TrueDeed reports
The Reality Gap
What sellers ask versus what buyers actually pay — measured quarterly, published even when the answer is unflattering, and never below the disclosed sample thresholds.
National asking vs sold gap — 2026-Q3
+55.2%
Median asking price £450,000 across 78 live listings vs median sold price £290,000 across 337,567 HM Land Registry Price Paid transactions (trailing 12 months).
Matched pairs — the same property, listed then sold
Each pair is one property we observed as an asking price and then as a confirmed Land Registry completion. High confidence, small n — this is the gap measured on identical properties, not two different populations. We never blend these figures with the area medians below.
- All properties: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=0)
- Detached: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=0)
- Semi-detached: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=0)
- Terraced: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=0)
- Flat: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=0)
Area medians — what’s asked vs what sold nearby
Median asking price of live listings vs median sold price from HM Land Registry over the trailing 12 months. Two populations compared, larger n, cruder — a market-level signal, not a per-property one. Never blended with the matched pairs above.
- All properties
- +55.2%HM Land Registry PPD
Median asking £450,000 (n=78) vs median sold £290,000 (n=337,567).
- Detached: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=6)
- Semi-detached: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=4)
- Flat: suppressed — sample below threshold (n=5)
No district clears the disclosed sample thresholds this quarter, so the district table is empty rather than padded.
Every published (non-suppressed) cell in this edition is downloadable: download the CSV or read the full methodology.