Conveyancing costs by area Not legal advice. This page has not been reviewed by a solicitor. The figures are official statistics run through our calculators, not a quote.
Do conveyancing costs depend on where you buy? As of August 2026, stamp duty and LTT depend on the price, not the place, but local prices differ widely, so the tax and fees on a typical home do too. Each area page runs that area's official average prices through our stamp duty and fee calculators.
Updated 2 November 2026
East Midlands Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Amber Valley £232,141 £3,176 Ashfield £189,498 £1,783 Bassetlaw £211,488 £2,344 Blaby £293,412 £6,247 Bolsover £183,198 £1,532 Boston £180,174 £1,660 Broxtowe £251,231 £4,111 Charnwood £270,351 £6,083 Chesterfield £202,519 £2,305 Derby £210,076 £2,392 Derbyshire Dales £341,776 £9,769 East Lindsey £208,075 £2,237 Erewash £218,506 £2,614 Gedling £245,028 £4,448 Harborough £341,706 £9,940 High Peak £265,635 £5,531 Hinckley and Bosworth £258,960 £4,910 Leicester £226,881 £3,266 Lincoln £182,294 £1,878 Mansfield £184,895 £1,717 Melton £286,469 £6,473 Newark and Sherwood £236,524 £4,132 North East Derbyshire £253,012 £4,427 North Kesteven £242,384 £3,723 North Northamptonshire £252,884 £4,930 North West Leicestershire £282,397 £6,115 Nottingham £189,547 £2,017 Oadby and Wigston £257,504 £5,213 Rushcliffe £329,528 £9,236 Rutland £307,406 £8,076 South Derbyshire £259,537 £4,669 South Holland £226,156 £2,565 South Kesteven £265,305 £5,394 West Lindsey £210,754 £2,318 West Northamptonshire £289,726 £7,570
East of England Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Babergh £331,207 £9,486 Basildon £366,218 £13,004 Bedford £330,462 £10,321 Braintree £330,089 £10,467 Breckland £266,835 £5,226 Brentwood £522,672 £24,566 Broadland £313,806 £7,334 Broxbourne £414,692 £16,978 Cambridge £470,360 £19,674 Castle Point £357,241 £10,227 Central Bedfordshire £355,263 £11,247 Chelmsford £376,682 £13,568 Colchester £294,210 £7,833 Dacorum £450,935 £18,080 East Cambridgeshire £340,059 £9,256 East Hertfordshire £455,973 £18,115 East Suffolk £277,949 £6,245 Epping Forest £530,653 £23,193 Fenland £224,770 £2,836 Great Yarmouth £204,630 £2,233 Harlow £317,453 £8,882 Hertsmere £553,008 £24,906 Huntingdonshire £306,954 £8,564 Ipswich £226,175 £3,389 King's Lynn and West Norfolk £266,248 £5,356 Luton £285,800 £6,263 Maldon £393,909 £13,198 Mid Suffolk £317,979 £8,284 North Hertfordshire £422,835 £16,124 North Norfolk £286,315 £6,354 Norwich £227,535 £3,566 Peterborough £231,634 £3,685 Rochford £405,340 £13,331 South Cambridgeshire £441,410 £16,082 South Norfolk £307,735 £7,551 Southend-on-Sea £326,132 £10,794 St Albans £655,974 £30,569 Stevenage £309,123 £8,958 Tendring £260,636 £5,006 Three Rivers £590,232 £27,236 Thurrock £319,969 £8,714 Uttlesford £468,166 £18,089 Watford £408,659 £15,138 Welwyn Hatfield £446,043 £17,876 West Suffolk £295,860 £7,533
London Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Barking and Dagenham £369,881 £10,807 Barnet £592,892 £28,897 Bexley £414,833 £14,707 Brent £555,687 £25,260 Bromley £520,253 £23,181 Camden £798,486 £43,704 City of London £726,633 £27,291 Croydon £396,718 £15,287 Ealing £589,875 £27,402 Enfield £474,855 £20,255 Greenwich £462,868 £18,664 Hackney £619,408 £28,179 Hammersmith and Fulham £754,825 £36,727 Haringey £633,221 £30,089 Harrow £532,173 £23,124 Havering £444,572 £16,824 Hillingdon £482,137 £19,930 Hounslow £528,051 £22,480 Islington £654,286 £31,092 Kensington and Chelsea £1,204,072 £87,374 Kingston upon Thames £597,587 £27,518 Lambeth £540,198 £24,103 Lewisham £486,416 £20,137 Merton £623,791 £29,532 Newham £388,045 £11,350 Redbridge £484,378 £19,119 Richmond upon Thames £813,931 £41,582 Southwark £569,160 £26,076 Sutton £458,954 £20,092 Tower Hamlets £447,950 £15,500 Waltham Forest £532,212 £21,454 Wandsworth £694,210 £34,008 Westminster £887,206 £49,397
North East Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average County Durham £140,788 £764 Darlington £159,770 £1,273 Gateshead £156,036 £1,200 Hartlepool £136,625 £784 Middlesbrough £142,868 £819 Newcastle upon Tyne £211,255 £2,831 North Tyneside £205,554 £2,509 Northumberland £213,113 £2,918 Redcar and Cleveland £146,259 £857 South Tyneside £160,518 £1,251 Stockton-on-Tees £172,698 £1,561 Sunderland £147,763 £1,009
North West Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Blackburn with Darwen £160,727 £1,269 Blackpool £138,065 £571 Bolton £203,951 £2,428 Burnley £136,703 £714 Bury £243,107 £4,263 Cheshire East £311,897 £8,681 Cheshire West and Chester £270,534 £6,178 Chorley £216,624 £2,738 Cumberland £172,654 £1,493 Fylde £230,340 £3,336 Halton £189,435 £1,961 Hyndburn £142,964 £745 Knowsley £191,550 £1,869 Lancaster £203,781 £2,270 Liverpool £188,427 £1,921 Manchester £256,760 £4,805 Oldham £217,214 £2,652 Pendle £156,011 £1,216 Preston £188,103 £2,004 Ribble Valley £284,529 £6,943 Rochdale £211,022 £2,458 Rossendale £201,483 £2,306 Salford £223,323 £3,076 Sefton £221,105 £3,109 South Ribble £212,563 £2,252 St. Helens £186,445 £1,754 Stockport £319,016 £9,162 Tameside £213,026 £2,410 Trafford £393,897 £13,905 Warrington £259,224 £5,638 West Lancashire £240,850 £4,120 Westmorland and Furness £231,161 £3,755 Wigan £194,393 £1,982 Wirral £221,673 £3,181 Wyre £188,833 £1,788
South East Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Adur £378,990 £12,030 Arun £320,505 £9,643 Ashford £340,991 £10,356 Basingstoke and Deane £373,551 £13,425 Bracknell Forest £391,521 £14,070 Brighton and Hove £408,240 £14,935 Buckinghamshire £477,450 £19,796 Canterbury £336,427 £10,011 Cherwell £355,981 £10,934 Chichester £428,364 £15,538 Crawley £332,097 £9,797 Dartford £342,167 £11,304 Dover £282,945 £6,888 East Hampshire £440,599 £16,897 Eastbourne £255,642 £5,530 Eastleigh £312,753 £9,091 Elmbridge £735,548 £37,724 Epsom and Ewell £566,163 £25,044 Fareham £334,303 £10,245 Folkestone and Hythe £302,106 £8,593 Gosport £240,093 £4,434 Gravesham £342,498 £11,048 Guildford £537,660 £24,350 Hart £472,755 £18,549 Hastings £238,780 £4,404 Havant £319,869 £9,303 Horsham £441,491 £17,825 Isle of Wight £245,670 £4,747 Lewes £374,305 £12,674 Maidstone £352,878 £11,410 Medway £297,757 £7,355 Mid Sussex £431,904 £17,131 Milton Keynes £323,868 £9,759 Mole Valley £552,344 £24,792 New Forest £384,564 £12,787 Oxford £478,080 £19,266 Portsmouth £245,954 £4,193 Reading £350,501 £11,616 Reigate and Banstead £485,856 £20,403 Rother £335,680 £10,405 Runnymede £472,507 £19,463 Rushmoor £326,799 £9,725 Sevenoaks £535,810 £23,054 Slough £349,397 £11,862 South Oxfordshire £471,427 £17,808 Southampton £235,729 £4,332 Spelthorne £440,812 £16,941 Surrey Heath £457,981 £19,293 Swale £296,578 £7,168 Tandridge £506,774 £22,090 Test Valley £372,289 £12,658 Thanet £268,549 £6,342 Tonbridge and Malling £405,507 £13,998 Tunbridge Wells £452,845 £18,404 Vale of White Horse £411,712 £14,381 Waverley £559,306 £24,385 Wealden £380,679 £12,527 West Berkshire £401,830 £14,845 West Oxfordshire £416,123 £14,881 Winchester £453,188 £17,370 Windsor and Maidenhead £583,688 £26,291 Woking £437,628 £18,923 Wokingham £491,944 £19,357 Worthing £299,075 £8,618
South West Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Bath and North East Somerset £406,084 £14,500 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £310,176 £9,375 Bristol, City of £353,596 £11,344 Cheltenham £328,178 £10,265 Cornwall £274,570 £6,078 Cotswold £426,296 £15,287 Dorset £328,589 £9,680 East Devon £345,256 £10,365 Exeter £289,403 £7,419 Forest of Dean £296,807 £6,980 Gloucester £237,705 £4,030 Mid Devon £285,982 £6,669 North Devon £280,441 £6,485 North Somerset £314,307 £9,213 Plymouth £223,229 £3,042 Somerset £282,498 £6,735 South Gloucestershire £335,572 £9,835 South Hams £360,616 £10,967 Stroud £353,416 £10,437 Swindon £263,685 £6,098 Teignbridge £298,159 £7,505 Tewkesbury £323,497 £9,302 Torbay £221,469 £3,045 Torridge £267,174 £5,789 West Devon £286,921 £6,920 Wiltshire £328,102 £9,551
Wales Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Blaenau Gwent £143,243 £0 Bridgend £210,905 £1,307 Caerphilly £198,545 £336 Cardiff £272,443 £6,495 Carmarthenshire £195,263 £98 Ceredigion £234,314 £2,618 Conwy £218,235 £1,529 Denbighshire £207,130 £839 Flintshire £214,882 £1,552 Gwynedd £203,555 £890 Isle of Anglesey £236,308 £3,174 Merthyr Tydfil £148,656 £0 Monmouthshire £328,937 £9,323 Neath Port Talbot £165,787 £0 Newport £225,702 £2,825 Pembrokeshire £211,074 £1,388 Powys £237,042 £3,110 Rhondda Cynon Taf £165,213 £0 Swansea £211,177 £1,695 Torfaen £194,895 £260 Vale of Glamorgan £300,358 £8,603 Wrexham £215,035 £2,263
West Midlands Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Birmingham £234,867 £3,885 Bromsgrove £332,683 £9,366 Cannock Chase £231,333 £3,356 Coventry £227,721 £3,401 Dudley £233,819 £3,398 East Staffordshire £229,876 £3,513 Herefordshire, County of £291,495 £7,882 Lichfield £339,176 £10,033 Malvern Hills £349,550 £10,158 Newcastle-under-Lyme £208,269 £2,345 North Warwickshire £268,337 £5,609 Nuneaton and Bedworth £226,730 £2,899 Redditch £247,042 £4,926 Rugby £278,324 £6,471 Sandwell £207,065 £2,081 Shropshire £277,521 £6,314 Solihull £332,022 £10,174 South Staffordshire £308,695 £7,670 Stafford £260,446 £5,500 Staffordshire Moorlands £224,481 £2,765 Stoke-on-Trent £150,112 £900 Stratford-on-Avon £396,711 £13,643 Tamworth £232,956 £3,469 Telford and Wrekin £221,853 £3,090 Walsall £216,878 £2,435 Warwick £370,924 £12,286 Wolverhampton £215,801 £2,484 Worcester £257,871 £4,892 Wychavon £322,210 £9,263 Wyre Forest £233,740 £3,914
Yorkshire and The Humber Area Average price Tax for a home mover at the local average Barnsley £173,053 £1,524 Bradford £185,297 £1,818 Calderdale £197,651 £2,231 Doncaster £172,770 £1,435 East Riding of Yorkshire £219,871 £2,734 Kingston upon Hull, City of £136,593 £574 Kirklees £208,427 £2,589 Leeds £246,385 £4,905 North East Lincolnshire £146,370 £860 North Lincolnshire £180,345 £1,539 North Yorkshire £270,080 £6,012 Rotherham £191,052 £1,865 Sheffield £217,603 £3,085 Wakefield £199,283 £2,081 York £311,865 £8,189
Source: HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index (August 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: see LBTT by council .
