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North Hykeham market report LN6 8, Lincoln
The LN6 8 (North Hykeham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,826 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LN6 8 (Lincoln) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LN6 8 (Lincoln) is £236,500, from 72 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £249,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,826 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LN6 8 is one sector of LN6 (Lincoln): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LN6 8 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.
The going rate for a home in LN6 8
The 2026 median for LN6 8 is £236,500, taken from 72 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £249,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LN6 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LN6 8 costs about £2,660 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LN6 8 runs 17% below it.
LN6 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £236,500 | £236,500 | 72 |
| 2025 | £239,200 | £244,920 | 162 |
| 2024 | £222,800 | £236,882 | 146 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 150 |
| 2022 | £239,800 | £281,193 | 178 |
| 2021 | £215,200 | £272,471 | 244 |
| 2020 | £211,000 | £273,777 | 162 |
| 2019 | £188,500 | £247,078 | 187 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 200 |
| 2017 | £175,500 | £239,364 | 178 |
| 2016 | £171,000 | £239,231 | 206 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 215 |
| 2014 | £152,800 | £216,773 | 200 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 190 |
| 2012 | £148,000 | £217,838 | 153 |
| 2011 | £148,000 | £223,423 | 205 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 219 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 195 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 159 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 249 |
| 2006 | £146,200 | £253,785 | 248 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 137 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 176 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 151 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 210 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 191 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 207 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 193 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 167 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 165 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 172 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical LN6 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £236,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LN6 8 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 (+41.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−5.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LN6 8
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 72 LN6 8 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 196 sales a year before the financial crisis and 142 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 homes rent for around LN6 8
For renting purposes LN6 8 sits in North Kesteven. The ONS average private rent there is £828 a month (May 2026). 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 £236,500 median purchase price, a rent of £828 a month (£9,936 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
The shape of the LN6 8 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
LN6 8 (North Hykeham): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LN6 8 (North Hykeham)?
Are property prices falling in LN6 8 (North Hykeham)?
Is LN6 8 (North Hykeham) a good place to buy a house?
Will LN6 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 LN6 now
The live side of the market holds 334 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LN6 district, not just LN6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Church Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6
- Orchid Way, Witham St. Hughs, Lincoln
- The Mead, Lincoln, 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 LN6 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: LN prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LN area. 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
The spread across the LN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LN6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LN6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LN6 0 | £190,000 | 79 |
| LN6 3 | £200,000 | 38 |
| LN6 4 | £510,000 | 3 |
| LN6 5 | £275,000 | 17 |
| LN6 7 | £210,000 | 61 |
| LN6 9 | £250,000 | 139 |
Zoom out to the full LN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LN6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LN6 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LN6 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LN6 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LN6 8 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 LN6 8.
Keep digging
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See every individual LN6 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.