England & Wales · 1995–2026

UK house prices: what a home really costs.

Prices always look like they only rise. Adjust for inflation and the story changes — we show both, from the official record, street by street.

Median today
£157,000
Explore your area → How we adjust for inflation
2026
Cash price Today’s money (real)
01 — Price per m²

The same price. Half the home.

A headline price hides how much you actually get. We divide sold price by floor area — from EPC records — so you compare like for like. Portals don’t.

A flat in a prime postcode
£450,000 · 68 m²
£6,618/m²
A terrace one town over
£450,000 · 112 m²
£4,018/m²

Same money, 65% more space — and a third off the price you pay per square metre.

02 — Budget explorer

What will your budget buy?

Drag the slider. Places where the median home is within reach light up — the rest fade. Discovery, not just search.

Your budget
£275,000
13
of 24 areas within reach
£100,000£700,000+
Burnley
£95,000
Hull
£120,000
Sunderland
£130,000
Stoke-on-Trent
£135,000
Bradford
£145,000
Doncaster
£152,000
Liverpool
£168,000
Sheffield
£188,000
Leeds
£208,000
Nottingham
£212,000
Manchester
£235,000
Leicester
£242,000
Birmingham
£248,000
York
£322,000
Harrogate
£342,000
Bristol
£358,000
Reading
£378,000
Brighton
£428,000
Bath
£482,000
Cambridge
£505,000
Oxford
£528,000
Guildford
£565,000
London
£572,000
St Albans
£625,000
03 — Compare

Two places, side by side.

Pick any two areas and see where your money goes further — price, space, and how fast each has grown.

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04 — Repeat sales

Did this house beat the market?

When a home sells more than once, the record shows exactly what it earned — and whether it genuinely grew, merely kept pace with inflation, or lagged its own street. No portal tells you this.

Cash gain
+42%
After inflation (real)
+18%
The local market did
+25%

After inflation, this home gained +18% — real growth, not just a bigger number. But its street did +25%, so it lagged the local market by 7 points.

05 — Trust

Built on public data. Nothing hidden.

No estimates, no listings, no black box. Every figure traces back to an official source — and every page shows how many sales it’s built on, and when it last changed.

Read the full method →
01
HM Land Registry — Price Paid Data
Every recorded sale, 1995 to now
02
Energy Performance Certificates
Floor area, for honest £/m²
03
ONS Postcode Directory
Street and area geography
04
ONS CPIH
Inflation, for real-terms prices