Savills' latest UK Housing Market Update, published this September, confirms a trend that has been building for eighteen months: the traditional dominance of London and the South East as the engine of national house price growth has been decisively overtaken by regional markets in the North of England and the Midlands. The agency's data shows mainstream UK house prices rising by 2.8% in the year to September 2026, but that headline figure masks a striking geographic split, with the North West, Yorkshire and the North East recording growth in excess of 4.5%, while London manages barely 1.2% and parts of the South East remain flat or marginally negative in real terms.