Areas on the move: South West

South West local authorities ranked by how their average price moved in the year to July 2026, on the official UK House Price Index

In the year to July 2026 the average price in the South West fell 0.2% to £302,298. Of the 26 local authorities ranked in the South West, 16 rose and 10 fell. The biggest rise was in Gloucester, up 4.9%, and the biggest fall in the South Hams, down 5.3%.

Rising fastest over the year

  1. Gloucester: +4.9%, average price £240,718
  2. North Somerset: +3.8%, average price £313,638
  3. South Gloucestershire: +3.4%, average price £341,833
  4. Somerset: +3.1%, average price £282,062
  5. Stroud: +2.9%, average price £351,736
  6. Swindon: +2.6%, average price £263,611
  7. Wiltshire: +2.6%, average price £328,746
  8. Tewkesbury: +2.4%, average price £325,898
  9. Plymouth: +2.2%, average price £223,161
  10. Bristol: +2.1%, average price £352,262
  11. Torridge: +1.7%, average price £263,378
  12. East Devon: +1.3%, average price £339,683
  13. Cotswold: +0.4%, average price £421,125
  14. Cheltenham: +0.3%, average price £322,758
  15. Mid Devon: +0.1%, average price £281,450
  16. Teignbridge: +0.1%, average price £302,368

Falling fastest over the year

  1. South Hams: −5.3%, average price £355,483
  2. North Devon: −2.4%, average price £282,633
  3. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: −1.9%, average price £310,094
  4. Exeter: −1.7%, average price £282,696
  5. Forest of Dean: −1.7%, average price £286,888
  6. Torbay: −1.6%, average price £222,118
  7. Bath and North East Somerset: −0.7%, average price £409,045
  8. Cornwall: −0.7%, average price £275,642
  9. West Devon: −0.6%, average price £285,834
  10. Dorset: −0.1%, average price £325,154

Figures are HM Land Registry's UK House Price Index for July 2026. For a local authority the index is a three-month average (May to July 2026), and the annual change compares it with May to July 2025. The average price is the index's standardised average, a mix-adjusted geometric mean, not the mean or median of sales, so it will not match a list of sold prices.

July 2026 is a first estimate: HM Land Registry make it from around 40% of the sales they expect to register, and revise it and the 11 months before it every month. This page updates with each monthly release. HM Land Registry warn that figures for local authorities with few sales are volatile, so read a small gap between two authorities as no gap.

The index publishes no figure for the Isles of Scilly.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, and Office for National Statistics data, both licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.