Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 35,845 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LN6 (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.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
LN6 is the postcode district covering North Hykeham, South Hykeham, Birchwood in Lincoln. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LN6 sits
Click the map to open LN6 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£225,000median sold price, 2026
+10%five-year change (cash)
872sales in the last 12 months
5.1%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in LN6 sells for
The 2026 median in LN6 is £225,000, from 269 registered sales; the mean, £257,000, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so LN6 trades 18% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LN6 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£225,000
£225,000
269
2025
£229,500
£229,500
1,070
2024
£225,000
£233,634
1,019
2023
£217,500
£233,398
833
2022
£218,000
£249,660
1,138
2021
£205,000
£253,495
1,457
2020
£195,000
£247,107
1,062
2019
£185,000
£236,827
1,277
2018
£182,000
£236,943
1,321
2017
£175,000
£233,108
1,361
2016
£165,000
£225,446
1,404
2015
£155,000
£213,900
1,412
2014
£146,500
£202,982
1,290
2013
£138,000
£193,931
1,014
2012
£135,000
£194,063
885
2011
£131,000
£193,141
898
2010
£135,500
£207,536
891
2009
£132,000
£207,235
849
2008
£140,000
£224,130
877
2007
£145,000
£240,216
1,533
2006
£136,100
£230,735
1,455
2005
£131,500
£228,552
1,073
2004
£125,000
£221,722
1,203
2003
£105,000
£188,918
1,185
2002
£81,800
£150,312
1,455
2001
£63,000
£118,286
1,396
2000
£57,000
£109,250
1,209
1999
£52,000
£101,213
1,156
1998
£50,700
£99,951
982
1997
£49,000
£98,142
1,053
1996
£47,000
£96,806
961
1995
£46,000
£97,662
857
In cash terms the typical LN6 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 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LN6 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 2002 (+29.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). 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)
−2.0%
−2.0%
5 years (since 2021)
+1.9%
−2.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.2%
0.0%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.5%
−0.1%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LN6 recorded 872 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 866 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
LN6 falls under Lincoln, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £951 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £665 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,373, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Lincoln
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £225,000 median sold price, £951 a month is £11,412 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
Will LN6 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 11% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
LN6 ranks 5 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.
Five-year change in the median, LN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LN6, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.