Home Affordability Map
Want to know where you can afford to buy a house in the UK or your local area? Using reallymoving and Land Registry data, our home affordability map can help you pinpoint where you can afford to buy a property, based on your budget and how many bedrooms you need.
How does it work?
To find out which areas in the UK offer the most affordable housing for you, simply select the number of bedrooms you need and adjust the budget slider to your maximum price point. The greener the area, the more homes are available that match your criteria.
For example, if you're looking for affordable housing in London and the map shows dark red, you might find that moving the map further out reveals more homes within your budget. You may even discover locations you hadn’t considered before.
We want to help you make the best choices when it comes to your property purchase, to save you time and money!
How do we collect this data?
Using Land Registry data (2024 HM Land Registry data for England and Wales, 2023 Land Register of Scotland data for Scotland), we calculate the average property price in each district. We then use our internal data, combined with housing stock data from the most recent census, to get the average property price by property size within each district. Using the methods described in the RIETI Discussion Paper, we then turn the average property price into information about what percentage of properties will be within the budget you provide.
Districts with fewer than 100 properties of a given size are marked as “limited data,” as only one or two homes may be available at a time.
Due to limited public data, affordability estimates in Northern Ireland are based solely on reallymoving's internal data.
Attribution
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025
Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Disclaimer
This data may become inaccurate at any time due to changes in the housing market, new building developments, variation of local market conditions between and within postcode districts, or any other reason. Postcode district boundaries as displayed are for visualisation purposes only, and do not precisely correspond to the true boundaries of the postcode district.
About reallymoving
Launched in 1999, reallymoving has become the UK's leading provider of free instant quotes for home-moving services, serving over 2,882,912 customers since its inception.
Reallymoving provides instant quotes for conveyancing, surveys, removals, Scottish home reports and EPCs.
During 2024, we generated almost 600,000 quotes on behalf of its UK-wide network of partners, representing approximately £167 million worth of work in 12 months. It estimates 11% of the UK’s homebuyers receive quotes from the site.
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