May 2025 brought a notable lift in agreed home sales, according to a snapshot published by property portal Rightmove on 5 June that year. The figures are historical: they describe a single month in 2025 and should not be read as an update on today’s market.
Rightmove said the number of sales agreed across Great Britain was 6% higher than in May 2024. The change was uneven across the country. Its reported year-on-year increase was 15% in Wales and 1% in London. Those percentages describe activity recorded by the portal, rather than completed purchases or official sold-price measures.
That distinction matters. An agreed sale usually means a seller has accepted an offer; the transaction still has to progress through conveyancing and may not complete. Rightmove’s portal data can therefore offer a timely indication of activity among people moving through its platform, but it is not a count of homes that have legally changed hands. Completion and price statistics are measured differently and may be published later.
The same report listed local areas where agreed sales had risen most compared with the previous year. Outside London, the reported increases included 88% in Heywood and 85% in Pudsey. Rightmove also said nine of the ten leading hotspots outside the capital had average asking prices below the national average. These are asking prices and portal activity figures, not evidence that every property in those places is affordable or that prices there subsequently rose.
Regional differences provide context, not a simple explanation. A percentage change can look large when it starts from a smaller base, and one month cannot establish a lasting trend. The figures do not show what happened to each agreed sale, nor do they tell an individual buyer or seller what their own move will cost. They are best read alongside later completion data and other market measures, with the source and reporting date kept in view.
Takeaway
Rightmove’s June 2025 report recorded more sales agreed in May than in any May since 2021, with different rates of change across Wales, London and selected local hotspots. It was a snapshot of activity on one property portal—not a measure of completed transactions and not a forecast.
Source: Rightmove, 5 June 2025 — https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/property-news/busiest-may-sales-agreed-since-2021/