· 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 | +£402k | +188.6% |
| 2 | Trafford | +£439k | +110.9% |
| 3 | Warrington | +£276k | +102.9% |
| 4 | North Tyneside | +£182k | +91.6% |
| 5 | Birmingham | +£215k | +86.9% |
| 6 | Sheffield | +£188k | +82.2% |
| 7 | Middlesbrough | +£137k | +81.3% |
| 8 | Darlington | +£118k | +78.0% |
| 9 | South Tyneside | +£134k | +77.7% |
| 10 | Stockton-on-Tees | +£122k | +77.3% |
| 11 | Chorley | +£191k | +75.0% |
| 12 | Cambridge | +£405k | +74.6% |
| 13 | Hounslow | +£339k | +70.4% |
| 14 | Merton | +£483k | +70.0% |
| 15 | Brent | +£380k | +64.4% |
| 16 | Lewes | +£256k | +62.5% |
| 17 | Portsmouth | +£165k | +61.6% |
| 18 | Bath and North East Somerset | +£236k | +60.8% |
| 19 | Salford | +£144k | +59.3% |
| 20 | Liverpool | +£107k | +58.9% |
| 21 | Winchester | +£275k | +57.8% |
| 22 | Hartlepool | +£97k | +57.4% |
| 23 | Sunderland | +£92k | +56.0% |
| 24 | County Durham | +£77k | +54.4% |
| 25 | Halton | +£135k | +53.9% |
| 26 | Stockport | +£176k | +53.7% |
| 27 | Redbridge | +£269k | +52.7% |
| 28 | St. Helens | +£111k | +52.2% |
| 29 | Wirral | +£137k | +51.9% |
| 30 | Warwick | +£188k | +50.8% |
| 31 | Kingston upon Hull, City of | +£70k | +49.3% |
| 32 | Gateshead | +£82k | +48.7% |
| 33 | Oxford | +£234k | +48.7% |
| 34 | Northumberland | +£93k | +48.7% |
| 35 | Redcar and Cleveland | +£75k | +48.5% |
| 36 | South Derbyshire | +£131k | +48.0% |
| 37 | Nottingham | +£103k | +46.4% |
| 38 | East Suffolk | +£146k | +45.9% |
| 39 | North East Derbyshire | +£123k | +45.3% |
| 40 | Lichfield | +£154k | +45.0% |
| 41 | Westminster | +£360k | +44.6% |
| 42 | Kensington and Chelsea | +£493k | +44.5% |
| 43 | Ipswich | +£119k | +44.5% |
| 44 | Manchester | +£121k | +44.4% |
| 45 | Test Valley | +£175k | +43.9% |
| 46 | Wyre Forest | +£121k | +43.6% |
| 47 | Exeter | +£147k | +42.6% |
| 48 | South Staffordshire | +£124k | +42.5% |
| 49 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | +£186k | +42.4% |
| 50 | Bradford | +£80k | +42.0% |
| 51 | York | +£127k | +41.9% |
| 52 | New Forest | +£181k | +41.4% |
| 53 | Barnsley | +£76k | +41.1% |
| 54 | Wealden | +£173k | +40.5% |
| 55 | Brighton and Hove | +£198k | +40.1% |
| 56 | Lincoln | +£78k | +39.6% |
| 57 | Doncaster | +£80k | +39.0% |
| 58 | East Staffordshire | +£106k | +39.0% |
| 59 | Erewash | +£95k | +38.8% |
| 60 | Hastings | +£122k | +38.6% |
| 61 | Enfield | +£206k | +38.0% |
| 62 | Oadby and Wigston | +£166k | +38.0% |
| 63 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | +£86k | +37.1% |
| 64 | Havant | +£130k | +37.1% |
| 65 | Bristol, City of | +£117k | +36.8% |
| 66 | Leeds | +£98k | +36.6% |
| 67 | Harborough | +£141k | +36.6% |
| 68 | Chichester | +£170k | +36.1% |
| 69 | Cotswold | +£168k | +35.6% |
| 70 | Plymouth | +£76k | +34.9% |
| 71 | Mansfield | +£82k | +34.6% |
| 72 | Arun | +£153k | +34.6% |
| 73 | Wigan | +£80k | +34.2% |
| 74 | Newark and Sherwood | +£87k | +34.2% |
| 75 | Barnet | +£291k | +33.9% |
| 76 | Haringey | +£226k | +33.8% |
| 77 | Kingston upon Thames | +£244k | +33.6% |
| 78 | Wychavon | +£127k | +33.4% |
| 79 | South Oxfordshire | +£148k | +33.2% |
| 80 | Derby | +£84k | +33.2% |
| 81 | Lancaster | +£78k | +33.0% |
| 82 | Worcester | +£89k | +32.8% |
| 83 | Cheltenham | +£100k | +32.7% |
| 84 | North Yorkshire | +£95k | +32.4% |
| 85 | Amber Valley | +£78k | +31.8% |
| 86 | Westmorland and Furness | +£63k | +31.7% |
| 87 | South Ribble | +£77k | +31.6% |
| 88 | Southend-on-Sea | +£115k | +31.1% |
| 89 | North Norfolk | +£107k | +30.9% |
| 90 | Three Rivers | +£224k | +30.7% |
| 91 | Rotherham | +£68k | +30.6% |
| 92 | Bury | +£82k | +30.4% |
| 93 | Dover | +£93k | +30.4% |
| 94 | Peterborough | +£89k | +30.0% |
| 95 | West Oxfordshire | +£124k | +29.8% |
| 96 | Coventry | +£75k | +29.7% |
| 97 | Bolsover | +£73k | +29.6% |
| 98 | West Suffolk | +£96k | +29.6% |
| 99 | North East Lincolnshire | +£44k | +29.6% |
| 100 | Oldham | +£68k | +29.5% |
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.