Why £/m² is the only honest way to compare homes
Two homes can sell for the same price and offer wildly different value. Price per square metre reveals the gap.
A headline price flatters small homes and hides value in larger ones. Consider two properties that both sell for £450,000: a 68m² flat in a prime postcode, and a 112m² terrace a town over.
On price alone they look identical. On price per square metrethey don’t: the flat works out at about £6,600/m², the terrace closer to £4,000/m². That ’s roughly a third less for every square metre — and 65% more room for the same money.
Where the floor area comes from
The Land Registry records what a home sold for, but not its size. To calculate £/m² we join each sale to the floor area on its Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). Matching isn’t always possible — flats and leasehold properties are harder — so we show £/m² only where we have a confident match, and say so plainly where we don’t.
It’s a small calculation with a big payoff: it turns a headline into a genuine like-for-like comparison, which is exactly what you need when weighing up two areas or two homes.