In December 2025, the average price of property coming to market on Rightmove dropped by £6,695 to £358,138. This drop in selling prices  was larger than usual and asking  prices are 0.6% (-£2,059) lower at the end of 2025 than in 2024.

In our House Price Index, we track how the price of properties coming to market changes, and the reasons behind these fluctuations. It’s the largest and most up-to-date view of what’s happening to property prices.

Our experts predict that average asking prices will increase by 2% by the end of 2026. The amount that asking prices will increase by depends on the region of the UK you’re looking at. Asking prices in Scotland and Wales are predicted to increase by 3%, whilst in London we predict the increase to be around 1%.

The pandemic years of 2020 to 2022 saw extraordinary house price growth, driven by lots more people looking to move than there were homes for sale.  

The average asking price on Rightmove (how much a property’s listed for by an agent or developer) has increased by 19% across Great Britain over the past five years. This is because of an extremely busy market from the summer of 2020 through to the first quarter of 2022. Things have slowed since then, and we saw a smaller price rise in 2024 of 1%, which was in line with the predictions from our experts.

It’s important to remember that there are thousands of local markets where house prices differ from the national trend. These local markets can rise and fall. You can find out the average asking price in your area by checking our monthly house price index.

General inflation measures the price of goods and services bought by UK households.Typically, this means things like food and clothes. There are several ways to measure general inflation in the UK. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the most common. It’s published by the Office for National Statistics every month.

General inflation

People’s confidence levels in their individual financial position can be affected by general inflation. And this in turn can impact the demand to buy a home. However, inflation increasing or decreasing doesn’t necessarily mean that house prices will follow the same trend. This is because house prices can be affected by a number of related factors.

Supply and demand

Supply and demand is one of the key factors that affects house prices. It describes the level of demand there is for properties, compared with the supply, or number of homes there are available to buy.

Other reasons

House prices can also be affected by how easy it is to borrow money, as well as incentives from the government.

Over the past 20 years asking prices of homes across Great Britain have more than doubled, from just over £150,000 to over £371,000. This means that house price inflation has outpaced both general inflation and average salaries over the same period.

In December 2025, average asking prices are up the most in North-West (+2.6%) on last year. Average asking prices in Scotland and the West Midlands are both up by +1.3% compared to this time last year.  By comparison, quite notable year-on-year price drops can be seen in the South West and the South East.

*Latest available asking price data from December 2025

HM Land Registry updates their sold house prices data on the 20th day of each month. However, the time between the sale of a property and the registration of this information varies between a few weeks, and a number of months. Registers of Scotland processes the majority of cases within 35 days. So, in both cases, data for the two most recent months isn’t complete.

Once HM Land Registry and Registers of Scotland update their data, we typically update our sold prices within a few weeks, but this can sometimes take longer.