The edition of 20 August 2026
The average price of a home in Northumberland in June 2026 was £213,452 — 12.6% higher than in June 2025, when it was £189,585. Land Registry may still restate the June 2026 figure.
The whole record for Northumberland or the Land Registry file this came from.
£213,452
Average price of a home in Northumberland, June 2026
The publisher marks this period provisional; it will be revised.
One release carried new data this morning, and both of today's items come from it: HM Land Registry published the June 2026 UK House Price Index yesterday, and it entered our archive today. The June table points two ways at once. 62 of the 349 Great Britain local authorities it covers recorded their highest average price in the history we hold — Northumberland's record comes with the joint-largest 12-month rise in the table — while every one of the five largest falls is an inner London borough: Westminster down 25.4 per cent, the City of London down 20.4, Kensington and Chelsea down 14.7, Hammersmith and Fulham down 13.3, Tower Hamlets down 13.1. These recent London figures are provisional and this index is computed from registered transactions, so a small number of very large sales can move a borough's average; we have opened a file on those falls and will report what the July release does to them.
A note for anyone who read the edition of 13 August. It reported Kensington and Chelsea's May average as £1,255,567, down 10.7 per cent on a year earlier. The Land Registry recalculates its previous twelve months at every release as late registrations arrive, and the June release restates May at £1,262,938, down 10.2 per cent. Kensington and Chelsea was and remains the highest-priced of the 349 authorities, so the figure has moved and the finding has not. The restatement covers 7,889 figures across 366 areas, all inside the publisher's twelve-month revision window, and is set out in full in our corrections log.
Two datasets were dropped from today and nothing in this edition rests on either. The claimant count failed a step in our own archiving software — the publisher's file was fetched and is unchanged from the 18th. The statutory homelessness tables were published by MHCLG this morning in a revised format our parser does not yet recognise, so it stopped rather than guess; that release includes the January-to-March 2026 quarter, which we will read and report once the new format has been checked by a human. The Ministry of Justice's August prison bulletin has still not appeared, and its usual publication window closed today.
Also in the data
The average price of a home in City of Westminster in June 2026 was £854,198 — 25.4% lower than in June 2025, when it was £1,144,822. Land Registry may still restate the June 2026 figure.
The whole record for City of Westminster or the Land Registry file this came from.
How this edition was checked
| Place | Data vintage | Verification | Publisher’s file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northumberland | 2026-08-20 | Survived a blind kill attempt | the file |
| City of Westminster | 2026-08-20 | Survived a blind kill attempt | the file |
Each claim above was put to a separate agent with only the figures and the publisher’s dataset notes — not the reasoning that chose it — which tried to kill it on the wrong column, the wrong denominator, a series break, a definition change or a revision. Nothing that failed is on this page. The archived copy of each publisher’s file is in this site’s repository under data/house-prices/raw/2026-08-20/.
From the shelf
Central London average prices are falling by double digits while most of Great Britain sets records
A story we had been watching before today. Developing threads are kept as dossiers with a written trigger — the condition, agreed in advance, that would make them worth publishing — so that what we thought before we knew stays on the record.