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Castle Bytham market report NG33 5, Grantham
The standing NG33 5 (Castle Bytham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,868 registered sales in NG33 5 (Grantham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: a typical NG33 5 (Grantham) home changed hands for £232,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £295,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,510 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,868 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
NG33 5 is one sector of NG33 (Grantham): 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 NG33 5 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.
Today's NG33 5 prices, from the sold record
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NG33 5 home went for £232,000. The mean is £295,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
NG33 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in NG33 5 have sold for about £2,510 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 NG33 5 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NG33 5 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £232,000 | £232,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 85 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 69 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 51 |
| 2022 | £268,800 | £315,199 | 82 |
| 2021 | £237,200 | £300,326 | 104 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 67 |
| 2019 | £194,800 | £255,336 | 72 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 79 |
| 2017 | £174,000 | £237,319 | 89 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 105 |
| 2015 | £152,000 | £214,776 | 91 |
| 2014 | £152,500 | £216,348 | 106 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 83 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 68 |
| 2011 | £159,200 | £240,331 | 80 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 76 |
| 2009 | £158,000 | £253,986 | 57 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 79 |
| 2007 | £136,200 | £231,033 | 104 |
| 2006 | £132,500 | £230,003 | 121 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 74 |
| 2004 | £135,700 | £246,458 | 112 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 127 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 133 |
| 2001 | £72,200 | £138,801 | 134 |
| 2000 | £66,700 | £130,899 | 154 |
| 1999 | £70,400 | £140,304 | 122 |
| 1998 | £53,200 | £107,388 | 90 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 92 |
| 1996 | £44,100 | £93,005 | 68 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical NG33 5 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £232,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 143%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NG33 5 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 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−25.6%). 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) | −15.6% | −17.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in NG33 5
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.
The register shows 27 NG33 5 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 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
The shape of the NG33 5 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NG33 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within NG33, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around NG33 5
For renting purposes NG33 5 sits in South Kesteven. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £580 a month here against £1,312 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Kesteven
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £232,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: NG33 5 (Castle Bytham)
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What happens to NG33 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
NG33's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NG33 district, not just NG33 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Bourne Road Estate, Colsterworth, Grantham, Lincolnshire
- Chapel Lane, Ingoldsby, NG33, Grantham
- Spring Lane, Colsterworth, Grantham
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 NG33 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 NG
Real sold prices by size across the NG area, straight 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 | — | £242,000 | £340,000 (+40%) | £500,000 (+47%) | £685,000 (+37%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £195,000 (+15%) | £235,000 (+21%) | £330,000 (+40%) | £462,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £154,000 | £165,000 (+7%) | £185,000 (+12%) | £250,000 (+35%) | £328,500 (+31%) |
| Flat | £118,800 | £151,000 (+27%) | £220,000 (+46%) | £397,500 (+81%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, NG area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NG33
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NG33, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NG33 4 | £340,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full NG33 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NG33 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NG33 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NG33 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the NG33 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NG33 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NG33 5.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual NG33 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.