UK Property Market Stats Show - Week 32 2026 - Ep.2615

UK Property Market Bounces Back After Last Week’s Summer Wobble After last week’s unexpected drop in sales agreed, the UK property market has bounced back. 24,435 homes went sold subject to contract in Week 32, up from around 21,700 the week before and much closer to where we would expect the market to be at this point in August. The evidence increasingly suggests last week’s fall may simply have been the summer slowdown arriving slightly earlier than usual, rather than anything more sinister. Yet beneath that headline, the market remains brutally price sensitive. Around half the homes leaving estate agents’ books are still withdrawing unsold, while four out of five homes listed and sold so far in 2026 achieved that sale without needing a price reduction. The message is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, getting the pricing strategy right from the beginning matters enormously. This week I am joined by Iain White, one of the property industry’s most experienced operators, to dissect the numbers and discuss where estate agents are getting it right and wrong. Then we head to Oxford, where we use cold, hard data to compare its estate agents on market share, exchanges, withdrawals, pricing, fall-throughs and the prices they actually achieve for their sellers and see who is the best Estate Agent in the City. The main stats for UK Property Market Stats for week 32, week ending 16th August 2026. 🟩   Listings Week 32 .. 32.6k new listings this week, (31.5k last week). Weekly 2026 average : 36.4k.  10 year week 30 average : 33k  Year to Date 1.166m new listings YTD   0.3% lower than 2025 YTD (1.169m) 3.2% ahead of 2024 YTD (1.130m) 10.5% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (1.059m).       🟩  UK Gross Resi Sales Week 32 .. 24.4k homes sold stc this week 32 (21.8k last week)   10 year week 32 average : 25.2k 2026 weekly average : 24.6k. Year to Date for house sales  786k UK homes sold stc YTD 7.1% lower than 2025 YTD (846k) 0.7% lower to 2024 YTD (792k) 10.8% higher than 2023 YTD (709k) 6% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (742k). Decade average - 784k YTD 🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD  (Net Sales being Gross Sales less Sale Fall Thrus).  Week 32 18.2k Net Sales (16.9k last week)  10 year Week 32 average: 19.1k. Weekly average for 2026: 19.1k.  Year to Date 609k UK net home sales YTD  5.7% lower than 2025 (647k),  0.4% lower than 2024 (612k),  13.5% ahead of 2023 (537k) 4.2% above the 2017–19 average (585k).      🟩   Exchanges & Withdrawals •           79.6k Exchanges in July 2026 (note this figure will rise during August as more exchanges get reported). •          76.3k Withdrawals in July 2026  – again, this figure will increase as more July withdrawals come thru the system throughout August •           Therefore, in July 2026, only 51% of homes that left agents’ books exchanged & completed in July (the rest - 49% withdrew, unsold) •     57.6% is the 7 year average exchange to listings ratio (which includes the crazy years post lockdown 18 months).  🟥 Want more in-depth analysis on these stats ?? Watch this week’s episode (week 32) of the ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ with Iain White eon YouTube here … https://youtu.be/kEJkCxSpnCY