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Lincoln market report LN
The LN (Lincoln) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 180,170 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the LN postcode area (Lincoln) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 1,792 registered 2026 sales put the the LN postcode area (Lincoln) median at £220,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £248,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,570 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 180,170 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The LN postcode area centred on Lincoln covers 13 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where LN sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in LN
The LN median stands at £220,000 for 2026, built from 1,792 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £248,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
LN prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LN sales average about £2,570 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LN sits 23% below the national market.
A typical LN home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 1,792 |
| 2025 | £233,500 | £239,084 | 5,091 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 4,581 |
| 2023 | £222,000 | £243,924 | 4,284 |
| 2022 | £226,500 | £265,597 | 5,976 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 7,394 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 4,848 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 5,632 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 5,647 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 5,829 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 6,000 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 5,822 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 5,809 |
| 2013 | £138,000 | £198,568 | 4,914 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 4,169 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 4,058 |
| 2010 | £138,500 | £217,204 | 4,059 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 3,964 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 4,221 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 7,593 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 7,655 |
| 2005 | £131,000 | £233,127 | 5,650 |
| 2004 | £127,500 | £231,565 | 7,115 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 7,036 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 8,192 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 8,106 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 6,903 |
| 1999 | £52,700 | £105,028 | 6,756 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 5,697 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 5,928 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 5,028 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 4,421 |
In cash terms the typical LN home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LN median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−5.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £300,000 against £117,800 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, LN
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £300,000 | 831 | 82,539 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 488 | 48,554 |
| Terraced | £163,000 | 399 | 41,697 |
| Flats | £117,800 | 74 | 7,380 |
What LN has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in LN
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 3,899 sales completed in LN. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 7,281 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,345 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of LN
LN falls under East Lindsey, the local authority covering most of the LN area (parts fall under Lincoln and West Lindsey, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £694 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £515 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,131, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Lindsey
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £220,000 median sold price, £694 a month is £8,328 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on LN (Lincoln)
Is LN (Lincoln) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LN (Lincoln)?
Are property prices falling in LN (Lincoln)?
Will LN prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in LN now
Everything above is what homes in LN sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1,617 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the LN median sold price.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- James Court, Welton, LN2, Welton
- Hawthorn Hill, Dogdyke, Lincoln
- Cromwell Close, Washingborough, LN4, Washingborough
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LN home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: LN prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the LN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £225,000 | £315,000 (+40%) | £449,950 (+43%) | £600,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £167,500 | £189,045 (+13%) | £230,000 (+22%) | £285,500 (+24%) | £420,000 (+47%) |
| Terraced | £137,500 | £152,500 (+11%) | £190,000 (+25%) | £250,000 (+32%) | — |
| Flat | £110,000 | £130,000 (+18%) | £196,000 (+51%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every LN district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| LN10 Woodhall Spa, Kirkstead | £375,000 | +21% | 35 |
| LN7 Nettleton, Caistor | £260,000 | +8% | 31 |
| LN4 Branston, Canwick | £245,000 | +9% | 248 |
| LN6 North Hykeham, South Hykeham | £228,000 | +10% | 408 |
| LN11 Louth | £225,000 | +7% | 163 |
| LN1 Saxilby, Ermine Estates | £222,500 | -3% | 168 |
| LN2 Nettleham, St Giles Estates | £221,000 | -2% | 231 |
| LN8 Market Rasen | £215,000 | -7% | 95 |
| LN3 Fiskerton, Cherry Willingham | £212,500 | +1% | 42 |
| LN12 Mablethorpe, Sutton-on-Sea | £210,000 | +17% | 84 |
| LN5 Waddington, Bassingham | £190,000 | -5% | 194 |
| LN9 Horncastle, Tetford | £190,000 | -12% | 57 |
| LN13 East Lindsey | £170,200 | -17% | 36 |
Thinking of selling in LN? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LN, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LN's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LN sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LN.
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Two maps carry on from here: every LN sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.