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Branston market report LN4, Lincoln
The LN4 (Branston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 22,894 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LN4 (Lincoln) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LN4 (Lincoln) is £245,000, from 248 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £273,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 22,894 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LN4 is a postcode district covering Branston, Canwick, Coningsby in Lincoln. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where LN4 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.
LN4 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 248 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LN4 home went for £245,000. The mean is £273,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LN4
By floor space, homes in LN4 have sold for about £2,590 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LN4 trades 14% below the country as a whole.
LN4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 248 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 625 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 604 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 605 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 759 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 913 |
| 2020 | £210,000 | £272,479 | 561 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 708 |
| 2018 | £188,500 | £251,274 | 695 |
| 2017 | £179,500 | £244,820 | 716 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 769 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 700 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 654 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 627 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 511 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 483 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 499 |
| 2009 | £138,000 | £221,836 | 467 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 458 |
| 2007 | £151,000 | £256,138 | 797 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 926 |
| 2005 | £138,000 | £245,584 | 798 |
| 2004 | £132,000 | £239,738 | 965 |
| 2003 | £113,000 | £208,173 | 989 |
| 2002 | £89,200 | £167,829 | 1,081 |
| 2001 | £70,500 | £135,533 | 1,137 |
| 2000 | £65,500 | £128,544 | 983 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 950 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 769 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 798 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 625 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 474 |
In cash terms the typical LN4 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LN4 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 2003 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 58% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £298,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, LN4
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 | £298,000 | 145 | 13,194 |
| Semi-detached | £207,500 | 67 | 6,011 |
| Terraced | £170,000 | 29 | 3,107 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 7 | 571 |
Sales activity in LN4
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 506 LN4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 960 sales a year before the financial crisis and 568 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How LN4 trades
Among the 13 measurable districts of its area, LN4 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of LN4
LN4 falls under North Kesteven, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £828 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £582 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,316, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Kesteven
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £828 a month (£9,936 a year) works out at a 4.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: LN4 (Branston)
How much did a house sell for in LN4 (Branston)?
Are property prices falling in LN4 (Branston)?
Is LN4 (Branston) a good place to buy a house?
Are LN4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in LN4 today
Everything above is what homes in LN4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 170 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the LN4 median sold price.
32% 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.
- Hawthorn Hill, Dogdyke, Lincoln
- Cromwell Close, Washingborough, LN4, Washingborough
- Park Lane, 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 LN4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in LN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LN area, 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
LN4 ranks 4 of 13 in the LN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
LN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LN4, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LN4 1 | £250,000 | 87 |
| LN4 2 | £247,500 | 64 |
| LN4 3 | £242,500 | 50 |
| LN4 4 | £208,300 | 47 |
How LN4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LN10 | £375,000 | +21% |
| LN7 | £260,000 | +8% |
| LN4 (this report) | £245,000 | +9% |
| LN6 | £228,000 | +10% |
| LN11 | £225,000 | +7% |
| LN1 | £222,500 | -3% |
| LN2 | £221,000 | -2% |
| LN8 | £215,000 | -7% |
| LN3 | £212,500 | +1% |
| LN12 | £210,000 | +17% |
| LN5 | £190,000 | -5% |
| LN9 | £190,000 | -12% |
| LN13 | £170,200 | -17% |
Selling in LN4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LN4, open the average prices map and zoom from the LN4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LN4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Two maps carry on from here: every LN4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.