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