HM Land Registry · April 2026

UK house prices, ranked

Name: UK house-price rankings by region and metro
Creator: PlainMortgage
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UK regions ranked by HM Land Registry average price, and the 16 metros ranked two ways: cheapest average versus lowest price-to-income. The two orders are not the same.

Data updated 2026-04

£552,655
dearest region: London: £163,190
cheapest region: North East: 3.4×
dearest-to-cheapest gap: 16
major cities tracked

Compiled by PlainMortgage · April 1, 2026

The picture

Glasgow has the lowest metro price-to-income in this extract at 5.66×, #1 of 16; Belfast is cheapest on average price at £181,033 but sits at 6.03×; Oxford is the most stretched at 11.32×, not London, even though London is the dearest average at £552,655.

5.66×
Glasgow (lowest price / income): £181,033
Belfast (cheapest average): 11.32×
Oxford (highest price / income): £552,655
London (dearest average)

Price-to-income is metro average price divided by recorded median household income. April 2026 HM Land Registry prices; income is a recorded median, not a lender test.

London

£552,655
South East

£376,819
East of England

£336,300
South West

£302,618
West Midlands

£250,625
East Midlands

£241,620
North West

£216,138
Wales

£212,489
Yorkshire and The Humber

£207,974
Scotland

£191,927
North East

£163,190

What this shows London and the South East stand far above the rest; the North East, Scotland and Northern Ireland sit at roughly a third of the London average, which is why the same deposit stretches three times further there.

Major cities: price versus income

The same 16 metros ranked by average price divided by recorded median household income (April 2026). Row 1 is the lowest ratio in this extract, not a personal lending decision. Price rank in the subtitle is cheapest-first, so it will not match this order when a cheaper city still has a higher multiple.

#	City	Average price	Price / income	Income needed
1	Glasgowprice rank 3 of 16	£186,853	5.66×	£37,000
2	Liverpoolprice rank 2 of 16	£183,615	5.74×	£37,000
3	Nottinghamprice rank 4 of 16	£192,543	5.83×	£39,000
4	Belfastprice rank 1 of 16	£181,033	6.03×	£36,000
5	Newcastleprice rank 5 of 16	£209,071	6.53×	£42,000
6	Sheffieldprice rank 6 of 16	£222,080	6.73×	£44,000
7	Leedsprice rank 8 of 16	£246,882	6.86×	£49,000
8	Manchesterprice rank 9 of 16	£247,344	6.87×	£49,000
9	Birminghamprice rank 7 of 16	£235,682	6.93×	£47,000
10	Edinburghprice rank 11 of 16	£295,204	7.38×	£58,000
11	Cardiffprice rank 10 of 16	£271,166	7.98×	£54,000
12	Bristolprice rank 12 of 16	£353,662	9.07×	£69,000
13	Brightonprice rank 13 of 16	£406,137	10.15×	£79,000
14	Londonprice rank 16 of 16	£552,655	10.43×	£104,000
15	Cambridgeprice rank 14 of 16	£462,145	10.50×	£88,000
16	Oxfordprice rank 15 of 16	£475,481	11.32×	£91,000

Using the rankings

Open a city page for the deposit, quoted-rate payment, and stress-test breakdown that sit behind each row.

Open any city for the deposit, mortgage and stress-tested payment breakdown on that metro page. Example: Manchester
The regional bar chart above is a different extract: HM Land Registry nation-or-region averages, not the metro price-to-income table. Regional research
See how today’s quoted rate compares with the last few years before you compare products. Rate & price trends

Average price masks within-area spread (a London average covers Hampstead and Barking alike); treat the ranking as a starting point, not a valuation.

According to the HM Land Registry House Price Index, the official series built on more than 1,000,000 registered property transactions a year, the regional averages and city prices above are mean completed-sale prices from the April 2026 release, not asking prices. Metro price-to-income divides that average by the recorded median household income in this extract; our methodology details every assumption.

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).