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Property: Sales

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many property transactions took place where the sale price was (a) more than £60,000, (b) more than £125,000, (c) more than £175,000 and (d) more than £250,000 in each year since 1997. (318740)

Land Registry is able to provide information on the total number of residential properties sold at full value1 in the requested categories in each year since 1997.

1 Full value = residential property transactions where the full price has been paid. The figures exclude a number of transactions including Right to Buy sales at a discount, properties sold by way of a gift and properties sold under a compulsory purchase or Court order.

> £60,000

> £125,000

> £175,000

> £250,000

1997

526,669

136,965

58,179

22,748

1998

555,992

162,900

73,348

27,890

1999

714,629

241,748

113,334

44,883

2000

731,825

285,573

141,665

57,075

2001

885,625

390,666

197,913

77,098

2002

1,059,497

561,588

302,707

118,723

2003

1,070,227

649,791

364,842

137,778

2004

1,161,199

794,686

472,424

186,086

2005

1,002,711

704,023

428,454

172,511

2006

1,278,538

935,560

592,777

253,268

2007

1,236,072

937,892

627,523

288,260

2008

626,892

458,917

303,879

139,478

2009

576,371

429,267

262,712

124,463