House sales per year
The number of standard home sales in each calendar year, counted by Open Index from HM Land Registry's Price Paid Data.
Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Published by
- HM Land Registry
- Level of detail
- Neighbourhood
- Published for
- Council, Middle area and Neighbourhood
- Covers
- England and Wales
- Updates
- Monthly
- Latest period
- 2025
- Published
- 28 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- England
- Wales
- Scotland(not covered)
- Northern Ireland(not covered)
Price Paid Data covers England and Wales. Sales in Scotland are registered by Registers of Scotland.
Price Paid Data covers England and Wales. Sales in Northern Ireland are recorded by Land & Property Services.
- England33,755 of 33,755 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Wales1,917 of 1,917 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Scotland0 of 7,392 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Northern Ireland0 of 3,780 neighbourhoods have a figure
1,000 neighbourhoods have no figure for 2025. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- Price Paid Data covers England and Wales. Sales in Northern Ireland are recorded by Land & Property Services. Dunsilly A1, Dunsilly B1, Dunsilly A2, Dunsilly A3, Dunsilly B2, Dunsilly A4 and 994 more
How it is made
Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Each standard sale in Price Paid Data is placed in the neighbourhood, middle area and council that hold its postcode's centre point in the ONS Postcode Directory, and counted in the calendar year of its transfer. Every level counts the same sales, so neighbourhoods add up to their council.
Counts for larger areas are added up from neighbourhoods.
Zoom in past neighbourhood level and the map keeps the neighbourhood shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- Council1995 to 2025 (31 years)
- Middle area1995 to 2025 (31 years)
- Neighbourhood1995 to 2025 (31 years)
Before you use it
- Only standard sales are counted, homes sold for their full value. Repossessions, buy-to-let purchases with a mortgage, sales to companies and other property types are left out.
- Sales take weeks or months to be registered, so the latest year may still rise a little. A year appears once it is complete.
- Sales mostly follow how many homes an area has, and new estates make small areas jump. Compare areas by price, not by number of sales.
- Each sale is placed by the centre of its postcode, so a sale near a boundary can land in the next area.
- This counts sales by the year they completed. The UK House Price Index counts by month and includes Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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:
2,279 homes were sold in Hackney in 2025.
Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Source and licence
- Edition
- pp-complete.csv 2026-08
- Published
- 28 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
- Address fields come from Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey. They may be shown only to give property price information, and are never resold.
Credit the calculation as: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.