Sold Price History publishes the price actually paid for homes in England and Wales, as lodged with HM Land Registry, and puts a second number next to it: what that price is worth in today’s money.
Why the second number matters
Almost every house price figure in circulation is a cash figure. “Prices have doubled since 2005” is technically true and practically meaningless, because the pound has not held still either. Once inflation is removed, a great many areas that look like they have surged turn out to have stood roughly where they were. Some have fallen. This site shows both numbers on every page, side by side, so the difference is impossible to miss.
What is on the site
Every town, postcode district and postcode sector with enough recorded sales to support a reliable median has a page. So does every street that clears the same test, and every address that appears in the register more than once. Each page carries the median price paid, the size of the sample it rests on, the price per square metre where an EPC floor area can be matched, the sales that make it up, and the yearly series behind the trend.
What makes it different
Sold prices, not asking prices. No estimates, no valuations, no algorithmic guesses dressed up as data. Where a figure cannot be built honestly — too few sales, no floor areas to match — the page says so and leaves the space empty rather than filling it with something invented.
Why there is no valuation here
Every large property site will tell you what your home is worth. We will not, and the omission is deliberate.
An automated valuation is a model’s guess dressed as a fact. It cannot see the extension, the damp, the noisy road or the year of neglect, and it is wrong most often exactly where it matters most — on unusual homes and in thin markets. Worse, it changes behaviour: sellers anchor to it, buyers argue with it, and a number nobody can audit ends up shaping a real transaction.
What this site publishes instead is the record: what was actually paid, when, for what, and what that sum is worth in today’s money. Where the evidence runs out, the page says so. If you want a valuation, ask two estate agents and a surveyor — and bring these pages with you.
Independent
This is not an estate agency and does not sell leads. Nothing on the site is a valuation, and nobody pays to appear here or to be left out.
Corrections
The register is not perfect. Addresses are recorded inconsistently, some transfers are lodged with the wrong details, and a sale between family members can sit in the data at a price no open-market buyer would pay. If something looks wrong, say so — it will be checked against the source.