Methodology

Where the data comes from

RealScout is built on HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, which records every property sale registered in England and Wales. Because sold prices alone do not tell you how big a property is, we combine each sale with the floor area recorded in the property’s Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register.

How we compute price per square metre

For each matched sale we divide the sold price by the EPC floor area to get a price per square metre. We then aggregate these figures by area to produce the averages you see, and we show the underlying transactions so you can judge the evidence behind each number yourself. Square-foot figures are converted from the same underlying data (1 square metre = 10.7639 square feet). Every transaction we use is also downloadable as a free CSV from each area page — up to 60 months of sales per district.

Standard filters

To keep the averages meaningful, we apply standard filters:

• Full-market sales only (Land Registry category A) — repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio deals and other non-standard transfers are excluded.
• Registered residential property types only (detached, semi-detached, terraced houses and flats).
• Extreme values are excluded — implausibly high or low prices and floor areas that would distort the averages.

Coverage

Price Paid Data covers England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland record sales in separate registers that are not included in this dataset, so RealScout does not currently cover them.

How often the data is updated

We refresh our dataset periodically from the official releases. Land Registry publishes new and corrected transactions on a rolling basis, and there can be a lag of weeks or months between a sale completing and it appearing in the data.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the data come from?

From official open data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for sold prices, and the Energy Performance of Buildings Register for floor areas. Both are published by UK government bodies and updated regularly.

Why £ per square metre?

Headline sold prices mix up the value of an area with the size of the properties that happen to sell there. Dividing by floor area gives a like-for-like measure, so you can compare a street of small flats with a street of large houses on equal terms — the same way most of Europe already compares property.

How accurate is it?

The figures are computed from real registered sales, not asking prices or estimates. That said, they are area averages: any individual property can sell well above or below the local average depending on its condition, exact location and timing. Floor areas come from EPC assessments, which occasionally contain errors. Treat the figures as a well-founded reference point, not a valuation.

Why is my postcode missing?

Smaller areas can have too few matched sales to produce a reliable average — we would rather show nothing than a misleading number from a handful of transactions. Areas in Scotland and Northern Ireland are outside the dataset entirely, and very recent sales may not yet have reached the official releases.

Attribution

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Floor areas derived from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register (address data © Royal Mail). Contains ONS and OS data © Crown copyright and database right, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO.