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47,000 Fewer UK House Sales Agreed Than in 2025

UK house sales agreed are currently 6.8% behind 2025 year-to-date levels, equating to around 47,000 fewer sales.

That is the headline the doom-mongers will grab.

Yet the wider picture is far more balanced. Sales agreed remain 44,000, or 7.3%, ahead of pre-Covid levels, and 62,000, or 10.3%, higher than at the same point in 2023.

So yes, the market has cooled compared with the unusually strong conditions of 2025. However, it is not collapsing.

The real story is that the market remains active, but buyers have more choice, sellers face more competition and realistic pricing matters more than it did a year ago.

The danger is not the market itself, the danger is interpreting one negative comparison without looking at the longer term context.

Here are the property market stats for week 26, week ending 5th July 2026.

🟩   Listings

Week 26 ..

36.5k new listings this week, (35.4k last week).

Weekly 2026 average : 37.2k. 

10 year week 26 average : 34.9k 

Year to Date

967k new listings YTD  

Identical to 2025 YTD (967k)

4.6% ahead of 2024 YTD (924k)

12.5% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (860k).      

🟩  UK Gross Resi Sales

Week 26 ..

23.8k homes sold stc this week 26 (24.1k last week)  

10 year week 26 average : 26k

2026 weekly average : 24.8k.

Year to Date for house sales 

644k UK homes sold stc YTD

6.8% lower than 2025 YTD (691k)

Yet still Gross Sales are still …

0.8% higher than 2024 YTD (641k)

10.7% higher than 2023 YTD (582k)

7.3% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (600k).

🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD 

(Net Sales being Gross Sales less Sale Fall Thrus). 

Week 26

18k Net Sales (18.6k last week) 

10 year Week 25 average: 19.9k.

Weekly average for 2026: 19.3k. 

Year to Date

502k UK net home sales YTD 

5.2% lower than 2025 (529k), 

0.3% ahead of 2024 (500k), 

12.3% ahead of 2023 (447k)

5% above the 2017–19 average (478k).     

🟩   Exchanges

•           June 2026 – 48.6k Exchanges.(not this figure will rise during July as more exchanges get reported. On past trends, expect that to end on late 70k’s

🟥 Want more in-depth analysis on these stats ??

Watch this week’s episode (week 26) of the ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ with Toby Martin, boss man of the Martin & Co and the other experience brands from the TPFG letting & estate agency franchise group …

https://youtu.be/5KeG70jI0XQ

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UK Home Sales Slide 9.4% in June

Across the first four full weeks of June 2026, 99k UK homes sold subject to contract, were down 9.4% on the same period in 2025 (109k).

For context before all the doom mongers get on their high horses …

103k in June 2024

92k in June 2023

So, the headline numbers are as follows …

🟩   Listings

Week 25 ..

35.4k new listings this week, (36k last week).

Weekly 2026 average : 37.3k. 

10 year week 25 average : 35.3k 

Year to Date

931k new listings YTD  

Identical to 2025 YTD (931k)

4.7% ahead of 2024 YTD (889k)

12.7% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (822k).      

🟩  UK Gross Resi Sales

Week 25 ..

24.1k homes sold stc this week 24 (24.4k last week)  

10 year week 25 average : 26.1k

2026 weekly average : 24.8k.

Year to Date for house sales 

620k UK homes sold stc YTD

6.6% lower than 2025 YTD (664k)

Yet still Gross Sales are still …

0.8% higher than 2024 YTD (615k)

11% higher than 2023 YTD (559k)

7.9% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (575k).

🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD 

(Net Sales being Gross Sales less Sale Fall Thrus). 

Week 25

18.6k Net Sales (18.9k last week) 

10 year Week 25 average: 20.1k.

Weekly average for 2026: 19.3k. 

Year to Date

484k UK net home sales YTD 

5% lower than 2025 (509k), 

0.7% ahead of 2024 (480k), 

12.4% ahead of 2023 (430k)

5.5% above the 2017–19 average (458k).     

🟩   Exchanges

•           May 2026 – 76.8k Exchanges. (Always a month in arrears as they take time to come through)

•           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 25) of the ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ with Nick Neill, boss man of the UK’s 13th largest estate agency brand, Ewemove here …

https://youtu.be/3n4smAmOKF8

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