{"id":"uk-house-price-index","title":"UK House Price Index — Average Price by Local Authority","description":"The official average house price for every UK local authority, from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (UKHPI). Each record is a real local authority with its latest-month average price, 12-month percentage change and average price broken down by property type (detached, semi-detached, terraced and flat) — the canonical statistics used to compare housing costs and price growth across the country.","url":"https://gerarent.com/data/uk-house-price-index","csvUrl":"https://gerarent.com/data/uk-house-price-index/sample.csv","coverage":"United Kingdom — average house price by local authority district","spatialCoverage":"United Kingdom","temporalCoverage":"2026-04","rowCount":360,"rowUnit":"local authorities","provenance":{"source":"HM Land Registry — UK House Price Index (UKHPI)","sourceUrl":"https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi","publisher":"HM Land Registry (with ONS, Registers of Scotland and Land & Property Services NI)","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","asOf":"April 2026","modified":null},"methodology":"Every row is read verbatim from the official UKHPI full-file CSV for the latest published month (April 2026). Average price, 12-month change and the property-type average prices are the values published by HM Land Registry for each local authority; no figure is estimated. English local authorities are joined to their parent region using the ONS Local Authority District to Region lookup; Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish authorities take their country as region. Headline key figures (most/least expensive authority, fastest annual growth) are computed directly from these rows.","keyFigures":[{"label":"UK average price","value":"£270,080","note":"3.8% over 12 months"},{"label":"Local authorities","value":"360","note":"14 region/country aggregates"},{"label":"Most expensive authority","value":"Kensington and Chelsea","note":"£1,272,760 average"},{"label":"Fastest annual growth","value":"Orkney Islands","note":"+28.4% over 12 months"}],"columns":[{"name":"areaCode","description":"ONS GSS area code (e.g. E06000001)"},{"name":"area","description":"Local authority / district name"},{"name":"region","description":"Parent region (England) or country (Wales/Scotland/NI)"},{"name":"avgPrice","description":"Average house price in GBP (latest month)"},{"name":"pct12m","description":"12-month percentage change in average price"}],"sampleRows":[{"areaCode":"S12000034","area":"Aberdeenshire","region":"Scotland","avgPrice":197504,"pct12m":1.4},{"areaCode":"E07000223","area":"Adur","region":"South East","avgPrice":355669,"pct12m":-3},{"areaCode":"E07000032","area":"Amber Valley","region":"East Midlands","avgPrice":235323,"pct12m":5.7},{"areaCode":"S12000041","area":"Angus","region":"Scotland","avgPrice":170381,"pct12m":3.8},{"areaCode":"N09000001","area":"Antrim and Newtownabbey","region":"Northern Ireland","avgPrice":201134,"pct12m":6},{"areaCode":"N09000011","area":"Ards and North Down","region":"Northern Ireland","avgPrice":225552,"pct12m":7.7}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraRent; cite the original publisher above."}