House prices in some London boroughs have surged by nearly 30% over the last year, Land Registry figures show.

Across England and Wales, property values lifted by 7.7% year on year to reach £177,377 in October, also marking a 0.1% uplift on the previous month. Price growth across the capital started to accelerate again last month after the pace of increases fell back in September.

At £460,060 on average, London prices are 18.6% higher than they were a year ago, edging up from a 17.5% annual increase in September although not quite as high as a 20.6% year-on-year jump seen in the capital in August.

The London borough with the strongest price growth is Lambeth, where values have lifted by 27.9% year on year to reach £540,819 on average. An annual price increase of 27.8% was recorded in Southwark and one of 25.9% was seen in Lewisham in the year to October.

But in signs that the prime central areas of the capital are cooling off slightly as buyers become a little more cautious, Kensington and Chelsea, where the typical property price tag is £1.28 million, recorded the weakest annual growth of all the London boroughs, with a 9.5% increase.

Kensington and Chelsea is being outpaced by several areas of southern England in terms of its annual percentage increase in property prices, as the property market recovery ripples out and house hunters look for value outside the capital.

In Bristol, prices have lifted by 12% year-on-year; in Hertfordshire values are up by 12.8%; in Kent prices are up by 9.7%; in Oxfordshire they have increased by 11.4%; in Milton Keynes they have risen by 10.7%; in Surrey they are up by 13.6%; in Windsor and Maidenhead they have grown by 12.5%; in South Gloucestershire they are up by 9.8%, and in Reading they have seen a 12.8% annual uplift.

Slough has also recorded a large 16.5% jump in house prices over the last year, which is a faster rate of annual growth than several London boroughs.

Every region across the country recorded higher prices in October than a year earlier, with growth in London generally continuing to be significantly stronger than that seen in the rest of the country.

The South East was the region with the second strongest rate of annual price growth, at 11.4%, followed by the East at 11.0%.

Wales has seen the slowest annual growth in house prices, with a 2.0% increase taking average values there to £188,437.