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The purchase tax on the average detached house, area by area

Name: The purchase tax on the average detached house, area by area
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The tax a home mover pays on the average detached house of 135 UK areas (SDLT, LBTT or LTT), August 2026.

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

On the average detached house, a home mover pays the most tax in Kensington and Chelsea (£435,105 on £4,344,621), City of Westminster (£386,010 on £3,935,497), Camden (£342,707 on £3,574,639), and the least in County Durham (£2,262), City of Kingston upon Hull (£2,396), Hyndburn (£2,497).

All 134 areas

#	Area	Nation	Average detached price	Tax for a home mover
1	Kensington and Chelsea	England	£4,344,621	£435,105
2	City of Westminster	England	£3,935,497	£386,010
3	Camden	England	£3,574,639	£342,707
4	Wandsworth	England	£2,517,820	£215,888
5	Merton	England	£2,362,655	£197,269
6	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	£1,763,936	£125,422
7	Southwark	England	£1,727,364	£121,034
8	Hackney	England	£1,369,433	£80,693
9	St Albans	England	£1,274,817	£71,232
10	Lambeth	England	£1,160,559	£59,806
11	Lewisham	England	£1,106,429	£54,393
12	Greenwich	England	£1,011,676	£44,918
13	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	£691,415	£42,492
14	Tower Hamlets	England	£899,832	£34,992
15	East Hertfordshire	England	£878,608	£33,930
16	Brighton and Hove	England	£855,390	£32,770
17	Buckinghamshire	England	£852,415	£32,621
18	Croydon	England	£848,183	£32,409
19	North Hertfordshire	England	£798,369	£29,918
20	Trafford	England	£789,690	£29,485
21	Horsham	England	£763,686	£28,184
22	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	£536,703	£27,020
23	Mid Sussex	England	£732,644	£26,632
24	City of Bristol	England	£689,673	£24,484
25	City of Glasgow	Scotland	£498,117	£23,162
26	Crawley	England	£662,949	£23,147
27	Warwick	England	£648,164	£22,408
28	Adur	England	£632,543	£21,627
29	Stratford-on-Avon	England	£609,696	£20,485
30	Test Valley	England	£608,008	£20,400
31	Central Bedfordshire	England	£603,864	£20,193
32	Worthing	England	£598,727	£19,936
33	Solihull	England	£590,344	£19,517
34	New Forest	England	£584,165	£19,208
35	Cardiff	Wales	£515,292	£19,147
36	Bedford	England	£557,923	£17,896
37	South Gloucestershire	England	£551,374	£17,569
38	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	£550,618	£17,531
39	Milton Keynes	England	£545,636	£17,282
40	South Hams	England	£545,564	£17,278
41	North Somerset	England	£536,372	£16,819
42	Eastleigh	England	£527,895	£16,395
43	Exeter	England	£526,611	£16,331
44	Dorset	England	£519,998	£16,000
45	Wiltshire	England	£517,138	£15,857
46	York	England	£510,541	£15,527
47	Cheshire East	England	£504,698	£15,235
48	Manchester	England	£485,089	£14,254
49	Babergh	England	£483,902	£14,195
50	West Lothian	Scotland	£404,805	£13,831
51	Teignbridge	England	£471,265	£13,563
52	Harborough	England	£469,722	£13,486
53	West Northamptonshire	England	£467,095	£13,355
54	Somerset	England	£459,165	£12,958
55	Leeds	England	£449,768	£12,488
56	South Staffordshire	England	£449,768	£12,488
57	Birmingham	England	£444,169	£12,208
58	Warrington	England	£443,902	£12,195
59	Rutland	England	£441,804	£12,090
60	Mid Suffolk	England	£440,981	£12,049
61	Salford	England	£439,476	£11,974
62	Cheshire West and Chester	England	£439,091	£11,955
63	West Devon	England	£432,878	£11,644
64	North Yorkshire	England	£431,122	£11,556
65	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	£380,098	£11,360
66	Cornwall	England	£419,340	£10,967
67	Southampton	England	£417,294	£10,865
68	City of Plymouth	England	£417,218	£10,861
69	Shropshire	England	£416,462	£10,823
70	Bury	England	£414,043	£10,702
71	Charnwood	England	£413,319	£10,666
72	Coventry	England	£407,173	£10,359
73	East Suffolk	England	£403,830	£10,192
74	Ipswich	England	£402,030	£10,102
75	North Northamptonshire	England	£401,061	£10,053
76	Blaby	England	£400,551	£10,028
77	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	£398,736	£9,937
78	Liverpool	England	£397,175	£9,859
79	Wirral	England	£395,663	£9,783
80	Westmorland and Furness	England	£390,474	£9,524
81	Sefton	England	£386,996	£9,350
82	Leicester	England	£380,683	£9,034
83	Calderdale	England	£380,393	£9,020
84	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	£379,839	£8,992
85	Sheffield	England	£379,082	£8,954
86	North Tyneside	England	£379,016	£8,951
87	Oldham	England	£378,615	£8,931
88	Bolton	England	£376,034	£8,802
89	City of Peterborough	England	£372,087	£8,604
90	Fife	Scotland	£352,415	£8,592
91	Northumberland	England	£371,788	£8,589
92	Tameside	England	£370,564	£8,528
93	Tendring	England	£367,926	£8,396
94	Highland	Scotland	£349,591	£8,309
95	Falkirk	Scotland	£348,788	£8,229
96	Breckland	England	£363,192	£8,160
97	Dudley	England	£362,171	£8,109
98	Rossendale	England	£361,572	£8,079
99	Walsall	England	£355,603	£7,780
100	Kirklees	England	£352,682	£7,634
101	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	£348,119	£7,406
102	Lancaster	England	£347,475	£7,374
103	Telford and Wrekin	England	£345,093	£7,255
104	North East Derbyshire	England	£343,161	£7,158
105	Wolverhampton	England	£343,043	£7,152
106	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	£333,758	£6,688
107	Bradford	England	£330,266	£6,513
108	Sandwell	England	£329,048	£6,452
109	Powys	Wales	£325,350	£6,021
110	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	£326,341	£5,984
111	Wigan	England	£316,388	£5,819
112	Halton	England	£316,315	£5,816
113	Wakefield	England	£314,988	£5,749
114	Wrexham	Wales	£319,935	£5,696
115	Bassetlaw	England	£313,779	£5,689
116	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	£321,216	£5,661
117	South Tyneside	England	£312,438	£5,622
118	South Ayrshire	Scotland	£317,953	£5,498
119	Moray	Scotland	£315,635	£5,382
120	St Helens	England	£305,687	£5,284
121	Knowsley	England	£305,093	£5,255
122	Flintshire	Wales	£309,244	£5,055
123	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	£303,209	£4,760
124	Rotherham	England	£293,663	£4,683
125	Gateshead	England	£287,336	£4,367
126	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	£294,811	£4,341
127	Cumberland	England	£286,152	£4,308
128	Doncaster	England	£262,142	£3,107
129	Bolsover	England	£261,339	£3,067
130	East Ayrshire	Scotland	£265,173	£2,859
131	North Lincolnshire	England	£251,367	£2,568
132	Hyndburn	England	£249,874	£2,497
133	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	£244,807	£2,396
134	County Durham	England	£238,105	£2,262

How Payotte computed it

Tax for a home mover buying the average detached house of the area as their only residence, at the rates of each nation.

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.

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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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