The UK Property Market Update for Week 42 of 2025

✅ New Listings

  • 29.3k new properties came to market this week, down as expected from 31.2k last week
  • 2025 weekly average: 35.8k
  • Nine year week 42 average :31.5k
  • Year-to-date (YTD): 1.50m new listings, 1.7% higher than 2024 YTD (1.48m) and 9% above the 2017–19 average (1.38m)

✅ Price Reductions

  • 21.3k reductions this week, lower as expected, than last week’s at 23.2k.
  • Increase in the number of homes on the market being reduced in September to 14.1% (these stats are always done a month in arrears). In August, it was 11.1% (everyone must have been on holiday!), whilst it was 14.1% in July and 14% in June.
  • 2025 average so far: 13.2%, versus the five-year long-term average of 10.74%.

✅ Sales Agreed

  • 24.2k homes sold subject to contract this week, down as expected from 24.4k last week.
  • Week 42 average (for last 9 years) :24.7k
  • 2025 weekly average : 26k.YTD: 1.092m gross sales, which is 4.5% ahead of 2024 (1.046m) and 12.7% above the 2017–19 average (922k).

✅ Price Diff between Listings & Sales

  • Average Asking Price of listings last week £401k vs Average asking price of Sales Agreed (SSTC) – £359k  – a 11.7% difference (long term 9 year average is 16% to 17%)…
  • Interestingly, the average listing price has dropped from £464k in the first 3 weeks of Sept to £420k in October.. ie cheaper homes are being listed

✅ Sell-Through Rate

  • 14.1% of homes on agents’ books went SSTC in September. (October figures to follow in November)
  • Down from 14.5% in Aug, 15.4% in July, 15.3% in June, and 16.1% in May.
  • Pre-Covid average: 15.5%.

✅ Fall-Throughs

  • 5,898 fall-throughs last week (pipeline of 510k home Sold STC).
  • Weekly average for 2025: 6,210.
  • Fall-through rate: 24.3%, slightly up from 24.2% last week.
  • Long-term average: 24.2% (post-Truss chaos saw levels exceed 40%).

✅ Net Sales

  • 18.3k net sales this week, down (as expected) from 18.5k last week.
  • Nine-year Week 42 average: 18.4k.
  • Weekly average for 2025: 19.8k.
  • YTD: 832k, which is 3.8% ahead of 2024 (801k) and 9.5% above 2017–19 (760k).

✅ Probability of Selling (% that Exchange vs withdrawal)

  • Final September Stats : 53.1% of homes that left agents’ books exchanged & completed in September.
  • August :55.8% / July: 50.9% / June: 51.3% / May: 51.7% / April: 53.2%.

✅ Stock Levels

  • 751k homes on the market at the start of October, 4% higher than October 2024. (723k)
  • 510k homes in sales pipeline on the 1st October, 2% higher than 12 months ago.

✅ House Prices (£/sq.ft)

  • September 2025 agreed sales averaged £336.54 per sq.ft.

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