UK house prices rose 6.4% over the past 12 months – will there be a property market surge?

The Land Registry house price index reveals the average property price reached £271,000 in March. Some experts think this could be a ‘new growth phase’

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UK house prices rose 6.4% in the 12 months to March, according latest House Price Index from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Land Registry

This is up from the 5.5% increase we last saw in the 12 months to February.

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Country and region

Price

Monthly change

Annual change

England

£295,654

1.3%

6.7%

Northern Ireland (Quarter 1 - 2025)

£185,037

1.0%

9.5%

Scotland

£185,939

0.4%

4.6%

Wales

£208,093

0.2%

3.6%

East Midlands

£243,973

0.7%

7.1%

East of England

£343,876

1.4%

6.5%

London

£552,073

-0.3%

0.8%

North East

£168,227

4.2%

14.3%

North West

£217,063

2.5%

9.4%

South East

£386,316

0.4%

5.3%

South West

£310,837

0.7%

5.3%

West Midlands Region

£250,015

1.2%

7.8%

Yorkshire and The Humber

£211,155

2.3%

9.5%

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is an experienced financial and business journalist. Formerly on staff at the Daily Telegraph, her freelance work now appears in the money pages of all the national newspapers. She endeavours to make money issues easy to understand for everyone, and to do justice to the people who regularly trust her to tell their stories. She lives by the sea in Aberystwyth. You can find her tweeting @thatlaurawrites