This week’s UK Property Market Stats show reviews market activity for the week ending Sunday 5 April 2026, with me and my analysis. adam lawrence On the latest national trends.
In the second part, we examine asset and agent performance HerefordIdentifying which companies are delivering the strongest results.
The discussion also highlights how agents can use performance data to demonstrate value, helping them compete on price and avoid losing instructions to competitors who overprice or charge less.
UK property market headlines for week 13 2026
🟩 Listing YTD
480k new properties have come to market YTD, which is 0.6% ahead of 2025, 7.5% up from 2024 and 18.2% above the 2017-19 average.
🟧Total Sales YTD
321k UK homes sold in STC YTD, 6.2% below 2025, 6.2% above 2024, and 15.3% above pre-Covid norms.
🟩 Net Sales YTD
251k UK net domestic sales YTD (net sales is gross sales minus fall through). 3.6% below 2025 (261k), 5.9% ahead of 2024 (238k), 18.8% ahead of 2023 (212k) and 12.3% above the 2017-19 average (224k).
🟥 Exchange YTD
172k UK exchanges by mid-March 2026
9.3% lower than mid-March 2025, when it stood at 188k.
Note – this gap will narrow throughout April as more March ’26 exchanges come through the system.
🟥 overestimate
47.4% of homes left with UK estate agents in March were withdrawn unsold. Main reason – blatant overvaluing supported by 20+ week long sole agency agreements.
Detailed description…
Important note – this was Good Friday week, and historically most metrics fell about 10% to 15% compared to the previous week.
✅ new lists
• 38.4k new properties came on to the market this week (week 13), down from 40.3k last week.
• 2025 weekly average: 30.6k
• 10-Year Week 13 Average: 34K.
✅ price cut
• Decrease of 23.2 thousand last week, reduction of 20 thousand this week.
• Sales of residential homes decreased by 13.2% in March. March 25 – 13.4%. March 24 – 12.2%
• The 2025 average was 12.8%, while the 6-year long-term average was 10.7%.
✅ consent to sale
• 24 thousand houses were sold in 13 STCs this week, down from 26.3 thousand last week.
• Week 13 average (for the last 10 years including post-pandemic surge): 24.5k
• 2026 weekly average: 24.7k.
✅ sell-through rate
• 15.4% SSTC of homes went on the agents’ books in February ’26. (Feb ’25 – 16.1% / Feb ’24 – 16.7%) – March figures will be out next month.
• Pre-Covid average: 15.5%.
✅ Price difference between listing and sale
• 22.7% difference (long-term 10-year average is 16% to 17%). (£438k away listing away asking price vs £357k sale agreed away asking price).
✅ fall-through
• 4,921 fall-throughs last week (STC’s pipeline of 453k homes sold).
• Weekly average of decline by 2025: 6.1 thousand. By comparison 5.3k per week in 2026 YTD
• Fall-through rate (fall-through expressed as a % of that week’s gross sales): 21%, the same as last week.
• Long term average: 24.2% (post-truce anarchy levels seen above 40%).
• Estate agent sales pipelines fell by 5.1% of all sales agreed in March 2026. 2025 average – 5.3% and 10 year average – 5.8%).
✅ total sales
• 18.5k net sales, down from 20.8k last week
• Ten-year Week 13 average: 19.4k.
• Weekly average for 2026: 19.4k.
• Weekly average for all of 2025: 18.8k.
✅ Probability of Selling (% of Exchange vs. Withdrawal)
• March ’26 stats: 52.6% of homes that exchanged agents’ books were completed in March. (Note that this figure will change throughout the month as more March data becomes available).
• 57.6% is a 7-year average (which includes the crazy 18 months following the lockdown).
✅ House prices (£/sq ft)
• Agreed sales in March ’26 averaged £345.64 per square foot. Up 2% from 12 months ago (£338.97) and 12.7% up from 5 years ago (£306.76). Sale agreed £/sqft, matches HM Land Registry index with 98% accuracy 5 months ago. That’s why it’s so important.
✅ stock levels
• 717k homes on the market as of April 1, 26. (706k – 1 Apr 25)
• 453k homes in the agent sales pipeline at 1 April 2026, slightly less than 12 months ago (461k) at 1 April 2025.
✅ UK rental data
• Average rent in March 2026 – £1,740 pcm (£1,747 in March 25)
• 312k of UK rental stock available to rent in March 26 (vs 313k in March 2025).
✅ local focus
Hereford