UK Property Market Stats Show Week 9 2026

Описание: UK Property Market Update

The headlines for the 9th week of the 2026 UK Property Market (week ending Sun 8th March 2026)


🟩 Listings YTD
322k new properties have come onto the market YTD , 1% ahead of 2025, 9% above 2024, and 20% higher than the 2017–19 average.

🟩 Gross Sales YTD
219k UK homes sold STC YTD , 5.7% lower than 2025, 9% higher than 2024 and 18% above pre Covid norms.

🟩 Net Sales YTD
171k UK net home sales YTD (Net Sales being Gross sales less Fall Thrus). 4.5% lower than 2025, 8.6% ahead of 2024, 25.3% ahead of 2023 and 15% above the 2017–19 average.

🟥 Overvaluing

47.5% of the homes that left UK Estate Agents books in February were withdrawn unsold. Main cause - blatant overvaluing supported by long sole agency agreements of 20+ weeks.

Detailed Breakdown …


✅ New Listings

• 40.2k new properties came onto market this week (up as expected & inline with wk 9 long term trends) from 36.8k last week.
• 2025 weekly average: 30.6k.
• 10-year week 9 average : 35.3k

✅ Price Reductions

• 25.5k reductions this week, up from 20.9k last week
• 11.4% of resi homes for sale were reduced in February. Feb 25 - 12%. Feb 24 - 11.5%
• 2025 average was 12.8%, versus the 6-year long-term average of 10.7%.

✅ Sales Agreed

• 25.6k homes sold stc this week 9, down slightly from 26.6k last week.
• Week 9 average (for last 10 years) : 25.9k
• 2026 weekly average : 24.2k.


✅ Price Difference between Listings & Sales

• 21.6% difference (long term 10 year average is 16% to 17%). (£439k ave Listing Ave Asking price vs £361k Sale Agreed ave Asking price)


✅ Sell-Through Rate

• 15.4% of homes on agents’ books went SSTC in February ’26. (Feb ’25 - 16.1% / Feb ’24 - 16.7%)
• Pre-Covid average: 15.5%.

✅ Fall-Throughs

• 5,516 fall-throughs last week (pipeline of 434k home Sold STC).
• Weekly average for 2025: 6,100.
• Fall-through rate (Fall thru expressed as a % of the Gross sales that week): 21.5%, down from 19.9% last week.
• Long-term average: 24.2% (post-Truss chaos saw levels exceed 40%).
• 4.9% of all the sales agreed in Estate Agent’s Sales pipelines fell thru in February 2026. 2025 average - 5.3% & 10 year average - 5.8%).

✅ Net Sales

• 20k Net Sales, up slightly from 21.3k last week
• Ten-year Week 9 average: 20.7k.
• Weekly average for 2026: 19k.
• Weekly average for the whole of 2025: 18.8k.

✅ Probability of Selling (% that Exchange vs withdrawal)

• Feb ’26 Stats : 52.5% of homes that left agents’ books exchanged & completed in Feb. (Note this figure will change throughout the month as more Feb stats come in).
• 57.6% is the 7 year average (which includes the crazy years post lockdown 18 months)


✅ House Prices (£/sq.ft)

• February ’26 agreed sales averaged £343.36 per sq.ft. 2.3% higher than 12 months ago (£335.63) and 18.2% than 5 years ago (£290.43). The £/sqft at sale agreed matches the HM Land Registry Index with a 98% accuracy, 5 months in advance. That is why it is so important.


✅ Stock Levels

• 682k homes on the market on the 1st of March ’26. (675k - 1st March 25)
• 434k homes in agent’s sales pipeline on the 1st March 2026, slightly lower than 12 months ago on 1st March ’25 (444k).


✅ UK Rental Data

• Average Rent in Feb 2026 - £1,711 pcm (£1,745 in Feb 25)
• 305k UK Rental Stock available to rent in Feb 26 (310k in Feb 2025)


✅ Local Focus

Winchester