The average price of a home in City of Westminster in July 2026 was £876,788 — 20.7% lower than in July 2025, when it was £1,106,346. Land Registry may still restate the July 2026 figure.

One release carried new data this morning and both of today's items come from it: HM Land Registry published the July 2026 UK House Price Index, and it entered our archive today. On 20 August, reporting the June figures, we said we had opened a file on the central London falls and would report what the July release did to them. This edition is that report. The falls persist for a third release running: every one of the five largest 12-month falls in the July table is an inner London borough — Westminster down 20.7 per cent, the City of London down 17.4, Tower Hamlets down 14.4, Kensington and Chelsea down 14.1, Camden down 10.1 — while 58 of the 349 Great Britain local authorities the index covers recorded their highest average price in the history we hold, 62 having done so in June. The index is diverging, not falling. These figures are provisional and the index is computed from registered transactions, so a small number of very large sales can move a borough's average; that caution is why this finding waited on our shelf through three monthly releases before leading.

A note for anyone who read the edition of 20 August. It reported Westminster's June average as £854,198, down 25.4 per cent on a year earlier. The Land Registry recalculates its previous twelve months at every release as late registrations arrive, and the July release restates June at £867,665, down 24.2 per cent. The fall is a point shallower and remains the deepest in the June table, so the figure has moved and the finding has not. The restatement covers 7,867 figures across 366 areas, all inside the publisher's twelve-month revision window, and is set out in full in our corrections log.

Everything else we checked this morning — the prison bulletins, the port and airport tables, the claimant count — came back byte-for-byte identical to the copies we already hold. Our collection of NHS England's waiting-times pages failed again today: the pages have changed shape for the second time in a week, so that dataset is out of today's edition entirely and the July waiting-times figures we reported on 10 September stand unchanged. We do not guess through a failed collection; the pages will be read again once a human has checked the new format.