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Property price, private rent and household statistics.

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UK House Price Index: May 2022

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  • UK average house prices increased by 12.8% over the year to May 2022, up from 11.9% in April 2022.
  • The average UK house price was £283,000 in May 2022, which is £32,000 higher than this time last year.
  • Average house prices increased over the year in England to £302,000 (13.1%), in Wales to £212,000 (14.4%), in Scotland to £188,000 (11.2%) and in Northern Ireland to £165,000 (10.4%).
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House price statistics for small areas in England and Wales: year ending December 2021

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  • The median price paid for residential properties in Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in England ranged from £26,000 (within Sunderland) to £4,800,000 (within Kensington and Chelsea) in the year ending December 2021.
  • The median price paid for residential properties in LSOAs in Wales ranged from £60,000 (within Blaenau Gwent) to £650,000 (within Vale of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire) in the year ending December 2021.
  • The number of residential property sales in England increased by 20.5% to 821,407 between the year ending December 2020 and the year ending December 2021; the number of residential property sales in Wales increased by 23.4% to 43,557 over the same period.
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