The average price tag on a home edged down by £12 month-on-month in February following a record jump of nearly £10,000 in January, according to a property website.
Across Britain, the average asking price for a home coming on the market in February is £368,019, Rightmove said.
In January, the average price tag on a home was £368,031.
Rightmove previously said the £9,893 average asking price increase seen in January 2026 was the biggest for the month of January in its 25 years of house price studies.
Over the past decade, asking prices in February have typically increased by 0.8% month-on-month.
But despite the average asking price standstill in February, January’s record asking price increase for the time of year means that 2026 is still the strongest start to a year for asking prices since 2020, with prices up by 2.8% since December, Rightmove said.
It said early year price…
