
UK Property Market Stats Show - Week 16 2026 - Ep.2534
May 1, 2026
01:05:54
UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 16 2026
🟩 Listings YTD
593k new properties have come onto the market YTD
0.9% below of 2025 YTD, 7.1% above 2024 YTD, and 16.9% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD
🟧Gross Residential Sales YTD
394k UK homes sold STC YTD
5.5% lower than 2025 YTD (417k) , 4.5% higher than 2024 YTD (377k), 15.3% higher than 2023 YTD (342k) and 12.3% higher above pre Covid norms (351k).
🟩 Net Resi Sales YTD
308k UK net home sales YTD (Net Sales being Gross sales less Fall Thrus).
3.2% lower than 2025 (319k), 4.7% ahead of 2024 (275k), 18.2% ahead of 2023 (243k) and 8.9% above the 2017–19 average (264k).
🟥 Exchanges YTD
214k UK Exchanges to the end of March 2026
13% lower than middle of March 2025, when it was 246k.
Note - There were more exchanges in Q1 2025 because of the stamp duty holiday finished in April 2025
🟥 Overvaluing
46.6% of the homes that left UK Estate Agents books in March were withdrawn unsold. Main cause - blatant overvaluing supported by long sole agency agreements of 20+ weeks.
✅ The YouTube Show
The YouTube ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ for the week ending Sunday, 26th April 2026 (week 16 with Steph Vass.
https://youtu.be/fTJkzbvSWDM
✅ Local Focus
Cambridge
