Revised: the average Rugby home lost £779 in twelve months, not the £440 gain first published. Rugby is bottom of Warwickshire for a second month running.
Correction, 20 September 2026. HM Land Registry has revised the June figures since this article was published. June’s average is now £274,989, £1,219 lower than the £276,208 below, and the annual change is now -0.3%, a fall of £779, rather than the +0.2% gain reported here. The revision reverses the direction. The article as first published is left below, unchanged; the full revised picture is in our July write-up.
The average home in Rugby borough was worth £276,208 in June 2026. Twelve months earlier it was worth £275,768.
That is a gain of £440, or about £37 a month. Over the same year the average Warwick home gained £16,808.
The figures are from the UK House Price Index, which HM Land Registry publishes monthly from completed sales. June is the most recent month available.
Bottom of the county, two months running
Rugby’s 0.2% annual increase is the smallest of Warwickshire’s five districts. It was also the smallest in May. Before that, from January to April, the county’s weakest district was North Warwickshire.
| District | Average, June 2026 | 12-month change | Gain in £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warwick | £372,922 | +4.7% | +£16,808 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £230,734 | +4.2% | +£9,373 |
| North Warwickshire | £270,450 | +2.7% | +£7,056 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | £392,574 | +1.4% | +£5,564 |
| Rugby | £276,208 | +0.2% | +£440 |
| Warwickshire | £308,618 | +2.7% | +£8,160 |
| England | £293,262 | +1.8% | +£5,147 |
The comparison worth sitting with is Nuneaton and Bedworth. It is the cheapest district in the county, £45,474 below Rugby, and its average home still gained more than twenty times what a Rugby home gained.
Rugby is also £8,616 below its own high point of £284,824, recorded in August 2025. That is the highest monthly figure the borough has posted at any point since January 2022.
The two ends of the market went different ways
The flat borough figure hides a split. Over the twelve months to June:
- Semi-detached homes rose 0.9%, to an average of £277,640
- Terraced homes rose 0.8%, to £216,348
- Detached homes fell 0.4%, to £454,537
- Flats and maisonettes fell 2.4%, to £127,127
So the parts of the Rugby market that first-time buyers and second-steppers use held their value or edged up. The expensive end and the cheapest end both went backwards. The average first-time buyer purchase in the borough was £232,545, up 0.5% on the year.
On the month rather than the year, everything moved in the same direction: the borough average rose 0.5% between May and June, and each of the four property types rose between 0.4% and 0.5%.
Read the number carefully
Three caveats matter with this series, and local coverage often skips them.
- This is a mean, not a median. A handful of large sales pulls the average up in a way that a typical buyer never sees. The mean is the figure the UK HPI publishes, so it is the one we quote, but it is not the price of a typical Rugby house.
- Recent months get revised. May’s average was published as £274,942, the figure we carried last month, and now stands at £274,877, £65 lower. Revisions are routine as more completions are registered, and they can be far larger than that.
- The index runs on completions. June’s figure reflects sales agreed several months earlier, so it describes the market in spring rather than the market today.
What it means for you
- If you are selling, the borough figure says the Rugby market moved sideways over the past year while its neighbours moved up. If you bought at the August 2025 peak, the index puts the average home about £8,600 below that today.
- If you are buying, Rugby has quietly become cheaper relative to the county. It is now £32,410 below the Warwickshire average and £96,714 below Warwick, against a gap to Warwick of £80,346 a year ago.
- If you own a flat, yours is the one type the index shows falling meaningfully, down 2.4% over the year.
Our Rugby house prices page carries the full picture, including the borough’s own wards and how Rugby compares with Coventry and West Northamptonshire. July’s claimant count by ward and the borough’s planning caseload are worth reading alongside it.
Correction note. As set out at the top of this article, the June average was revised from £276,208 to £274,989 on 20 September 2026, and the annual change from +0.2% to -0.3%. Revisions to the UK House Price Index are routine as more completions are registered with HM Land Registry. The district comparisons in the table above are the figures as published in August 2026 and have not been restated; the July figures for every Warwickshire district are in our July write-up.
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