UK’s hottest AND coldest housing markets revealed – so do YOU live in one of them? These two metrics are a good gauge of how in-demand a postcode is for buyers.Each area is labelled as ‘very hot’, ‘hot’, ‘normal’, ‘cold’ or ‘very cold’. We have drilled down even further in our online tool where you can see if your neighbourhood’s property market is red hot – or ice cold. The average price of homes sold here sunk 8.7 per cent from £840,636 in the year to September 2024 to £767,210 this year. While the number of transactions fell dramatically, prices of homes sold still soared.

Source: Daily Mail December 31, 2025 08:31 UTC