UK Property Market Stats Show - Week 19 2026 - Ep.2550

UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 19 2026 The UK Property Market Stats Show is the estate agency industry’s weekly reality check on what is actually happening in the UK housing market. This week’s show covers Week 19 (Week ending Sunday, 17th May 2026. Hosted by myself, Christopher Watkin, and joined by a different leading thought leader of Estate Agency industry (this week it is the brilliant Simon Gates), The show is approximately 60 mins and split into 2 parts Part 1 of the show looks at national UK housing market statistics, looking at .. It cuts through the BS & doom headlines and lagging house price indices by analysing live week by week property market data, including: * New listings * Homes sold STC * Sale Fall thrus * Exchanges * Over valuing * Price reductions * Stock levels * £ per square foot house price trends Unlike Land Registry data, which can be 8 to 10 months old, the Stats Show focuses on what buyers and sellers were doing last week.. Part 2 deep dives into a specific town or city (this week Scunthorpe), analysing estate agent performance, market share, overvaluing, exchanges, time to sell, fall throughs and other local market trends In a nutshell, the show combines weekly national property market insight with local deep dives into individual towns and cities, exposing what is really happening behind the headlines. For estate agents, it is part market intelligence, part thought leadership, and part uncomfortable truth. The Stats ... Important Note - Week 18 (the week before) was a bank Holiday week, so numbers will be artificially lower than normal for week 18 because of that 🟥  UK Gross Resi Sales Week 19 27k homes sold stc this week 19, UP from 22.5k last week Week 19 average (for last 10 years which includes the post pandemic boom) : 24k 2026 weekly average : 24.8k. Year to Date 471k UK homes sold stc YTD  5.3% lower than 2025 YTD (498k) 3.4% higher than 2024 YTD (456k),  14.6% higher than 2023 YTD (411k) 11.3% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (424k). 🟥 UK Net Resi Sales YTD Week 19 21.8k Net Sales, up from 17.5k last week Ten-year Week 19 average: 18.6k. Weekly average for 2026: 19.4k. Weekly average for the whole of 2025: 18.8k. Year to Date 369k UK net home sales YTD 3.2% lower than 2025 (380k),  3.1% ahead of 2024 (357k), 16% ahead of 2023 (318k) 8.5% above the 2017–19 average (340k). (Net Sales being Gross sales less Fall Thrus). 🟥  Listings Week 19 .. 41.8k new properties came onto market this week, UP from 34.6k last week. Weekly average for 2026: 37.5k. 2025 weekly average: 30.6k. 10-year week 19 average : 32.3k Year to Date 713k new properties (listings) have come onto the market YTD   1% ahead of 2025 YTD (706k) 6.9% ahead of 2024 YTD (667k) 16.6% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (611k) 🟥 You Tube Link … https://youtu.be/1_sKn-fUaz4