The places in the UK where homes are selling the fastest
Key Points
- Zoopla has revealed the regions in the UK where houses are selling the fastest and the slowest.
- The local authorities where houses were selling the fastest last month included Falkirk, Renfrewshire, and North Lanarkshire.
- Houses were taking the longest to sell in Melton, Westminster, and Teignbridge.
- Regional disparities in the British housing market are becoming increasingly apparent as buyers are constrained by affordability.
New data reveals the places in England, Scotland, and Wales where houses are selling the fastest and the slowest.
According to analysis from online property platform Zoopla, homes in around half of the local authorities in England, Scotland, and Wales are taking longer to sell than they did last year.
Of the 363 local authorities analysed by Zoopla, 180 have seen the number of days it takes to sell the average property increase in the past year. This is despite the national average time it takes to sell a property remaining unchanged year-on-year at 42 days.
The overall picture may point to stable demand, but Britain’s property market is compromised of several region markets that are increasingly diverging.
Zoopla’s analysis points to a widening gap between local markets where average sale times is fast and improving, and weaker markets where it is taking significantly longer to find a buyer than last year.
Some of these areas are only a few miles from each other, but their changing average times to sell point to how affordability is impacting specific regions over others.
In Westminster, for example, the average time to sell a home in July 2026 was 63 days. In Melton in the West Midlands, the average time to sell was 76 days, an increase of 21 days compared to the same time last year.
The local authorities where houses are selling the fastest include Falkirk, Renfrewshire, and North Lanarkshire.
The fastest and slowest selling regions in Britain
Below are the best and worst performing local authorities in terms of the average time to sell a house in July 2026.
| Ranking | Best performing local authority | Average time to sell (days) – July 26 | Worst performing local authority | Average time to sell (days) – July 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falkirk | 11 | Melton | 76 |
| 2 | Renfrewshire | 13 | Westminster | 63 |
| 3 | North Lanarkshire | 13 | Teignbridge | 63 |
| 4 | South Lanarkshire | 14 | Torridge | 61 |
| 5 | East Ayrshire | 14 | Tower Hamlets | 60 |
| 6 | East Renfrewshire | 14 | Isle of Wight | 60 |
| 7 | West Dunbartonshire | 14 | Thanet | 60 |
| 8 | Stirling | 15 | North Devon | 60 |
| 9 | Glasgow City | 15 | South Norfolk | 58 |
| 10 | Clackmannanshire | 16 | Elmbridge | 58 |
The ten fastest selling regions are all in Scotland, while London and areas in the South of England are much more represented at the other extreme.
Zoopla noted that this speed reflects the Scottish sales market, where homes are typically marketed as ‘offers over’ a price and buyers have more certainty earlier in the process.
In general, higher average mortgage rates look to be making buyers less in areas where buying costs are already high, while more affordable areas are still seeing strong growth in demand and sale completions.
“While the national time to sell has barely moved, that stability is masking a real divide opening up between local markets,” said Zoopla executive director Richard Donnell.
“In areas like Melton in Leicestershire, homes are taking noticeably longer to sell than a year ago, while markets just a short drive away are speeding up.”
