Articles: honest guides to what UK homes actually sell for

Everything we publish about UK house prices starts from the official record: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, every registered sale in England and Wales since 1995. Sold prices, registration lag, stamp duty, leasehold and the gaps in the data, explained plainly.

• Pricing8 min

  How to check what a house sold for

  Sold house prices are public, free and older than you think. The three ways to look one up, the six fields you get, and the gaps nobody warns you about.

  Updated: 2026-08-20

• Pricing9 min

  HM Land Registry Price Paid Data explained

  Thirty million transactions, sixteen fields, no floor area. A practical tour of the sold price dataset, its two categories and the sales it deliberately omits.

  Updated: 2026-08-20

• Pricing8 min

  Why sold prices differ from asking prices

  The gap between the board outside and the figure on the register is never one national number. Here is what creates it and how to measure your own.

  Updated: 2026-08-20

• Process7 min

  How long until a sale appears on the register

  The sale completed in March and the record still is not there. The registration lag explained, plus why the newest months in the data are provisional.

  Updated: 2026-08-20

• Process8 min

  Stamp duty for buyers in England: how it works

  Rates move with every fiscal event, but the mechanism does not. How SDLT is calculated, which surcharges apply, and why prices cluster below thresholds.

  Updated: 2026-08-27