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Last reviewed: 7 August 2026

We analysed every standard full-value England and Wales property sale recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and grouped them by the last word of the street name. The ending of an address turns out to track a difference of about a quarter of a million pounds. It is not the word doing the work, and the more interesting finding is what happens when you take London out.

Homes on a Hill sell for the most. Homes on a Terrace sell for the least.

These are completed sales in the first quarter of 2025, across England and Wales but excluding London, restricted to standard full-value transactions. It is the hardest of the four cuts we tested, and the pattern is clearest here.

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Hill against Terrace is 2.07x - a gap of £250,732 on the ending of the address alone. Every row carries its sample size so you can see which rows are thin: Road rests on 63,761 sales, Park on 1,699.

The more useful finding: Square is not an expensive name, it is a London name

Take all sales since 1995 rather than one quarter, and look at the whole of England and Wales. On a sales-weighted basis, the most expensive ending in the country is Square, at £385,018 (3,663 streets, 136,405 sales).

Now remove the London postcode areas and run exactly the same query. Square falls to £195,050 (3,196 streets, 90,810 sales) and twelfth place out of twenty-five. It loses about half its value and drops eleven places, with nothing changed except which postcodes are counted.

The reason is concentration. Squares are 1.75% of London streets (467 of 26,612) against 0.47% everywhere else (3,196 of 681,918) - and London is only 3.8% of all the streets in the data. A small, expensive, heavily London-weighted group is enough to carry the national average on its own.

Hill, by contrast, barely moves: £293,675 nationally and second place (6,599 streets, 248,194 sales), £273,103 excluding London and first place (6,394 streets, 212,203 sales). It is expensive more or less everywhere, which is a different kind of fact from Square's.

Both Square figures above are sales-weighted, and that matters more than it sounds. An earlier version of this analysis compared a sales-weighted number against an average-of-street-averages number and produced a confident, wrong conclusion. The two measures disagree substantially, and any comparison that mixes them is meaningless. Where we quote a ranking, both sides use the same measure.

What survives every cut, and what does not

We tested four ways: all sales since 1995 nationally, all sales excluding London, recent sales nationally, and recent sales excluding London.

Hill is at or near the top in all four. Terrace, Street and Court occupy the bottom three in all four. On all sales since 1995 across England and Wales, the bottom of the table is Court (£158,270), Street (£166,160) and Terrace (£169,743) - the same three names, in a slightly different order, as in the recent quarter above.

That stability across four different slices of the data is the part worth standing behind. Any single cut can be an artefact of one period or one region; a pattern that holds when you change both is harder to dismiss.

What it looks like street by street

The averages above are national. Below are real pairs - a Hill and a Terrace in the same postcode district, so geography, era and market are held roughly constant. These illustrate the pattern; they do not prove it.

The last row runs the other way, and it is here deliberately. In Hove, Brunswick Terrace - a Regency seafront terrace - outsells Furze Hill by 1.22x, on the two largest samples in the set. A national average is not a rule about your street.

How we did it

• Source. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, every recorded England and Wales sale from 1 January 1995 onwards, aggregated to 708,530 individual streets across 2,315 postcode districts.
• Standard sales only. We include only ppd_category=A records: full-market-value transactions. That excludes repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio transfers and other sales not made at open-market price. It matters more than it sounds - a single commercial transfer can move a small street's average by an order of magnitude.
• Deletions removed. Land Registry republishes corrections and deletions. We exclude records flagged as deleted (record_status=D). Analyses that skip this step carry transactions Land Registry has since withdrawn.
• The ending is the final whitespace-separated word of the street name.
• Minimum sample. The quarterly table includes only endings with at least 1,500 sales in the quarter; the all-time rankings only endings appearing on at least 2,000 streets. Without a floor, rare endings produce dramatic and meaningless numbers.
• London means the E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC postcode areas.
• Sales-weighted means total value divided by total sales, not the average of per-street averages. The two differ substantially and are never mixed here.

What this does not show

1. This is correlation, not causation. A house is not worth more because the word "Hill" is in the address. Street naming tracks when and where housing was built - Victorian terraces near town centres, post-war closes and ways on estates, "Hill" often on older, lower-density, elevated plots. The ending is a proxy for housing stock and location.
2. These are averages, not like-for-like. Nothing is adjusted for property type, size or tenure. A three-bed on a Hill is not necessarily worth more than a three-bed on a Terrace.
3. England and Wales only. Land Registry Price Paid Data does not cover Scotland or Northern Ireland.
4. Sale prices, not valuations, and the data lags completion by roughly two months.
5. All-time figures mix 1995 and 2026 money. They are useful for ranking, not for levels - which is why the headline table uses a single recent quarter.
6. Sample sizes vary enormously. Road has 63,761 sales in the quarter; Hill has 1,777. Every figure is published with its sample size so you can judge for yourself.

Using this data

The analysis on this page is published by Domovita Ltd under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. You are free to reproduce the table, in whole or in part, including commercially, provided you credit Domovita and link to this page.

The underlying transaction data is not ours. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Land Registry does not endorse this analysis.

Cite this page

Domovita (2026) Street names and house prices in England and Wales. Analysis of HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. https://domovita.co.uk/guides/street-name-house-prices (accessed [date]).

Frequently asked questions

Which street name is worth the most?

On sales in the first quarter of 2025 outside London, streets ending in Hill had the highest average sale price at £484,537. Across all sales since 1995 including London, Square comes top at £385,018 - but that is a reflection of how many squares are in central London rather than anything about the name.

Which street name is worth the least?

Terrace, at an average of £233,805 on the same 2025 sample. Street (£255,979) and Court (£261,376) sit just above it. Terrace, Street and Court are in the bottom three on every version of the analysis we ran.

Does the name of a street actually affect what a home sells for?

There is no evidence here that it does. The name correlates with price because it correlates with when and where the housing was built - Victorian terraces near town centres, post-war closes on estates, older lower-density houses on hills and lanes. The name is a clue about the property, not a cause of its value.

Does this include Scotland and Northern Ireland?

No. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data covers England and Wales only. Scottish sales are recorded by Registers of Scotland and Northern Ireland prices are published in the Northern Ireland House Price Index, on different bases that are not directly comparable with the figures here.

Why exclude London from the main table?

Because leaving it in mostly measures London. Some street endings - Square especially - are far more common in central London than elsewhere, so a national table ranks them by where they are rather than what they are. Excluding the London postcode areas gives a fairer read of the rest of England and Wales, and we show both figures so the difference is visible.

Can I see the real prices for my own street?

Yes. Our sold house prices section lists every sale recorded by HM Land Registry for each street, so you can see the individual transactions rather than an average.

Related guides

• A Buyer's Guide to Finding a Home in England
• A Seller's Guide to Listing Your Home in England
• Sold house prices by street, district and town