When did average house prices in UK reach their peak? June 2021
Average house prices in UK peaked at £399,235 in June 2021, the highest monthly average since January 1995. Across the 12 months to September 2026, the average is £349,004.
- Peak average
- £399,235
- Latest 12-month average
- £349,004
- Data up to
- September 2026
Sold prices from HM Land Registry, not asking prices. How we calculate this
All house prices in UKWhat was the average house price in UK each year?
Average sold price in each calendar year, newest first. 2022 had the highest yearly average of the past 10 years.
| Year | Average price |
|---|---|
| 2026 (to September) | £344,457 |
| 2025 | £359,676 |
| 2024 | £357,751 |
| 2023 | £357,158 |
| 2022Highest | £360,805 |
| 2021 | £341,551 |
| 2020 | £319,871 |
| 2019 | £296,236 |
| 2018 | £294,171 |
| 2017 | £290,208 |
How have house prices in UK changed over time?
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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. Crime is from police.uk street-level data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: police.uk.
Last updated 31 October 2026 at 20:42 with the latest Land Registry data (September 2026). The UK dataset covers 2,376,017 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.