The UK Property Market

The UK Property Market

Stats for Week 45 of 2025

 New Listings
 
• 26.1k new properties came to market this week, down as expected from 27.1k last week.
• 2025 weekly average: 35.6k.
• 9 year week 45 average : 27.6k
• Year-to-date (YTD): 1.59m new listings, 1.1% higher than 2024 YTD (1.57m) and 8.2% above the 2017–19 average (1.46m)

 

 Price Reductions
 
16.7k reductions this week, lower than last week’s at 18.5k (Estate Agents seem to forget they can reduce houses prices after the first week in November!)
• 12.8% of resi homes for sale were reduced in October. Compared to Sept 14.1%, August 11.1%, July 14.1% in July and 14% in June. 
• 2025 average still remains at 13.2%, versus the five-year long-term average of 10.74%.

 

 Sales Agreed
 
22.9k homes sold subject to contract this week, up unexpectedly from 22.5k last week.
• Week 45 average (for last 9 years) :22.9k
• 2025 weekly average : 26k.
• YTD: 1.162m gross sales, which is 3.8% ahead of 2024 (1.119m) and 12.3% above the 2017–19 average (1.034m).
• Best week for Resi sales in Inner London since May 2025. 1,658 homes sold stc last week. To compare, 1,293 was the weekly average for Resi sales in October 2025 and the weekly average for the whole year has been 1,403 sale agreed per week 

 

 Price Diff between Listings & Sales
 
• Average Asking Price of listings last week £387k vs Average asking price of Sales Agreed (SSTC) - £363k  - a 6.5% difference (long term 9 year average is 16% to 17%)
• The average listing price was £452k in Sept and £415k in October.. ie fewer expensive homes being listed. Is that because of the Budget ???

 

 Sell-Through Rate 
 
• 15% of homes on agents’ books went SSTC in October. Up from 14.1% in Sept, 14.5% in Aug, 15.4% in July, 15.3% in June, and 16.1% in May.
• Pre-Covid average: 15.5%.

 

 Fall-Throughs
 
• 5,802 fall-throughs last week (pipeline of 510k home Sold STC).
• Weekly average for 2025: 6,173.
• Fall-through rate: 25.4%, slightly down from 26.5% last week.
• Long-term average: 24.2% (post-Truss chaos saw levels exceed 40%).

 

 Net Sales
 
17.1k net sales this week, up unexpectedly from 16.6k last week.
• Nine-year Week 45 average: 16.8k.
• Weekly average for 2025: 19.7k.
• YTD: 884k, which is 3.3% ahead of 2024 (856k) and 9.2% above 2017–19 (810k).

 

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