312,691 UK sales collapsed last year — Source: TwentyCI

312,691 property sales collapsed last year. Check your postcode.

Enter any UK postcode to see local fall-through rates, average buyer losses, and how PurchaseSecured protects your area. Data sourced from Land Registry, TwentyCI & Zoopla.

312,691
Sales collapsed
in last 12 months
£8.6bn
Total cost of
fall-throughs (2024)
123 days
Avg. time to
exchange contracts
2.8%
Fall-through with
PurchaseSecured

Fall-through rates by postcode area

Click any postcode to see detailed fall-through data, costs, and protection options for that area. Rates derived from TwentyCI transaction data and Land Registry records.

📊

Where does this data come from?

Fall-through rates are derived from TwentyCI/TwentyEA quarterly Property & Homemover Reports, which track 99.6% of all UK residential listings. Average prices from HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. Market activity data from Zoopla HPI and PropertyData. Regional exchange times from TwentyCI (avg. 123 days nationally, ranging from 107 days in North East to 140 days in Outer London). Updated monthly.

About UK property fall-through data

Our data is compiled from TwentyCI/TwentyEA, who track 99.6% of UK residential listings using over 4,500 data sources. We cross-reference with HM Land Registry transaction data, Zoopla's House Price Index, and PropertyData's postcode-level analytics. Regional fall-through rates are calibrated against TwentyCI's quarterly Property & Homemover Reports (312,691 cancelled purchases in the last 12 months).

National statistics update monthly. TwentyCI publishes quarterly reports with detailed regional breakdowns. Land Registry price data updates monthly (with a 2-3 month lag). We refresh postcode-level estimates monthly and regional benchmarks quarterly.

Higher-value areas tend to have higher fall-through rates because financing is more complex, chains are longer, and gazumping is more lucrative. TwentyCI data shows Outer London and East of England have the longest exchange times (4.6 months), while Scotland's different legal system achieves just 2.9 months. The North East has the lowest rates in England at 3.6 months.

It's the percentage of agreed sales (Sold Subject to Contract) that fail to reach exchange of contracts. According to TwentyCI, 4.9% of all sales in agents' pipelines fell through in February 2026, with a weekly gross fall-through rate of around 19.6%. The long-term average is 24.2%, though post-mini-budget levels exceeded 40%.

A legally-binding reservation agreement with Stripe-secured creates genuine commitment. The buyer's reservation fee (held by our secure account partner) means both parties have skin in the game from day one. If either side breaks the agreement, the other receives compensation of up to £10,000.