29:null 2a:["$","title",null,{"children":"University-town sale prices: two views of H1 2026 | Matt Lenzie | Observable"}] 2f:T7bc,# University-town sale prices: two views of H1 2026 **Student Accommodation Finance · January–June 2026 · Evidence cutoff: 12 September 2026** The H1 report records **19,871 general residential sales across eight English postal towns**. Explore how the median changes when the comparison is restricted to terraced homes. These are **not identified student properties, HMO comparables or PBSA valuations**. [Read the full H1 2026 report](https://studentaccommodationfinance.co.uk/insights/h1-2026-student-accommodation-finance-report/) · [Definitions and methodology](https://studentaccommodationfinance.co.uk/reports/h1-2026/methodology.md) · [Public data and validation](https://github.com/mattylll/saf-h1-2026-student-accommodation-finance-data) ### Read the comparison carefully All-residential medians cover detached, semi-detached and terraced homes and flats. Sales counts are for this full residential sample; terraced-only counts are not supplied in the published exhibit. Changing the category changes the mix being measured, not the dates. This is a cross-sectional comparison, not price growth. The source is the public report’s Exhibit 6, based on Construction Capital V2 / HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, with a file snapshot of 6 August 2026. Late registrations understate recent counts; postal towns are not university catchments. Property-mix medians are not a constant-quality index. The 24 published values were checked against the frozen report release; the private transaction ledger was not re-audited for this notebook. The report also covers [selected lender financing announcements](https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/30365796/). Those announcements measure different activity and should not be added to residential sale prices. **Explore below:** choose a price measure and sort order. The scale stays fixed at £450,000. The table and CSV retain both measures and the full-sample counts. Underlying source rights are retained.30:T1742,const towns = [{town:'Oxford',sales:559,all:440000,terraced:436500},{town:'Bristol',sales:4064,all:350000,terraced:344000},{town:'Exeter',sales:712,all:300000,terraced:270000},{town:'Southampton',sales:1928,all:295000,terraced:270000},{town:'Manchester',sales:4053,all:235000,terraced:210000},{town:'Leeds',sales:2854,all:230000,terraced:185000},{town:'Nottingham',sales:3358,all:220000,terraced:175000},{town:'Sheffield',sales:2343,all:205000,terraced:182750}]; const panel = document.createElement('section'); panel.className = 'saf-towns'; panel.innerHTML = '

Price measureSort towns

Median completed-sale price, January–June 2026. Fixed scale: £0–£450,000.

£0£450,000

Check the published numbers

Counts cover all residential sales, not just terraced homes. Scroll the table horizontally on a narrow screen.

Download all eight towns (CSV)

Source: SAF H1 2026 report, Exhibit 6. General residential context only; not student-property comparables. File snapshot: 6 August 2026.

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