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Data-driven studies of how UK house prices, planning, flood risk and neighbourhood factors actually behave, built from HM Land Registry and other official sources.

Move Insights Research · · 8 min read

The cost of a cold home: what Britain’s least efficient homes cost to heat, by band, age and area

Every EPC carries a modelled heating cost. A band G home costs £2,892 a year to heat against £529 for a band C. Pre-1900 homes cost £1,252. The most expensive areas to heat are rural and off the gas grid.

  • A band G home costs £2,892 a year to heat against £529 for a band C
  • Pre-1900 homes cost a modelled £1,252 a year
  • A home built in 2020 costs about £294 a year
  • 53% of all homes fall below band C
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By the numbers

Band G heating cost
£2,892/yr
Band C heating cost
£529/yr
Pre-1900 homes
£1,252/yr
Costliest seat
Westmorland & Lonsdale (£1,227)
Move Insights Research · · 9 min read

How Britain heats its homes: the gas heartlands, the oil-fired countryside, and the places switching to heat pumps

We analysed the main heating fuel on 23.4 million EPCs. Four in five homes run on gas. Rural Wales runs on oil. And heat-pump adoption is led by the same off-grid countryside, while the big cities have barely started.

  • Four in five homes run on a gas boiler
  • Only 1.6% of homes have a heat pump
  • Rural Wales is most off-grid: 35.7% on oil in Caerfyrddin
  • Heat-pump adoption leads in off-grid areas, not the cities
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By the numbers

Homes on mains gas
79.9%
Homes with a heat pump
1.6%
Most gas-dependent
Houghton & Sunderland S (97.5%)
Most oil-heated
Caerfyrddin (35.7%)
Move Insights Research · · 11 min read

The green premium, measured: how much more an energy-efficient home really sells for, and the towns where the rule reverses

We matched 156,960 England and Wales home sales to their Energy Performance Certificates. Efficient homes sell for about 6% to 7% more like-for-like, but the premium is a northern story. In Oxford, Cambridge and York the least efficient homes sell for more.

  • Efficient homes sell for about 11% more per square metre nationally
  • The premium is a northern story: North East +22%, Wales +21%
  • In Oxford, Cambridge and York the least efficient homes sell for more
  • A band G home costs £2,892 a year to heat against £529 for a band C
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By the numbers

Sales matched to EPCs
156,960
Efficient vs inefficient (£/m²)
+11%
Biggest town premium
Hartlepool (+62.3%)
Where it reverses
Oxford (−10.6%)
Move Insights Research · · 9 min read

Britain’s housing market has flipped: where UK house prices have risen and fallen most since 2020

New repeat-sales analysis of 21,722 same-property resales from HM Land Registry. Oldham leads the country at +44.83%. London medians sit at 11.16%. One in five London flats now sells below its 2020 price.

  • Same UK homes are up a median of 24% over five years
  • All 30 fastest-rising towns are in the North, Midlands or Wales
  • One in seven UK flats now sells below its 2020 price
  • Greater Manchester takes five of the UK's top fifteen
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By the numbers

Pairs analysed
21,722
National median 5-yr change
+24%
Fastest-growing town
Oldham (+44.83%)
London flats below 2020
19.10%

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