UK House Prices by Property Type in 2026: What Detached, Semi, Terraced and Flats Actually Sell For

"Average UK house price" headlines flatten four very different markets into one number. A detached house, a semi, a terrace and a flat are priced by different buyers, financed differently, and distributed across the country in completely different proportions. Here is what each type actually sold for in England & Wales over the 12 months to 31 March 2026, from the HM Land Registry record.

The national picture

Property type	Median sold price	Recorded sales
Detached house	£420,000	160,431
Semi-detached house	£270,000	192,680
Terraced house	£235,000	180,641
Flat / maisonette	£225,000	101,627

Three things stand out.

Semis are the most-traded home in Britain. 192,680 recorded sales — more than any other type. The £270,000 semi, not the £287,500 all-types median, is arguably the truest picture of the mainstream English and Welsh market.

The detached premium is large everywhere. Nationally a detached house costs 1.79× a terrace and 1.87× a flat.

The flat median is deceptively high. Flats (£225,000) look nearly as expensive as terraces (£235,000) — but that's composition, not similarity. Flats concentrate where all property is dear: 63% of London's recorded sales are flats, against 16% nationally. London's £480,000 median flat drags the national flat figure up towards the terrace line. In most towns outside the major cities, the local flat median sits far below the local terrace median.

Where the detached premium stretches: the North East

Ranking every county and unitary authority with at least 200 detached and 200 terraced sales (101 qualify), the widest gaps are all in the North and the South Wales valleys:

County / authority	Detached median	Terraced median	Detached ÷ terraced
Hartlepool	£270,000	£92,500	2.92×
Middlesbrough	£274,350	£95,000	2.89×
County Durham	£260,000	£99,930	2.60×
North East Lincolnshire	£264,250	£103,000	2.57×
Rhondda Cynon Taff	£330,000	£134,000	2.46×
Darlington	£295,000	£120,000	2.46×
Halton	£343,000	£140,000	2.45×
Blackburn with Darwen	£305,000	£125,000	2.44×

In Hartlepool, the median detached house costs almost three terraced houses. This is what a deep stock of sub-£100k terraces does to the ratio: the terrace is priced as volume housing, the detached as the scarce local premium product.

Where it compresses: expensive southern cities

County / authority	Detached median	Terraced median	Detached ÷ terraced
Brighton and Hove	£725,000	£500,000	1.45×
City of Bristol	£550,000	£375,000	1.47×
Greater London	£890,000	£600,000	1.48×
Southampton	£390,000	£260,000	1.50×
Cambridgeshire	£450,000	£291,500	1.54×
Southend-on-Sea	£535,000	£340,000	1.57×
Luton	£435,000	£275,000	1.58×
York	£440,000	£275,000	1.60×

Where land is scarce and even a terrace is a premium purchase — Brighton, Bristol, London, York — the ratio compresses below 1.6×. The absolute gap is still enormous (£290,000 separates a Greater London detached from a terrace), but proportionally, the terrace has already done most of the climbing.

The extremes, town by town

The same type can trade at a 7× spread depending on the town (towns with 100+ sales of that type):

Detached houses run from £215,000 in Prestatyn and £220,000 in Rhyl — the North Wales coast, alongside £229,600 in Skegness and £240,000 in Mablethorpe and Bishop Auckland — up to £1,500,000 in Beaconsfield, £1,450,000 in Harpenden and £1,305,000 in Henley-on-Thames.

Flats run from £74,500 in Sunderland, £87,500 in Blackpool and £89,225 in Stoke-on-Trent up to £440,000 in Twickenham, £410,000 in Wembley and £408,750 in Teddington. A Twickenham flat buys five Sunderland flats, with change.

Sub-£90k city flats are also where gross rental yields peak — the arithmetic behind that is in our buy-to-let yields by region guide. At the other end, the leasehold structure of most flats brings service charges and ground rent into the true cost of ownership — see our freehold vs leasehold guide.

How we calculated this

• Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, the statutory record of registered sales in England & Wales.
• Window: completions from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, as registered by mid-July 2026 — deliberately starting after the March 2025 stamp-duty deadline rush.
• Filter: standard arms-length residential sales only (HMLR category A); auctions, repossessions and portfolio transfers excluded. HMLR's own property-type field (detached / semi-detached / terraced / flat-maisonette) is used as recorded.
• Thresholds: county ratios require at least 200 sales of each type in that authority; town-level type extremes require at least 100 sales of that type, and towns whose name spans more than one postcode area (two different Newports, for instance) are excluded rather than blended.
• Measure: medians throughout — the register's extreme records (individual entries from £1 to over £500 million in this window) make means unreliable.

What this can't tell you

HMLR records no floor area, so none of this adjusts for size — part of the detached premium is simply more house. Type labels are as registered and occasionally rough at the edges. Registration lag under-represents the latest weeks. Scotland and Northern Ireland keep separate registers. And a county ratio can't price your specific home: a free Offrly valuation reads current local comparables — the actual mix of what's selling near you — rather than a national median.

Sources

• HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — every figure in this article is computed from the public register as described above.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Disclaimer: Figures are medians of registered sold prices for the stated window and thresholds; they are market description, not valuation advice. Offrly valuations are indicative market guidance, not regulated valuations — use a RICS-qualified surveyor for mortgage, insurance or probate purposes.

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