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Where to find sold house prices: Land Registry, portals and local tools compared

Where to find sold house prices in England and Wales: HM Land Registry, GOV.UK, Rightmove, Zoopla and local tools compared on freshness, coverage and cost.

4 min read
Last reviewed 4 November 2026
By Your Property Check team

Part 1 of 7

The sources side by side

Almost every sold price you will see online starts at one place: HM Land Registry. The sources differ in how they present it, how quickly they refresh it and what else they add. This page covers England and Wales. We read each page named here on 4 November 2026, and each row says only what that organisation states itself.

Source	What it shows	How fresh	Covers	Cost
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data	Every sale for value lodged for registration, as a downloadable dataset	Monthly, on the 20th working day	England and Wales	Free, under the Open Government Licence
GOV.UK Search house prices	The sold price of a property, found by address	The page does not say	England and Wales	No charge stated on the page
GOV.UK title register	The register for one property, including its last sale price	The register at the time you buy it	England and Wales	£7
Rightmove	Sold price history, photos and floorplans from the last listing, area averages	Within a few weeks of the registry update, it says	England and Wales, and Scotland via Registers of Scotland	No charge stated on the page
Zoopla	Sold prices by home, street, postcode, town or city	Monthly	UK, it says	No charge stated on the page
Our sold prices pages	Recorded sales by postcode area, built from Price Paid Data	Check the date shown on each page	England and Wales	Free

Part 2 of 7

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data

This is the source. GOV.UK says it covers all property sales in England and Wales that are sold for value and lodged with HM Land Registry for registration, from 1 January 1995. The data is updated on the 20th working day of each month, and the latest update listed, on 28 October 2026, added September 2026. It is released under the Open Government Licence v3.0, so anyone can reuse it with the right attribution.

GOV.UK says some sales are left out: those not lodged for registration, those not made for value, and certain transfers such as gifts, court orders and compulsory purchases. It also separates standard entries from additional ones, which include repossessions and some transfers to non-private individuals.

Part 3 of 7

GOV.UK search and the title register

GOV.UK's Search house prices service lets you look up what a property sold for by address, and it runs on the same registry data. It covers England and Wales. For Scotland it points to ScotLIS, and for Northern Ireland to Land and Property Services.

If you want the legal record for one property, the title register on GOV.UK shows the last price paid and costs £7. A property summary is free but does not include the price.

Part 4 of 7

Property portals

Rightmove says its sold price history is sourced direct from HM Land Registry or Registers of Scotland, and that it typically updates within a few weeks of the registry. It also notes that registration delays mean the two most recent months are incomplete. Zoopla says its sold prices are updated every month with official registry data, and that a sale is only recorded once it completes. Portals add photos, floorplans and area averages that the raw dataset does not hold, which is their main benefit.

Part 5 of 7

Why a recent sale may be missing

GOV.UK's guidance on the data gives the reasons:

The sale has not yet been registered. GOV.UK says the gap between sale and registration typically ranges from 2 weeks to 2 months, so the latest two months are incomplete.
The gap was longer than two months, which GOV.UK says happens occasionally.
The transfer falls into an excluded category, such as a gift or a sale not made for value.

If a sale still looks missing, GOV.UK says you can report it through its change a sales record form, which needs the postcode and sale date.

Part 6 of 7

What the registered price means

The price in the dataset is the sale price stated on the transfer deed, according to GOV.UK. Where a deed separates the price from VAT, only the amount excluding VAT is recorded. It is a record of what was paid, not a valuation of what a similar home would fetch today. Condition, size, garden and market timing all change the answer, so treat a sold price as evidence for a range, not a promise.

Part 7 of 7

Which source to use

To check one street quickly: a portal or our sold prices tool, which show many sales at once.
To see the official record for one address: GOV.UK Search house prices.
To prove who owns a property and what it last sold for: the £7 title register. Our guide to Land Registry searches explains the options.
To analyse a whole area yourself: download the monthly Price Paid Data.

Because the sources share one origin, checking two of them mainly confirms the date and the address match. The more useful step is comparing several recent sales of similar homes, then reading our guide on how to find out how much your house is worth.

This page is general information, not advice.

Our take

Compare several recent sales, not one number

Almost every sold price starts with HM Land Registry, so checking two portals mostly confirms the same record. The more useful step is comparing several recent sales of similar homes. The common mistake is to treat one sold price as a valuation, when condition, size and timing all change the answer.

Our free sold prices tool shows real Land Registry transactions for any postcode. Our house value check turns them into an honest value range, with the comparable sales and the working shown.

See sold prices

Our opinion, drawn from the facts on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

Where can I see what houses sold for?

HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data for England and Wales every month. You can search it on GOV.UK by address, view it on portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla, or use a local tool like our sold prices pages.

Is Land Registry data complete?

Not entirely. GOV.UK says it covers sales for value that were lodged for registration. Sales not lodged, gifts, court orders and some other transfers are excluded, and the latest two months are incomplete.

Why is a recent sale missing from sold prices?

Usually because it has not been registered yet. GOV.UK says the gap between sale and registration typically ranges from 2 weeks to 2 months. Occasionally it is longer, and some transfers are excluded altogether.

What is a registered price?

It is the sale price stated on the transfer deed, as recorded by HM Land Registry. Where VAT is shown separately, only the amount excluding VAT is kept. It records what was paid, not today's value.

Do sold prices cover Scotland and Northern Ireland?

The Land Registry data covers England and Wales only. GOV.UK points to ScotLIS for Scotland and Land and Property Services for Northern Ireland. Rightmove says its sold data covers Scotland but not Northern Ireland.

Where this comes from

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Last reviewed 4 November 2026 by the Your Property Check team. This page is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. For your own situation, speak to a conveyancing solicitor or another qualified professional.