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Land Registry's monthly Market Trend Data for residential property prices in England and Wales.

The September data shows an annual price increase of 5.3 per cent which takes the average property value in England and Wales to £186,553. Monthly house prices up 1.0 per cent since August 2015.

The regional data indicates that:

• the region with the most significant annual price increase is London with a movement of 9.6 per cent
• London experienced the greatest monthly rise with a movement of 1.8 per cent
• the North East saw the only annual price decrease with a movement of -0.3 per cent
• the North East also saw the most significant monthly price decrease with a fall of 0.3 per cent

Sales and repossessions during July 2015, the most up-to-date figures available, show that:

• the number of completed house sales in England and Wales decreased by 4 per cent to 81,696 compared with 84,691 in July 2014
• the number of properties sold in England and Wales for over £1 million decreased by 9 per cent to 1,413 from 1,555 a year earlier
• repossessions in England and Wales decreased by 50 per cent to 471 compared with 943 in July 2014
• the region with the greatest fall in the number of repossession sales was London

Access the full September HPI report.

Average price by property type 2015 to 2014

Sales volumes 2014 to 2013

Sales volumes 2015 to 2014

Repossessions by region 2015 to 2014

The Price Paid Data includes details of over 93,000 residential property sales in England and Wales lodged for registration in September 2015.

The most expensive sale in September 2015 was in Knightsbridge, London SW1 (£17.5m). The cheapest sale in September 2015 was in Pendle, Lancashire (£12,000).

Access the full dataset

Notes to editors

1. Market Trend Data is published on the twentieth working day of each month. The October House Price Index (HPI) will be published at 9.30am on Friday 27 November 2015. Price Paid Data is published at 11am on the same day.

2. A calendar with release dates of the headline figure and the full HPI is available.

3. The HPI uses a sample size that is larger than all other statistical measures available. It is calculated using Land Registry’s dataset of all single residential property sales completed in England and Wales since January 1995 subject to exclusions.

4. Land Registry’s dataset contains details on over 19 million residential transactions. Of these, over 7 million are identifiable matched pairs, providing the basis for the repeat sales regression analysis used to complete the index. This technique of quality adjustment ensures an “apples to apples” comparison between properties.

5. The adjusted headline statistics for England and Wales on p14 of the monthly HPI report include additional repossession data.

6. The repossession data is based on the number of transactions lodged with Land Registry by lenders exercising their power of sale. Once we have identified these transactions, we extract the price paid information from the related register entry.

7. Although the HPI goes back to January 1995, we have only been recording repossessions comprehensively since 2006. This means that historic repossession data is not available prior to January 2006. See repossession data for more information.

8. HPI background tables are available as Open Data in Excel and CSV formats and in machine readable format as linked data. They are available for free use and re-use under the Open Government Licence (OGL).

9. Price Paid Data is residential property price data for all the residential property sales in England and Wales that are lodged with us for registration in that month.The following information is available for each property:
   • the full address
   • the price paid
   • the date of transfer
   • the property type
   • whether it is new build or not
   • whether it is freehold or leasehold

10. Download Price Paid Data in txt, csv format and in a machine readable format as linked data. It is available for anyone to examine or re-use free of charge under the OGL.

11. From next month (October 2015 data) Price Paid Data will include Standard Price Paid Data (SPPD) for single residential property sales at full market value and Additional Price Paid Data (APPD) for transactions previously excluded from SPPD such as:
    • transfers to a non-private individual, for example a company, corporate body or business
    • transfers under a power of sale
    • repossessions
    • buy-to-lets (where they can be identified by a mortgage)

12. As a government department established in 1862, executive agency and trading fund responsible to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Land Registry keeps and maintains the Land Register for England and Wales. The Land Register has been open to public inspection since 1990.

13. With the largest transactional database of its kind detailing over 24 million titles, Land Registry underpins the economy by safeguarding ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property.

14. For further information about Land Registry visit www.gov.uk/land-registry

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