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House Price Index

The e.surv Acadata E&W HPI is based on every residential property transaction in England and Wales, and is designed to provide a true measure of house price inflation.

In 2003, Acadata pioneered use of Land Registry (LR) data for a mainstream house price index, launched by the Financial Times as the FTHPI. In 2010, LSL Property Services plc assumed the preparation costs from Acadata, rebranding the index as the LSL Property Services/Acadata HPI (now e.surv Acadata HPI (England and Wales)) and Your Move Acadata Scotland HPI (now Walker Fraser Steele Acadata HPI (Scotland)). The Principality HPI for Wales was also launched in 2017.

Whilst the Land Registry (LR) is the only source of the final prices at which residential property is sold (including properties bought with cash- which are excluded from mortgage-based data), the problem exists that only c.38% of sales are reported in a timely fashion to the LR. These “emerging” data are insufficient to be definitive, which meant that LR data were long regarded as too “untimely” to be useful. Acadata resolved this problem using a custom-built “index of indices” methodology developed by Dr Stephen Satchell at the University of Cambridge and Dr George Christodoulakis, then at City University. The model provides the emerging % Monthly change to the average house price for both the current month and the month ahead. These are used in our e.surv Acadata E&W HPI initial release issued shortly after each month end.

Key Statistics

October Key e.surv Acadata HPI (England and Wales) Statistics

Index
347.6

Average House Price
£362,777

Monthly Change
-0.4%

Annual Change
-4.1%

Main points

Average house prices continue to fall in October

  • Cash and mortgage data show average prices now falling by an annual -4.1%
  • But some hot spots remain – City of Westminster up by 13.6%
  • Transactions still trailing 2022 levels

September Key Walker Fraser Steele Acadata HPI (Scotland) Statistics

Index
294.0

Average House Price
£224,497

Monthly Change
0.4%

Annual Change
1.0%

Main Points

Average prices in September up by £965 in month

  • Prices grow £2,260 over year compared to England and Wales -£12,750
  • Transactions are 13% lower than in 2022
  • Glasgow has highest (mainland) % price increase since pandemic start