Welcome to the 35th UK Property Market Stats Show of 2025 – your go-to weekly TV programme on the UK housing market.
This week, I am joined by Kristian Stott, as we unpack the key headlines from the 35th week of 2025, ending Sunday, 7th September 2025.
✅ Listings (New to Market)
36.8k new listings this week (Up as expected from 29.1k last week as it was week after August Bank Holiday).
2025 weekly average : 36.2k
YTD listings are 3.3% higher than 2024 YTD (1.27m YTD vs 1.23m in 2024 YTD) and 10.7% above the 2017–19 YTD average (1.15m).
✅ Price Reductions
25.7k reductions this week (up from 17.5k last week – again post Bank Holiday).
Only 1 in 9 homes for the month of August on the market being reduced monthly (11.1%)
For context:
• 14.1% in July, 14% in June
• 13.1% average in 2025
• Long-term 5-year average: 10.7%.
✅ Sales Agreed
24.9k homes sold STC this week (up from last week at 21.3k – again Bank Holiday)
2025 weekly average : 26.2k
YTD agreed sales:
• 6.3% up on 2024 (918k vs 863k)
• 13.7% up on pre-Covid average of 807k (2017–19).
✅ Sell-Through Rate (July, in arrears)
14.5% of properties on agent’s books went SSTC in August.
Down from 15.4% in July Up, 15.3% in June & 16.1% in May
Pre Covid average: 15.5%.
✅ Sale Fall-Throughs
6,408 fall-throughs last week (from a 510k SSTC pipeline (units)).
Weekly average for 2025: 6,212
Fall-thru rate as percentage of gross sales: 25.8% (up from 24.1% last week).
The 9 year long-term average of 24.2% (post-Truss chaos saw that at levels of 40%+).
✅ Net Sales
18.5k net sales this week (Up from 16.2k last week – again Bank Holiday)
Week 35 average (last 9 years) 16.9k
Weekly average for 2025: 20k
YTD Net Sales: 700k in 2025 which is 5.3% ahead of 2024 YTD figure of 665k and 10.1% up on 2017–19 YTD (636k).
✅ % Chance the Home will Sell (month in arrears)
Preliminary August stats showed 54.9% of UK Homes that left the estate agents books in exchanged & completed contracts (ie the agent got paid and the home moved on completion), the remaining 45.1% left Estate Agent books, unsold and homeowner staying in their home. (Note this number will change throughout the month as more stats come in for August)
Comparison
July – 50.9%
Jun – 51.3%
May – 51.7%
April – 53.2%.
✅ Stock Levels (For Sale and Sales Pipeline) – 1st of the Month
763k homes on the market at the start of 1st Sept – 6.7% higher than 1st Sept 2024 (710k).
510k homes in Estate Agents sales pipelines on 1st Sept – 3.4% higher than than 1st August 2024.
✅ House Prices (measured by £/sq.ft)
£338.78/sqft on Sales Agreed in August 2025 – 1.41% higher than August 2024 and 14.25% higher than August 2020.
✅ Rental Stats (in arrears)
August 2025 with an average rent of £1,828 pcm (August ’24 – £1,779 pcm)
(YTD 2025 average is £1,774 pcm).
✅ Local Focus:
Bedford
Read the orginal article: https://propertyindustryeye.com/what-is-currently-happening-in-the-uk-property-market-65/
