The latest UK House Price Index shows that average house prices in Wales increased by 3.1% over the year to August 2026, compared with 0.9% across the UK.

Wales average

£216k

Wales annual rise

+3.1%

UK annual rise

+0.9%

Annual house price changes by selected Welsh council areas

Provisional year-on-year changes, August 2026

Source: HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index. Recent estimates are provisional.

Sixteen of Wales’s 22 local authority areas recorded annual increases.

Why it matters: The figures provide timely context for the council tax revaluation debate, affordability pressures and the uneven development of local housing markets.

They do not, on their own, establish changes in housing affordability, which also depends on earnings and borrowing costs.