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England & Wales has one median per square metre, and its districts differ by more than an order of magnitude. How to judge a figure against the area it sits in.

Every price per square metre needs a floor area, and about a fifth of sold homes do not have one on record. Which homes are missing, whether they are different from the rest, and how that changed over thirty years.

Every price per square metre depends on the floor area from the EPC. What that total includes and excludes, and why district medians survive the errors.

One square metre is 10.7639 square feet, so £5,000/m² is £464/ft². Why UK listings quote feet while the data is metric, and where the conversion goes wrong.

One budget converted into floor space at every region’s median price per square metre, from the current sold-price record. The gap is wider than the price gap, and the table shows both.

Five measures of the same market, published in the same month, disagreeing. They are not competing estimates of one number: each counts a different population at a different stage of the sale. What each one is for.

The public record says what changed hands and for how much. It does not say what condition the home was in, whether the sale was at arm’s length, or how long the lease had left. The limits, and how large each one is.

A repeat-sales index for England & Wales, built from millions of properties that sold twice. It holds the mix constant, it publishes an interval on every point, and it disagrees with the headlines about which regions have done best.

The mean and the median answer different questions, and in small markets one £2,000,000 sale can pull them £40,000 apart. Why every headline figure here is a median.

A decade of rising prices can be a decade of falling value. What CPIH adjustment does to a house price trend, and which version answers which question.

Every England & Wales sale since 1995 is public: price, date, address, type, tenure. What Price Paid Data contains, its blind spots, and how to use it free.

The one number listings never show: median price per square metre. How to compare an asking price to your district’s median, from HM Land Registry sold prices.

Beyond the price: the two costs fixed by statute, computed at the median sold price in every region, and the four that are not fixed and what drives them. England and Wales are taxed differently, and the difference is large.

Floor area times the median price per square metre in your postcode district, read against the middle 60% of local sales. The arithmetic, and what it cannot see.

Find the floor area on the EPC, divide, and read the result against the district median and middle 60% from HM Land Registry sold prices. Worked on E16 and BR1.

In Battersea a freehold square metre costs more than a leasehold one; in Canning Town the gap runs the other way. What tenure does to price per square metre.

What buyers pay for a new build over an equivalent resale per square metre, where that premium comes from, and why it fades once the home is sold on.

The median price per square metre in every London district: which areas are cheapest, which have risen over ten years, and why prime London has gone backwards.

A five-step comparison that stays honest: same measure, same window, same tenure, per square metre. Worked through on BR1 versus E16 with the current figures.

Which postcode districts cost the most, and the least, per square metre of home, from HM Land Registry sold prices matched to EPC floor areas. Updated monthly.

Median price per square metre for every region of England & Wales, the ten-year change, and districts from both ends of the range.