· DATA INSIGHT · UPDATED QUARTERLY ·
The Conservation Area premium.
How much more does a home inside an English Conservation Area sell for? Per-LAD sales-weighted median premium across detached / semi / terrace / flat, last 3 years.
| # | Council | Premium £ | Premium % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newcastle upon Tyne | +£413k | +193.8% |
| 2 | Trafford | +£424k | +106.8% |
| 3 | Warrington | +£269k | +99.7% |
| 4 | North Tyneside | +£185k | +93.6% |
| 5 | Birmingham | +£216k | +87.1% |
| 6 | Sheffield | +£196k | +85.4% |
| 7 | Darlington | +£125k | +81.9% |
| 8 | Chorley | +£201k | +78.5% |
| 9 | South Tyneside | +£134k | +77.1% |
| 10 | Stockton-on-Tees | +£119k | +74.4% |
| 11 | Merton | +£479k | +69.9% |
| 12 | Lewes | +£281k | +68.9% |
| 13 | Middlesbrough | +£109k | +68.0% |
| 14 | Cambridge | +£366k | +67.8% |
| 15 | Hounslow | +£325k | +67.3% |
| 16 | Brent | +£379k | +64.2% |
| 17 | Bath and North East Somerset | +£243k | +62.3% |
| 18 | Portsmouth | +£164k | +61.3% |
| 19 | Winchester | +£281k | +58.4% |
| 20 | Salford | +£140k | +57.4% |
| 21 | Liverpool | +£101k | +55.3% |
| 22 | County Durham | +£76k | +54.5% |
| 23 | Sunderland | +£88k | +53.7% |
| 24 | Stockport | +£175k | +53.1% |
| 25 | Hartlepool | +£92k | +52.7% |
| 26 | St. Helens | +£114k | +52.3% |
| 27 | Halton | +£132k | +52.1% |
| 28 | Warwick | +£191k | +51.6% |
| 29 | Redbridge | +£258k | +50.8% |
| 30 | Wirral | +£130k | +49.9% |
| 31 | Kingston upon Hull, City of | +£71k | +49.4% |
| 32 | Northumberland | +£94k | +49.2% |
| 33 | Gateshead | +£83k | +48.8% |
| 34 | Redcar and Cleveland | +£73k | +47.5% |
| 35 | South Derbyshire | +£129k | +47.3% |
| 36 | Manchester | +£127k | +46.3% |
| 37 | Nottingham | +£103k | +46.3% |
| 38 | Kensington and Chelsea | +£503k | +46.0% |
| 39 | North East Derbyshire | +£123k | +45.8% |
| 40 | East Suffolk | +£144k | +45.7% |
| 41 | Ipswich | +£120k | +44.8% |
| 42 | Oxford | +£215k | +44.8% |
| 43 | Test Valley | +£175k | +43.8% |
| 44 | Wyre Forest | +£120k | +43.5% |
| 45 | Westminster | +£342k | +43.0% |
| 46 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | +£187k | +42.7% |
| 47 | South Staffordshire | +£123k | +42.0% |
| 48 | York | +£126k | +41.7% |
| 49 | New Forest | +£181k | +41.3% |
| 50 | Exeter | +£142k | +41.1% |
| 51 | Lichfield | +£141k | +40.9% |
| 52 | Lincoln | +£83k | +40.7% |
| 53 | Bradford | +£77k | +40.6% |
| 54 | Brighton and Hove | +£198k | +40.2% |
| 55 | Wealden | +£169k | +40.1% |
| 56 | Barnsley | +£75k | +39.7% |
| 57 | Bromsgrove | +£179k | +39.1% |
| 58 | Newark and Sherwood | +£99k | +38.8% |
| 59 | Doncaster | +£79k | +38.3% |
| 60 | East Staffordshire | +£103k | +38.1% |
| 61 | Oadby and Wigston | +£166k | +38.0% |
| 62 | Bristol, City of | +£121k | +37.9% |
| 63 | Hastings | +£119k | +37.7% |
| 64 | Enfield | +£202k | +37.2% |
| 65 | Erewash | +£92k | +37.0% |
| 66 | Leeds | +£98k | +36.9% |
| 67 | Plymouth | +£82k | +36.8% |
| 68 | Cotswold | +£174k | +36.6% |
| 69 | Harborough | +£140k | +36.5% |
| 70 | Bolsover | +£91k | +36.2% |
| 71 | Chichester | +£173k | +36.0% |
| 72 | Havant | +£126k | +35.9% |
| 73 | Arun | +£152k | +34.6% |
| 74 | Haringey | +£229k | +34.3% |
| 75 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | +£79k | +33.7% |
| 76 | Wigan | +£77k | +33.4% |
| 77 | Barnet | +£286k | +33.3% |
| 78 | South Oxfordshire | +£150k | +33.3% |
| 79 | Cheltenham | +£104k | +33.1% |
| 80 | Derby | +£80k | +32.8% |
| 81 | Lancaster | +£77k | +32.6% |
| 82 | Worcester | +£88k | +32.5% |
| 83 | Southend-on-Sea | +£120k | +32.4% |
| 84 | Kingston upon Thames | +£237k | +32.3% |
| 85 | Peterborough | +£94k | +32.2% |
| 86 | Wychavon | +£121k | +32.0% |
| 87 | North Norfolk | +£111k | +32.0% |
| 88 | North Yorkshire | +£94k | +32.0% |
| 89 | Westmorland and Furness | +£62k | +31.3% |
| 90 | West Suffolk | +£100k | +31.2% |
| 91 | South Ribble | +£77k | +31.2% |
| 92 | Amber Valley | +£77k | +31.0% |
| 93 | Bury | +£83k | +30.7% |
| 94 | West Oxfordshire | +£128k | +30.7% |
| 95 | Swindon | +£102k | +30.6% |
| 96 | Coventry | +£77k | +30.6% |
| 97 | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | +£91k | +30.5% |
| 98 | Dover | +£95k | +30.4% |
| 99 | Stroud | +£117k | +30.2% |
| 100 | Rotherham | +£66k | +30.0% |
Caveats — read before quoting this
- HM Land Registry doesn't record floor area, so the comparison is property-type-controlled only (detached vs semi vs terrace vs flat). Bigger CA homes will inflate the apparent premium.
- Conservation-area homes are systematically older and were already pricier — this is correlation, not a causal "designation effect".
- The comparison is LAD-wide, not adjacent-postcode. A robust analysis would compare in-CA postcodes to physically-adjacent out-of-CA postcodes.
- Filtered to standard residential transfers (ppd_category=A) and prices £20k–£20m to drop obvious data errors.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid · planning.data.gov.uk Conservation Areas · ONS Postcode Directory (via postcodes.io) · Open Government Licence v3.0.