UK Property Market Stats Show - Week 24 2026 - Ep. 2574

UK Home Sales Slide 10.4% in June as Every Region Falls Behind 2025 Week 24 has delivered a noticeably softer picture for the UK property market. Across the first three full weeks of June 2026, 75k UK homes were sold subject to contract, down 10.39% on the same period in 2025. That represents 7.8k fewer sales agreed than the 82.8k recorded during the first three full weeks of June last year. With every UK region reporting a decline (full breakdown of the regions below), it would be wrong to pretend that the market has not become more challenging. Yet the comparison needs context. The first 3 weeks of June in 2024, 77.8k homes went sold STC, down by a more modest 2.8k sales, or just 3.8%. Also, when compared with 2023, the picture is stronger. Just 70.2k homes were sold STC during the equivalent period that year, meaning 2026 is ahead by 4.8k sales, an increase of 6.45%. So, UK home sales have undoubtedly lost momentum compared with an unusually strong June 2025. However, this is not a market that has stopped. It is a market operating below last year’s peak, broadly alongside 2024, and still comfortably ahead of 2023. Regional Breakdown below Detailed breakdown of the main stats 🟩   Listings Week 24 .. 36k new listings this week, (36.5k last week). Weekly 2026 average : 37.3k.  10 year week 24 average : 35.7k  Year to Date 895k new listings YTD   0.1% ahead of 2025 YTD (894k) 5.1% ahead of 2024 YTD (852k) 13.6% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (787k).       🟩  UK Gross Resi Sales Week 24 .. 24.4k homes sold stc this week 24 (25.1k last week)   10 year week 23 average : 26.2k 2026 weekly average : 24.8k. Year to Date for house sales  596k UK homes sold stc YTD 6.4% lower than 2025 YTD (636k) Yet still Gross Sales are still … 1.3% higher than 2024 YTD (588k) 11.4% higher than 2023 YTD (535k) 8.4% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (550k). 🟩  June Regional month to date Breakdown The first 3 complete weeks of June - Gross Sales MTD The regional picture is as follows: * National: down 10.39% * East Midlands: down 9.66% * East of England: down 7.73% * Inner London: down 12.74% * North East: down 6.99% * North West: down 11.49% * Outer London: down 13.13% * Scotland: down 5.89% * South East: down 7.38% * South West: down 8.55% * Wales: down 7.20% * West Midlands: down 9.58% * Yorkshire and Humber: down 5.44% Outer London recorded the sharpest fall, followed by Inner London and the North West. Scotland and Yorkshire and Humber proved the most resilient, although both were still below last year. The message is simple. This is a tougher market than June 2025, but it is not a dead one. Homes are still selling. The difference is that buyers have more choice, less urgency and far less tolerance for overpricing. 🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD  (Net Sales being Gross Sales less Sale Fall Thrus).  Week 24 18.9k Net Sales (19.2k last week)  10 year Week 23 average: 20.3k. Weekly average for 2026: 19.4k.  Year to Date 464k UK net home sales YTD  4.7% lower than 2025 (488k),  1.1% ahead of 2024 (460k),  12.6% ahead of 2023 (413k) 6% above the 2017–19 average (439k).      🟩   Exchanges •           May 2026 – 76.8k Exchanges … note this figure will increase throughout June as more May exchanges come thru the system  •           365k UK Exchanges YTD to end of May 2026. 5.5% lower than Jan to May 2025, when it was 386k.   NB. There were more exchanges in Q1 2025 because of the stamp duty holiday which finished in April 2025. 🟥 Want more in-depth analysis on these stats ?? Watch this week’s episode (week 24) of the ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ with Toby Martin here … https://youtu.be/oguR6tIQ--0