House prices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compared with England

General information, not legal or financial advice. The figures below are the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) for August 2026, published by HM Land Registry with the Office for National Statistics, Registers of Scotland and Land and Property Services (LPS) Northern Ireland. They come from our data file data/region-prices.json (UK HPI full file 2026-08, retrieved 28 October 2026). The UK HPI is built from completed sales, not asking prices.

A worked example: Scotland's average is £95,128 below England's (£293,525 less £198,397), a gap of about 32%. Wales sits £77,162 below England and Northern Ireland £91,038 below. England's figure is pulled up by London, where the average was £554,430 in the same release, while every other English region was below £380,000.

Averages hide the mix of homes. In August 2026 the UK HPI average for each type was:

Two points stand out. Scottish detached homes averaged more than Welsh ones (£365,984 against £336,551), even though the all-property average is lower in Scotland. And in Northern Ireland a flat averaged £148,475, above the Scottish (£138,886) and Welsh (£130,206) flat figures, while its terraced average was the lowest of the four. The overall average depends on how many of each type are sold, which is why a like-for-like comparison needs the type breakdown.

The UK HPI uses transaction data from HM Land Registry for England and Wales, and from Registers of Scotland for Scotland. The Northern Ireland index is produced separately by LPS. It standardises for the mix of properties sold, using a hedonic regression with mix adjustment, and average prices use a geometric mean, which gives less weight to high-value sales than an ordinary average. GOV.UK notes that Scottish data includes corporate buyers and sellers, which the England and Wales data excludes. The first estimate for a month is provisional because registrations lag, and later revisions are usually downward.

To look up what an individual property sold for, GOV.UK's Search house prices service covers England and Wales, and points Scottish searches to ScotLIS and Northern Ireland searches to Land and Property Services. Our guide to where to find sold house prices compares the sources, and our sold prices tool shows Land Registry sales for England and Wales.

Use the nation average as context, not as the value of a home. Individual homes sit well above and below any average. For your own property, a postcode-level view from real sales is more useful, and our free house value check shows a range from Land Registry sold prices for England and Wales. The September 2026 UK HPI is due on 18 November 2026, so these figures will move.

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