Scotland and Yorkshire recorded the very best ranges of housing market exercise within the UK throughout 2025, with Birmingham, Somerset, Cornwall and Buckinghamshire additionally that includes within the prime 10, new analysis exhibits.
Primarily based on the newest authorities knowledge on residential gross sales volumes, the examine carried out by The Property DriveBuy discovered that 504,180 properties have been offered up to now this 12 months, equal to a month-to-month common of 63,023 transactions.
On a regional stage, the South East has been the nation’s most lively homebuying hotspot, with a complete of 71,060 transactions equal to a median of 8,883 per 30 days.
The North West has seen 53,662 gross sales, adopted by the East of England (48,408), South West (46,823), London (46,424), Yorkshire & Humber (39,935), West Midlands (38,166), East Midlands (37,464), and North East (19,895).
Nevertheless, on an area authority stage, the UK’s most lively markets are largely positioned in two locations – Scotland and Yorkshire.
The Metropolis of Edinburgh has seen the very best variety of gross sales up to now this 12 months, totalling 7,351, or a median of 919 per 30 days. And in an in depth second we discover the Metropolis of Glasgow with 7,095 gross sales.
That is adopted by two Yorkshire areas. In North Yorkshire, there have been a complete of 5,466 transactions, whereas in Leeds the full comes to five,451.
Birmingham rounds off the highest 5 homebuyer hotspots for 2025 up to now, with 5,422 gross sales, whereas Somerset (4,706), Cornwall (4,553), Fife (4,492), Buckinghamshire (4,295), and South Lanarkshire (4,234) full the highest ten.
Steve Foreman, founder and CEO of The Property DriveBuy, commented: “What this knowledge clearly exhibits is that the UK housing market in 2025 is something however uniform, and never all the time predictable. Whereas general transaction volumes are averaging simply over 60,000 per 30 days, exercise varies dramatically relying on location, with elements of Scotland and Yorkshire outperforming many historically dominant areas.
“This divergence is being pushed by a mixture of things, together with relative affordability, native employment power, way of life enchantment, and purchaser migration away from higher-priced southern markets.
“For consumers, this implies competitors and pricing pressures can look very totally different only a few miles – maybe even meters – aside, whereas for sellers it reinforces the significance of understanding true, hyper-local demand fairly than counting on nationwide headlines.”
