+4.7%
34	North Lincolnshire	England	£179,954	+4.5%
35	Calderdale	England	£191,385	+4.3%
36	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	£207,547	+4.1%
37	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	£185,267	+4.1%
38	Wakefield	England	£199,347	+4.1%
39	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	£303,965	+4%
40	Bedford	England	£333,824	+3.9%
41	Wigan	England	£194,551	+3.9%
42	Leeds	England	£247,695	+3.8%
43	North Somerset	England	£313,638	+3.8%
44	Powys	Wales	£237,762	+3.8%
45	Coventry	England	£227,679	+3.7%
46	East Hertfordshire	England	£457,417	+3.7%
47	Gateshead	England	£155,550	+3.7%
48	Sefton	England	£224,289	+3.7%
49	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	£158,591	+3.6%
50	Dudley	England	£232,196	+3.5%
51	South Gloucestershire	England	£341,833	+3.4%
52	Cumberland	England	£170,966	+3.3%
53	Solihull	England	£337,112	+3.3%
54	Bolsover	England	£182,759	+3.2%
55	Mid Suffolk	England	£315,898	+3.2%
56	Telford and Wrekin	England	£226,893	+3.2%
57	Rossendale	England	£199,759	+3.1%
58	Somerset	England	£282,062	+3.1%
59	North Northamptonshire	England	£257,807	+2.9%
60	Bury	England	£242,437	+2.8%
61	Sheffield	England	£219,713	+2.8%
62	Cardiff	Wales	£272,252	+2.7%
63	City of Glasgow	Scotland	£193,675	+2.6%
64	Eastleigh	England	£310,283	+2.6%
65	Milton Keynes	England	£330,419	+2.6%
66	Wiltshire	England	£328,746	+2.6%
67	Birmingham	England	£234,257	+2.5%
68	Bradford	England	£182,766	+2.5%
69	North Yorkshire	England	£270,463	+2.5%
70	Southampton	England	£235,977	+2.4%
71	Charnwood	England	£273,945	+2.3%
72	Crawley	England	£332,384	+2.3%
73	Flintshire	Wales	£215,892	+2.3%
74	St Albans	England	£646,781	+2.3%
75	West Lothian	Scotland	£227,354	+2.3%
76	City of Plymouth	England	£223,161	+2.2%
77	Wrexham	Wales	£212,778	+2.2%
78	City of Bristol	England	£352,262	+2.1%
79	Blaby	England	£289,282	+1.9%
80	Halton	England	£194,727	+1.8%
81	York	England	£310,781	+1.8%
82	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	£260,187	+1.7%
83	Rotherham	England	£191,496	+1.7%
84	Warwick	England	£369,220	+1.7%
85	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	£220,408	+1.6%
86	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	£228,142	+1.6%
87	Stratford-on-Avon	England	£396,753	+1.6%
88	Walsall	England	£215,329	+1.5%
89	Adur	England	£380,120	+1.3%
90	Ipswich	England	£221,445	+1.3%
91	Central Bedfordshire	England	£356,758	+1.2%
92	Manchester	England	£252,309	+1.2%
93	West Northamptonshire	England	£291,929	+1.2%
94	Buckinghamshire	England	£479,736	+1.1%
95	Knowsley	England	£188,527	+0.9%
96	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	£204,894	+0.7%
97	Babergh	England	£330,523	+0.7%
98	Horsham	England	£441,654	+0.7%
99	Lewisham	England	£488,658	+0.7%
100	Breckland	England	£268,905	+0.6%
101	Salford	England	£229,462	+0.3%
102	Southwark	England	£572,478	+0.1%
103	Teignbridge	England	£302,368	+0.1%
104	New Forest	England	£384,977	0%
105	Dorset	England	£325,154	−0.1%
106	Tameside	England	£209,723	−0.1%
107	City of Peterborough	England	£234,690	−0.2%
108	Mid Sussex	England	£430,777	−0.2%
109	Sandwell	England	£205,830	−0.4%
110	Test Valley	England	£368,131	−0.6%
111	West Devon	England	£285,834	−0.6%
112	Cornwall	England	£275,642	−0.7%
113	Leicester	England	£227,322	−0.9%
114	Merton	England	£615,890	−0.9%
115	East Suffolk	England	£276,301	−1%
116	Brighton and Hove	England	£408,948	−1.1%
117	Shropshire	England	£275,232	−1.3%
118	Greenwich	England	£462,589	−1.4%
119	Tendring	England	£259,568	−1.4%
120	Exeter	England	£282,696	−1.7%
121	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	£310,094	−1.9%
122	Hackney	England	£605,729	−2.6%
123	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	£166,005	−2.7%
124	Croydon	England	£390,041	−3.4%
125	Worthing	England	£297,200	−3.9%
126	South Hams	England	£355,483	−5.3%
127	Wandsworth	England	£686,076	−5.5%
128	Lambeth	England	£536,623	−6.3%
129	Rutland	England	£298,916	−6.5%
130	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	£130,689	−8.7%
131	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	£738,048	−9%
132	Camden	England	£815,159	−10.1%
133	Kensington and Chelsea	England	£1,232,640	−14.1%
134	Tower Hamlets	England	£447,796	−14.4%
135	City of Westminster	England	£876,788	−20.7%

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 July 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 July 2026?

31 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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