How much is my house worth? Start from what similar homes actually sold for
HM Land Registry sold prices for 2,322 postcode districts, by property type, with the steps that turn a district median into a figure for your own home.
Get a starting figure
This gives you the median price that homes of your type actually sold for in your postcode district in the last twelve months, from HM Land Registry’s complete record of sales — not an algorithm’s guess, and not an agent’s pitch. It is the honest starting point; the steps below turn it into a figure for your own home.
From district median to your house
- Find the closest sales. The Land Registry price paid search lists every sale by street and date. Three to five sales of the same type on your street or the next one, within a year, are worth more than any national index.
- Adjust for size. Sale prices scale with floor area more than anything else. Your EPC (free on the register) states the floor area in square metres; compare it with the sold homes’ certificates and adjust pro rata, then soften the result — buyers do not pay strictly per metre.
- Adjust for the date. A sale eighteen months ago needs bringing forward. Use the district’s year-on-year change shown above, or the local-authority house price index on the area pages.
- Condition, extensions, parking, outside space move a home within the district’s middle-half range rather than outside it. A loft conversion or a second bathroom counts; a new kitchen mostly does not add what it cost.
- Check the ceiling. The most expensive recent sale in the district (on the district page) is a hard reference: it takes something exceptional to sell above it.
Why online valuations disagree
Portal estimates model a price from the sold record plus listing data; two tools can differ by 10–15% on the same house because they weight age and size differently and because asking prices, which they also see, run 3–6% above what is achieved. An estate agent’s valuation is a marketing number chosen to win the instruction; three agents will give three figures, and the highest is rarely the one you sell at. Sold prices are the only figures that involved real money.
If you are a landlord
Whether you are buying, refinancing or selling, the same district figures feed the yield calculator, the mortgage stress test and — on a sale — the capital gains tax calculator, where the gain is measured against what you paid, not what you think it is worth. Remortgaging a buy-to-let, the lender’s surveyor will value from the same sold comparables; walking in with three matching sales saves a down-valuation argument.
Browse by area
Sold house prices by postcode lists every district; the council tax band checker shows the bands on the same pages.
Sources
Open data this page is built from; figures are recomputed each time the site is rebuilt.
- Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax: stock of properties, 2025 — table CTSOP4.1, dwellings by band and build period at 31 March 2025, weighted from statistical areas into postcode districts
- HM Land Registry — Price Paid Data — standard sales registered to 31 July 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
- ONS — Postcode Directory, August 2026 — live postcodes, statistical areas and local authorities. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026
- Council tax charges 2026/27 — MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax levels, as used on this site’s council pages
- VOA — check your council tax band — the official per-address lookup
Asked about this postcode
It is exactly what similar homes sold for, but it is a district figure: your own home can sit anywhere in the middle-half range shown, or outside it if it is unusual. Street-level sales and floor area narrow it down.
It is a free, data-only starting point from HM Land Registry sold prices. It is not a surveyor’s valuation and not advice on what to ask.
Fewer than three homes of that type sold in the district in the last twelve months, so the page falls back to the all-types median.
Twelve months to the latest Land Registry release; sales take weeks to register, so the newest month is always incomplete.
No — HM Land Registry data covers England and Wales. Registers of Scotland publishes Scottish sales.