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UK house prices by town, ranked

Average and median sold prices for towns across England and Wales, drawn from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. A simple, sourced view of where property costs the most and the least.

Last updated July 2026. Figures use a recent sample of transactions per town.

The 10 most expensive towns

#	Town	Average price	Median price
1	St Albans	£649,713	£525,000
2	Guildford	£593,719	£450,000
3	Chichester	£591,640	£400,000
4	Cambridge	£573,380	£460,000
5	Kettering	£566,150	£240,000
6	Woking	£549,099	£425,000
7	London	£547,608	£482,500
8	Tunbridge Wells	£523,551	£462,500
9	Bath	£520,420	£441,750
10	York	£500,874	£330,000

The 10 most affordable towns

#	Town	Average price	Median price
125	Middlesbrough	£145,784	£135,000
126	Blackpool	£146,823	£138,000
127	Darlington	£152,866	£140,000
128	Port Talbot	£154,263	£155,000
129	Gateshead	£159,281	£130,000
130	Grimsby	£160,921	£153,000
131	Barrow-in-Furness	£161,773	£137,500
132	Merthyr Tydfil	£164,478	£125,000
133	Scunthorpe	£167,646	£154,950
134	Stockton-on-Tees	£173,653	£169,950

Full ranking

Every town in the study, ordered by average sold price. Select a town for its recent sales and a breakdown by property type.

#	Town	Average price	Median price
1	St Albans	£649,713	£525,000
2	Guildford	£593,719	£450,000
3	Chichester	£591,640	£400,000
4	Cambridge	£573,380	£460,000
5	Kettering	£566,150	£240,000
6	Woking	£549,099	£425,000
7	London	£547,608	£482,500
8	Tunbridge Wells	£523,551	£462,500
9	Bath	£520,420	£441,750
10	York	£500,874	£330,000
11	Hove	£499,215	£410,000
12	Oxford	£493,682	£446,000
13	Cheltenham	£472,133	£400,000
14	High Wycombe	£470,903	£420,000
15	Reading	£457,809	£415,000
16	Watford	£439,718	£415,000
17	Slough	£434,733	£416,000
18	Aylesbury	£423,921	£380,000
19	Hemel Hempstead	£417,772	£411,000
20	Chelmsford	£415,008	£375,000
21	Solihull	£413,825	£340,000
22	Basingstoke	£406,647	£392,000
23	Brighton	£405,115	£377,500
24	Bedford	£395,788	£380,000
25	Maidstone	£395,150	£353,000
26	Bristol	£394,037	£362,500
27	Harrogate	£388,810	£360,000
28	Poole	£378,620	£343,000
29	Stevenage	£375,790	£357,000
30	Milton Keynes	£373,700	£365,000
31	Dartford	£369,788	£350,000
32	Gravesend	£364,217	£340,000
33	Worthing	£363,600	£365,000
34	Crawley	£363,495	£360,000
35	Colchester	£362,125	£330,000
36	Stockport	£361,183	£295,000
37	Truro	£361,061	£322,500
38	Macclesfield	£360,973	£325,000
39	Canterbury	£359,937	£323,000
40	Salisbury	£359,498	£335,000
41	Southend-on-Sea	£355,713	£325,000
42	Swindon	£350,658	£325,000
43	Bournemouth	£343,442	£325,000
44	Luton	£341,921	£327,000
45	Folkestone	£329,493	£305,000
46	Taunton	£328,517	£298,500
47	Chester	£324,922	£302,000
48	Shrewsbury	£323,825	£280,000
49	Southampton	£321,911	£300,000
50	Norwich	£320,271	£285,000
51	Exeter	£318,822	£290,000
52	Rugby	£318,038	£281,000
53	Northampton	£317,192	£285,000
54	Worcester	£316,398	£290,000
55	Cardiff	£313,532	£300,000
56	Basildon	£313,427	£300,000
57	Gillingham	£307,658	£285,000
58	Warrington	£306,958	£277,500
59	Eastbourne	£306,012	£285,000
60	Gloucester	£301,181	£280,000
61	Redditch	£295,675	£240,000
62	Barry	£290,722	£270,000
63	Dover	£284,405	£242,000
64	Hastings	£281,514	£250,000
65	Lancaster	£279,100	£210,000
66	Barnstaple	£279,067	£272,500
67	Newton Abbot	£277,942	£257,000
68	Nuneaton	£277,596	£260,000
69	Weymouth	£276,485	£260,000
70	Ipswich	£274,704	£245,000
71	Leicester	£274,214	£255,000
72	Carmarthen	£272,347	£240,000
73	Bridgend	£269,522	£245,000
74	Birmingham	£267,775	£230,000
75	Weston-super-Mare	£264,296	£257,500
76	Portsmouth	£262,349	£253,000
77	Tamworth	£261,376	£230,000
78	Nottingham	£260,280	£223,000
79	Peterborough	£259,150	£245,000
80	Manchester	£255,204	£245,000
81	Huddersfield	£252,305	£240,000
82	Wolverhampton	£249,158	£225,000
83	Yeovil	£247,410	£235,000
84	Coventry	£247,019	£243,000
85	Walsall	£245,564	£220,000
86	Newcastle upon Tyne	£244,331	£240,000
87	Salford	£243,946	£212,000
88	Stafford	£243,354	£225,000
89	Bury	£242,588	£215,000
90	Torquay	£242,287	£225,000
91	Derby	£241,234	£235,000
92	Wakefield	£240,962	£230,714
93	Newport	£237,587	£220,000
94	Plymouth	£236,258	£220,000
95	Preston	£234,116	£217,000
96	Lincoln	£229,319	£213,000
97	Crewe	£225,435	£195,000
98	Dudley	£218,451	£225,000
99	Oldham	£214,588	£179,950
100	Durham	£213,513	£170,000
101	Bolton	£211,408	£190,000
102	Leeds	£211,316	£200,000
103	Telford	£210,792	£185,000
104	Wrexham	£210,583	£180,000
105	Scarborough	£210,086	£182,500
106	Sheffield	£210,020	£217,000
107	Doncaster	£206,926	£183,000
108	Swansea	£206,125	£170,000
109	Stoke-on-Trent	£201,783	£175,000
110	Llanelli	£199,852	£166,000
111	Chesterfield	£199,458	£195,000
112	Barnsley	£199,058	£160,000
113	Liverpool	£196,587	£180,000
114	Halifax	£195,418	£170,000
115	Mansfield	£193,723	£185,000
116	Pontypridd	£192,664	£170,000
117	Rotherham	£192,087	£192,000
118	Carlisle	£187,540	£175,000
119	Neath	£187,441	£168,000
120	Blackburn	£185,543	£168,000
121	Rochdale	£183,937	£160,000
122	Sunderland	£182,084	£123,000
123	Wigan	£180,757	£182,000
124	Bradford	£176,692	£170,000
125	Stockton-on-Tees	£173,653	£169,950
126	Scunthorpe	£167,646	£154,950
127	Merthyr Tydfil	£164,478	£125,000
128	Barrow-in-Furness	£161,773	£137,500
129	Grimsby	£160,921	£153,000
130	Gateshead	£159,281	£130,000
131	Port Talbot	£154,263	£155,000
132	Darlington	£152,866	£140,000
133	Blackpool	£146,823	£138,000
134	Middlesbrough	£145,784	£135,000

Methodology

Prices come from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, the official record of property sales in England and Wales, published under the Open Government Licence. For each town we take a recent sample of transactions and report the average (mean) and the median sold price. The median is less affected by a handful of very high or very low sales, so the two figures together give a fairer picture than either alone. Towns with too few recent transactions to be meaningful are left out.

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