House sales per month
The number of home sales recorded each month, from the UK House Price Index.
- Published by
- HM Land Registry and partners
- Level of detail
- Council
- Published for
- United Kingdom, Nation, Region and Council
- Covers
- All four nations
- Updates
- Monthly
- Latest period
- May 2026
- Published
- 16 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- England
- Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- England295 of 296 councils have a figure
- Wales22 of 22 councils have a figure
- Scotland32 of 32 councils have a figure
- Northern Ireland11 of 11 councils have a figure
1 council has no figure for May 2026. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- The UK House Price Index leaves out the Isles of Scilly because it has very few sales each month. Isles of Scilly
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as HM Land Registry and partners publishes them, for the areas they were published for: the UK, nations, regions and councils.
Counts for larger areas are added up from councils.
Zoom in past council level and the map keeps the council shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- United KingdomJanuary 2005 to May 2026 (257 months)
- NationJanuary 1995 to May 2026 (377 months)
- RegionJanuary 1995 to May 2026 (377 months)
- CouncilJanuary 1995 to May 2026 (377 months)
Before you use it
- The latest months are incomplete. Sales take weeks or months to reach the land registers, so HM Land Registry holds back the two most recent months and revises the months before them as more sales are registered. A first estimate uses about 40% of the sales that will end up registered, and a third estimate about 85%.
- Months in the 12 that HM Land Registry revises are marked provisional.
- Sales mostly follow how many homes an area has. Compare areas by price, not by number of sales.
- Figures come from HM Land Registry (England and Wales), Registers of Scotland and tax records (Northern Ireland). Northern Ireland is quarterly, so the same figure repeats for every month of a quarter.
- Councils add up to their nation and to the UK within a few sales, because the figures are rounded.
- Figures start in January 1995 for England and Wales, January 2004 for Scotland and January 2005 for Northern Ireland and the UK.
Colours on the map
Seven groups with about the same number of areas each, worked out from the latest period and held for every period, so colours mean the same over time.
How Open Index describes it
Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Hackney:
96 home sales were recorded in Hackney in May 2026.
Figures for the latest months are revised as more sales are registered.
Source and licence
- Edition
- Average-prices-2026-07.csv + UK-HPI-full-file-2026-07.csv
- Published
- 16 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0