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Waddington market report LN5 9, Lincoln
The LN5 9 (Waddington) 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: 6,651 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LN5 9 (Lincoln) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical LN5 9 (Lincoln) home changed hands for £225,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £259,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,651 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LN5 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LN5 (Lincoln). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LN5 9 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.
LN5 9 sold prices: where the market stands
69 sales were registered in LN5 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £259,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
LN5 9 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put LN5 9 at roughly £2,700 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LN5 9 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LN5 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £246,000 | £251,883 | 195 |
| 2024 | £222,400 | £236,457 | 143 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 153 |
| 2022 | £240,500 | £282,014 | 248 |
| 2021 | £221,500 | £280,448 | 338 |
| 2020 | £237,500 | £308,161 | 206 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 247 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 183 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 213 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 248 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 219 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 177 |
| 2013 | £138,800 | £199,719 | 182 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 137 |
| 2011 | £156,000 | £235,500 | 129 |
| 2010 | £133,800 | £209,833 | 134 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 139 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 124 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 239 |
| 2006 | £139,000 | £241,286 | 287 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 153 |
| 2004 | £138,800 | £252,088 | 206 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 228 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 297 |
| 2001 | £68,500 | £131,688 | 378 |
| 2000 | £64,200 | £125,993 | 296 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 258 |
| 1998 | £51,200 | £103,351 | 224 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 210 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 195 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 196 |
In cash terms the typical LN5 9 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £225,000 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. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LN5 9 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 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.5% | −10.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 69 LN5 9 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 261 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around LN5 9
The local authority for LN5 9 is North Kesteven, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £828 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £582 a month here against £1,316 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Kesteven
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £225,000 median sold price, £828 a month is £9,936 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
How LN5 9 trades
Against the LN5 district median, LN5 9 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: LN5 9 (Waddington)
Are property prices falling in LN5 9 (Waddington)?
Is LN5 9 (Waddington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LN5 9 (Waddington)?
Will LN5 9 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 20% 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.
LN5's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 171 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LN5 district, not just LN5 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Primrose Close, Lincoln, Lincoln
- Bells Court, Carlton-Le-Moorland, LN5, Lincoln
- Brewery Lane, Carlton-Le-Moorland, LN5, Lincoln
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LN5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LN area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LN5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LN5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LN5 0 | £305,000 | 31 |
| LN5 7 | £135,000 | 29 |
| LN5 8 | £151,000 | 65 |
Zoom out to the full LN5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LN5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LN5 9? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LN5 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LN5 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LN5 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LN5 9 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.