By James Lockett

Research from national UK estate agent, Keller Williams UK, has revealed which areas of the property market in England are currently Best in Show, when it comes to price appreciation across each county since the start of the stamp duty holiday.

Keller Williams analysed house price growth since last July across all local authorities in England before highlighting which area was leading the property market boom across each of the 48 ceremonial counties. 

Across England as a whole, house prices have climbed 8% since the stamp duty holiday was introduced, but the highest rate of growth has been in Oadby and Wigston. At 22%, house prices in the area have boomed and not only has Oadsby and Wigston seen the highest rate of growth of all areas of Leicestershire, but it currently leads the national property market. 

In Lincolnshire, stamp duty house price growth has been highest in South Kesteven at 21%, placing it second in the list of county property market frontrunners. 

Stratford-upon-Avon (19%) in Warwickshire, South Derbyshire (19%) in Derbyshire and Redcar and Cleveland (17%) in North Yorkshire also sit amongst the highest levels of house price growth, having driven the market in their respective counties since last July. 

However, breaking the market down based on the best performing area of each county reveals that not all areas of the UK market are seeing prices boom to the same extent. 

At the other end of the table, the unitary authority of Wiltshire has beaten Swindon to claim the highest rate of house price growth in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire. However, at just 7%, it’s the worst performing county frontrunner in England. 

Check out the full table below to see which area is driving house price growth in your county. 

CEO of Keller Williams UK, Ben Taylor, commented:

“The property market is booming since the introduction of the stamp duty holiday and we’ve highlighted the cream of the crop leading the house price charge in each county across England. 

While each area is home to the highest house price growth in its respective county, some are performing far better than others. This is down to the drastically different DNA of the market from one area to the next and it’s interesting to see how the rate of house price growth differs across the best performing areas in each county. 

That’s not to say that an increase of seven per cent should be sniffed at and, in fact, this would be considered a very healthy level of growth in ‘normal’ market conditions.” 

Ceremonial County	Best in Show	AveHP – July 2020	AveHP – March 2021	Change %
Leicestershire	Oadby and Wigston	£225,960	£275,165	22%
Lincolnshire	South Kesteven	£216,588	£262,362	21%
Warwickshire	Stratford-on-Avon	£297,163	£353,840	19%
Derbyshire	South Derbyshire	£193,910	£230,370	19%
North Yorkshire	Redcar and Cleveland	£118,879	£139,039	17%
West Yorkshire	Calderdale	£148,843	£173,977	17%
Nottinghamshire	Bassetlaw	£159,965	£186,025	16%
Greater Manchester	Manchester	£181,586	£211,107	16%
Devon	Exeter	£255,309	£296,636	16%
Staffordshire	Stafford	£208,621	£242,091	16%
Cheshire	Cheshire East	£226,915	£262,936	16%
Lancashire	West Lancashire	£192,606	£221,023	15%
Rutland	Rutland	£316,357	£361,762	14%
Cumbria	South Lakeland	£237,022	£270,956	14%
Durham	Hartlepool	£105,201	£120,141	14%
Kent	Folkestone and Hythe	£256,667	£293,076	14%
Cornwall	Cornwall	£239,392	£273,153	14%
Suffolk	East Suffolk	£247,168	£281,854	14%
Norfolk	North Norfolk	£246,695	£280,966	14%
South Yorkshire	Rotherham	£144,461	£164,470	14%
Northumberland	Northumberland	£155,942	£177,536	14%
Worcestershire	Wyre Forest	£194,858	£221,782	14%
Merseyside	Wirral	£158,879	£180,350	14%
Surrey	Elmbridge	£583,670	£661,964	13%
Essex	Uttlesford	£393,775	£445,155	13%
Oxfordshire	Oxford	£400,436	£452,297	13%
West Sussex	Adur	£311,122	£351,112	13%
Shropshire	Telford and Wrekin	£168,999	£190,055	12%
Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight	£225,868	£253,711	12%
Gloucestershire	Tewkesbury	£279,079	£313,288	12%
Greater London	Haringey	£541,961	£607,029	12%
West Midlands county	Solihull	£278,629	£311,404	12%
East Sussex	Lewes	£319,679	£356,976	12%
Northamptonshire	Kettering	£200,608	£223,178	11%
East Riding of Yorkshire	East Riding of Yorkshire (UA)	£184,113	£204,200	11%
Hampshire	New Forest	£336,932	£373,274	11%
City of London	City of London	£785,810	£864,354	10%
Cambridgeshire	South Cambridgeshire	£368,422	£403,254	9%
Somerset	Somerset West and Taunton	£239,259	£261,639	9%
Herefordshire	Herefordshire	£238,620	£260,597	9%
Bristol	City of Bristol	£290,945	£317,210	9%
Berkshire	West Berkshire	£334,894	£364,933	9%
Dorset	Dorset (UA)	£289,358	£315,051	9%
Bedfordshire	Bedford	£280,588	£305,419	9%
Tyne and Wear	Sunderland	£119,350	£129,838	9%
Hertfordshire	Hertsmere	£464,826	£503,429	8%
Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire (UA)	£393,605	£425,849	8%
Wiltshire	Wiltshire (UA)	£276,438	£297,154	7%
England	–	£253,460	£274,615	8%
House prices sourced from the Gov.uk UK House Price Index from the start of the stamp duty holiday (July 2020) to March 2021 – latest available data

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Notes

●        Keller Williams are the largest real estate business in the world with 190,000 agents and having rapidly expanded in recent years to 50 countries – founded in Austin, Texas by Gary Keller, Executive Chairman

●        Home sales via Keller Williams topped one million transactions last year

●        Keller Williams UK operates from 12 regional market centres across the country comprising over 300 estate agents, adding substantial numbers of new agents each month

●        Ben Taylor is the CEO of Keller Williams UK and a major shareholder in the region and many of its market centres. He is formerly the Managing Director of John D Wood, a Countrywide PLC brand