Browse UK Metros

The 16 major UK cities and metropolitan areas tracked by PlainMortgage, with average house price from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. The household-income figure is an illustrative default for affordability examples, not sourced earnings data.

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Metro Region Average price Illustrative income Typical deposit
Belfast NIR £181,033 £30,000 10%
Birmingham WM £235,682 £34,000 10%
Brighton SE £406,137 £40,000 12%
Bristol SW £353,662 £39,000 12%
Cambridge EE £462,145 £44,000 14%
Cardiff WAL £271,166 £34,000 10%
Edinburgh SCO £295,204 £40,000 12%
Glasgow SCO £186,853 £33,000 10%
Leeds YH £246,882 £36,000 10%
Liverpool NW £183,615 £32,000 10%
London LDN £552,655 £53,000 15%
Manchester NW £247,344 £36,000 10%
Newcastle NE £209,071 £32,000 10%
Nottingham EM £192,543 £33,000 10%
Oxford SE £475,481 £42,000 14%
Sheffield YH £222,080 £33,000 10%

According to the HM Land Registry House Price Index, which draws on more than 1,000,000 registered property transactions a year, the average prices shown here track completed sales rather than asking prices. We pair that source with the Bank of England's quoted mortgage rates, both published under the Open Government Licence; our full methodology sets out exactly how each figure is derived.

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Download the UK metro price-to-income snapshot cited on this page: uk-metro-price-to-income.csv (CC BY 4.0 for this derived file; Bank of England and HM Land Registry source tables remain OGL).

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