Asking Price History
Listings, reductions and withdrawals on record
An asking price is the figure a property is advertised at, set by the seller on the agent's advice. Asking price history tracks that figure across every listing of this address, through each reduction, increase and withdrawal. No public body records asking prices anywhere in the UK. The record here is assembled from estate agent listings published on property portals.
What This Means
Nobody verified these figures, so they tell you nothing reliable about what this property is worth. A reduction records the seller moving their ask, not the home losing value. The run of listings shows how hard this price has already been tested. Re-listings are counted as every listing after the first of its kind. A change of agency can therefore add one, even though the home never left the market. What the property finally sold for is the checkable figure; the asking price is where the seller started.
Practical Advice
- Ask the agent why the price was reduced, and whether a sale had been agreed and then fell through.
- Ask the agent which of these listings was a genuine relaunch and which was only a change of agency.
- Ask your conveyancer to raise any withdrawn listing in the pre-contract enquiries to the seller's solicitor.
- Ask your surveyor to value this property on comparable sold prices, ignoring the figure it is advertised at.
Key Points
- A listing shown as Withdrawn was taken off the market, not sold: a completed sale appears in the sold price record instead.
- An increase can be genuine: a seller who adds a loft conversion mid-campaign may relaunch above the original figure.
- An auction lot carries a guide price, not an asking price: the guide signals the likely reserve, and lots routinely sell well above it.
Additional Information
Since April 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority has policed misleading price claims in property adverts. It can fine an agent directly, without going to court. The trading standards guidance on what a listing must disclose has since been withdrawn, with no replacement published.