Sold Price History
What buyers actually paid at each sale
Sold price history is the record of what this property changed hands for at each past sale. HM Land Registry publishes it as Price Paid Data for England and Wales, covering sales from January 1995. Registers of Scotland holds the equivalent record; Northern Ireland has no public sold price register.
What This Means
These are the prices people actually paid for this property, which makes them the firmest numbers on the report. Each sale is shown with the years held and the annual growth since the previous one. That growth figure mixes market movement with any work done to the house. An extension added between two sales inflates it, and the record cannot separate the two. Gaps matter as much as entries. A missing sale usually means it was never registered, or fell outside the dataset. It rarely means the home never changed hands.
Practical Advice
- Ask your conveyancer to check the price paid entry on the title register against the last sale shown here.
- Ask the seller's agent what work was done to the house between the last two sales.
- Ask your surveyor which comparable sold prices they used, and how they adjusted for condition.
- Ask your mortgage broker whether your lender applies the six-month rule when the seller bought very recently.
Key Points
- Right to Buy sales at a discount are excluded, so a former council home can show no entry for the purchase that made it private.
- Registration lags completion by roughly two weeks to two months, so a sale that completed eight weeks ago may still be absent.
- Repossessions, buy-to-lets and bulk sales are published as category B entries, so a category B price may not reflect an open-market sale.
Additional Information
The linked search covers England and Wales only. In Northern Ireland, Land & Property Services and NISRA publish a quarterly house price index. It is built from HMRC stamp duty records, and gives an area trend, never an address.