Throughout England and Wales the average house sale price in May 2022 was £351,877. This is a £5,231 increase (1.5%) on the average sale price from the previous month and a £27,628 (8.5%) increase since last year. Semi-Detached properties performed best with an average monthly percentage gain in May 2022 of 3.3%. The total number of sales in May 2022 was 30,415 - a decrease of 52.8% in the past year.
The region showing the strongest monthly gain in average sale prices is Rutland with a £72,488 increase (24.9%) from April 2022 to May 2022. The poorest performer is Isle of Anglesey showing a £55,432 decrease (-20.5%) over the same time period (see important note).
Average House Sales by Region
| Region | Average Sale Price | Monthly % Change |
|---|---|---|
| Bath and North East Somerset | £510,402 | 2% |
| Bedford | £349,134 | 9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £188,345 | 38% |
| Blackpool | £145,971 | 5% |
| Blaenau Gwent | £151,918 | 8% |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £400,793 | 0% |
| Bracknell Forest | £433,905 | -8% |
| Bridgend | £217,380 | 4% |
| Brighton and Hove | £489,035 | 4% |
| Buckinghamshire | £575,796 | 6% |
| Caerphilly | £204,343 | 5% |
| Cambridgeshire | £364,741 | -5% |
| Cardiff | £319,334 | 9% |
| Carmarthenshire | £202,006 | -5% |
| Central Bedfordshire | £367,614 | 4% |
| Ceredigion | £281,265 | 8% |
| Cheshire East | £338,974 | 2% |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £280,411 | 10% |
| City of Bristol | £378,820 | -5% |
| City of Derby | £214,547 | 0% |
| City of Kingston Upon Hull | £144,812 | 5% |
| City of Nottingham | £203,246 | 2% |
| City of Peterborough | £253,477 | 7% |
| City of Plymouth | £238,936 | 5% |
| Conwy | £228,845 | 3% |
| Cornwall | £343,115 | 2% |
| County Durham | £142,603 | -2% |
| Cumbria | £201,314 | -3% |
| Darlington | £222,401 | 32% |
| Denbighshire | £193,473 | -1% |
| Derbyshire | £241,862 | -2% |
| Devon | £363,600 | 2% |
| Dorset | £374,669 | -6% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £224,644 | -3% |
| East Sussex | £354,678 | -2% |
| Essex | £401,173 | 1% |
| Flintshire | £219,649 | -2% |
| Gloucestershire | £362,014 | 3% |
| Greater London | £705,690 | 3% |
| Greater Manchester | £235,339 | -6% |
| Gwynedd | £214,049 | -3% |
| Halton | £174,723 | -7% |
| Hampshire | £425,061 | 2% |
| Hartlepool | £113,419 | -29% |
| Herefordshire | £306,925 | -1% |
| Hertfordshire | £526,075 | -2% |
| Isle of Anglesey | £215,350 | -20% |
| Isle of Wight | £301,420 | -2% |
| Isles of Scilly | £550,000 | 7% |
| Kent | £386,365 | -2% |
| Lancashire | £204,057 | 5% |
| Leicester | £238,469 | 8% |
| Leicestershire | £309,862 | 4% |
| Lincolnshire | £240,025 | -3% |
| Luton | £315,622 | 7% |
| Medway | £297,407 | -5% |
| Merseyside | £205,637 | 2% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | £147,618 | -6% |
| Middlesbrough | £160,941 | 8% |
| Milton Keynes | £355,355 | -1% |
| Monmouthshire | £345,891 | -4% |
| Neath Port Talbot | £147,634 | -11% |
| Newport | £226,343 | 0% |
| Norfolk | £306,659 | 1% |
| North East Lincolnshire | £154,509 | 1% |
| North Lincolnshire | £180,508 | -1% |
| North Northamptonshire | £272,712 | 0% |
| North Somerset | £380,866 | 0% |
| North Yorkshire | £297,616 | 5% |
| Northumberland | £218,540 | -1% |
| Nottinghamshire | £250,490 | 7% |
| Oxfordshire | £460,440 | -1% |
| Pembrokeshire | £226,638 | -6% |
| Portsmouth | £274,777 | 1% |
| Powys | £241,823 | -13% |
| Reading | £374,881 | 5% |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £172,390 | 6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff | £159,996 | 2% |
| Rutland | £363,293 | 25% |
| Shropshire | £278,564 | 2% |
| Slough | £406,663 | 12% |
| Somerset | £319,427 | -3% |
| South Gloucestershire | £355,117 | 5% |
| South Yorkshire | £192,956 | -2% |
| Southampton | £274,248 | 2% |
| Southend-on-Sea | £395,881 | -2% |
| Staffordshire | £256,562 | 2% |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £182,343 | 5% |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £154,653 | 11% |
| Suffolk | £330,567 | 2% |
| Surrey | £647,069 | 3% |
| Swansea | £234,731 | 1% |
| Swindon | £294,359 | 12% |
| The Vale of Glamorgan | £357,815 | 15% |
| Thurrock | £358,504 | 6% |
| Torbay | £267,228 | -2% |
| Torfaen | £212,689 | 16% |
| Tyne and Wear | £182,676 | 1% |
| Warrington | £249,883 | -12% |
| Warwickshire | £319,742 | -9% |
| West Berkshire | £459,961 | 16% |
| West Midlands | £252,356 | 4% |
| West Northamptonshire | £329,710 | 4% |
| West Sussex | £437,778 | 3% |
| West Yorkshire | £222,387 | 2% |
| Wiltshire | £349,219 | -4% |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £646,906 | 8% |
| Wokingham | £523,773 | -3% |
| Worcestershire | £325,226 | 4% |
| Wrekin | £236,212 | 11% |
| Wrexham | £210,636 | 2% |
| York | £339,827 | 15% |
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