Standing view · housing · Enfield
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2026-07.
Homes sold in Enfield fell from 128 in March 2026 to 113 in April. Rents rose in every reading: a two-bedroom home cost £1,710 a month in March 2026, £1,727 in May, £1,741 in June and £1,758 in July, and a semi-detached home £2,360 in April. Households served a no-fault eviction notice and owed a prevention duty fell to 37 in the first quarter of 2026. Rents rising every month while transactions fell is the central tension in these figures.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Enfield. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Prevention duty, section 21 notice | 2026-Q1 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 2026-03 | falling |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-03 | rising |
| Homes sold | 2026-04 | falling |
| Average private rent, semi-detached | 2026-04 | rising |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-05 | rising |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-06 | rising |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-07 | rising |