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What is the most expensive (and cheapest) area of England? Greater London

Greater London is the most expensive of the 71 areas in England, with an average sold price of £651,235. Kingston upon Hull is the cheapest at £140,463, 78% less.

Greater London average
£651,235
Cheapest: Kingston upon Hull
£140,463
Areas compared
71

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, not asking prices. How we calculate this

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How do all 71 areas of England compare?

Average sold price in each area of England, most expensive first, with the change over one year.

  1. 1
    Greater London

    £651,235

    Change over one year: −5.2%

  2. 2
    Surrey

    £601,281

    Change over one year: −2.6%

  3. 3
    Buckinghamshire

    £546,825

    Change over one year: −3.0%

  4. 4
    Hertfordshire

    £530,812

    Change over one year: −1.1%

  5. 5
    Brighton and Hove

    £481,193

    Change over one year: −0.5%

  6. 6
    Oxfordshire

    £476,957

    Change over one year: −1.3%

  7. 7
    Berkshire

    £475,741

    Change over one year: −2.6%

  8. 8
    West Sussex

    £430,177

    Change over one year: −2.4%

  9. 9
    Hampshire

    £419,118

    Change over one year: −0.2%

  10. 10
    Essex

    £410,346

    Change over one year: −2.2%

  11. 11
    West of England

    £400,696

    Change over one year: −0.9%

  12. 12
    Rutland

    £395,459

    Change over one year: −4.2%

  13. 13
    Kent

    £391,434

    Change over one year: −1.7%

  14. 14
    Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

    £384,554

    Change over one year: −1.5%

  15. 15
    Gloucestershire

    £383,841

    Change over one year: +2.4%

  16. 16
    East Sussex

    £377,119

    Change over one year: −1.9%

  17. 17
    Dorset

    £374,230

    Change over one year: −2.2%

  18. 18
    Isles of Scilly

    £371,925

    Change over one year: −38.9%

  19. 19
    Southend-on-Sea

    £365,846

    Change over one year: −1.3%

  20. 20
    Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

    £364,694

    Change over one year: −0.2%

  21. 21
    Thurrock

    £363,849

    Change over one year: +1.8%

  22. 22
    Bedfordshire

    £360,399

    Change over one year: −1.4%

  23. 23
    Wiltshire

    £360,231

    Change over one year: −1.3%

  24. 24
    Romsey and Southampton North

    £355,082

    Change over one year: −4.4%

  25. 25
    City of Milton Keynes

    £353,623

    Change over one year: +0.1%

  26. 26
    North Somerset

    £352,846

    Change over one year: −0.7%

  27. 27
    Warwickshire

    £348,331

    Change over one year: −1.5%

  28. 28
    Devon

    £346,324

    Change over one year: −3.3%

  29. 29
    York

    £342,022

    Change over one year: −0.5%

  30. 30
    Cornwall

    £329,170

    Change over one year: −4.1%

  31. 31
    Worcestershire

    £326,801

    Change over one year: −0.6%

  32. 32
    Herefordshire

    £325,547

    Change over one year: −2.5%

  33. 33
    Suffolk

    £319,198

    Change over one year: −0.6%

  34. 34
    Medway

    £318,939

    Change over one year: +0.2%

  35. 35
    North Yorkshire

    £317,321

    Change over one year: −0.3%

  36. 36
    Somerset

    £316,694

    Change over one year: −1.4%

  37. 37
    Cheshire

    £313,510

    Change over one year: +0.5%

  38. 38
    Leicestershire

    £308,647

    Change over one year: −0.4%

  39. 39
    Northamptonshire

    £303,775

    Change over one year: −0.0%

  40. 40
    Norfolk

    £301,153

    Change over one year: −1.4%

  41. 41
    Swindon

    £287,934

    Change over one year: +0.1%

  42. 42
    Shropshire (Ceremonial)

    £284,860

    Change over one year: −0.8%

  43. 43
    Isle of Wight

    £281,512

    Change over one year: −3.9%

  44. 44
    Staffordshire

    £276,198

    Change over one year: +0.5%

  45. 45
    Portsmouth

    £270,753

    Change over one year: −7.1%

  46. 46
    Greater Manchester

    £268,769

    Change over one year: +1.5%

  47. 47
    Torbay

    £266,009

    Change over one year: −3.5%

  48. 48
    Nottinghamshire

    £261,042

    Change over one year: −0.5%

  49. 49
    Derbyshire

    £260,597

    Change over one year: +0.8%

  50. 50
    West Midlands Combined Authority

    £259,414

    Change over one year: +0.8%

  51. 51
    Southampton

    £257,211

    Change over one year: +1.0%

  52. 52
    Lincolnshire

    £249,637

    Change over one year: +0.1%

  53. 53
    East Riding of Yorkshire

    £247,559

    Change over one year: −0.3%

  54. 54
    Plymouth

    £247,144

    Change over one year: +1.6%

  55. 55
    City of Leicester

    £246,178

    Change over one year: −0.1%

  56. 56
    West Yorkshire

    £240,872

    Change over one year: +2.5%

  57. 57
    North of Tyne

    £239,190

    Change over one year: +1.1%

  58. 58
    Derby

    £229,172

    Change over one year: +0.3%

  59. 59
    Cumbria

    £227,760

    Change over one year: −2.3%

  60. 60
    Liverpool City Region

    £222,063

    Change over one year: +2.0%

  61. 61
    Lancashire

    £221,411

    Change over one year: +0.5%

  62. 62
    South Yorkshire

    £212,811

    Change over one year: −1.3%

  63. 63
    City of Nottingham

    £210,794

    Change over one year: −1.0%

  64. 64
    North Lincolnshire

    £194,620

    Change over one year: −0.1%

  65. 65
    Blackburn with Darwen

    £176,636

    Change over one year: −1.3%

  66. 66
    Tees Valley

    £169,930

    Change over one year: −0.4%

  67. 67
    North East

    £160,035

    Change over one year: +0.6%

  68. 68
    North East Lincolnshire

    £159,510

    Change over one year: −0.9%

  69. 69
    Stoke-on-Trent

    £156,586

    Change over one year: −1.5%

  70. 70
    Blackpool

    £143,290

    Change over one year: +1.1%

  71. 71
    Kingston upon Hull

    £140,463

    Change over one year: +1.6%

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Where does this data come from?

Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Last updated 6 October 2026 at 20:48 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The England dataset covers 2,235,964 postcodes.

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