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South Lowestoft market report NR33, Lowestoft
The NR33 (South Lowestoft) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 24,245 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in NR33 (Lowestoft) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NR33 (Lowestoft) is £230,000, from 223 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £246,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 24,245 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NR33 is the postcode district covering South Lowestoft in Lowestoft. 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 NR33 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.
NR33 sold prices: where the market stands
223 sales were registered in NR33 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £246,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in NR33
Per square metre, NR33 homes have averaged around £2,880 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NR33 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
NR33's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 223 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 600 |
| 2024 | £227,000 | £241,348 | 556 |
| 2023 | £227,500 | £249,967 | 509 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 690 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 783 |
| 2020 | £184,200 | £239,003 | 558 |
| 2019 | £176,000 | £230,694 | 679 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 700 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 719 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 725 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 659 |
| 2014 | £142,000 | £201,452 | 756 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 660 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 577 |
| 2011 | £127,000 | £191,721 | 585 |
| 2010 | £127,000 | £199,169 | 535 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 552 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 499 |
| 2007 | £139,000 | £235,783 | 965 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 1,232 |
| 2005 | £122,000 | £217,111 | 895 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 1,069 |
| 2003 | £103,000 | £189,751 | 1,099 |
| 2002 | £79,700 | £149,955 | 1,092 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 1,187 |
| 2000 | £54,900 | £107,741 | 941 |
| 1999 | £47,200 | £94,067 | 998 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 844 |
| 1997 | £42,200 | £86,544 | 876 |
| 1996 | £41,800 | £88,154 | 806 |
| 1995 | £41,100 | £89,345 | 676 |
In cash terms the typical NR33 home went from £41,100 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% 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 NR33 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 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £285,000 against £101,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, NR33
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 | £285,000 | 82 | 7,801 |
| Semi-detached | £229,500 | 62 | 7,579 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 71 | 8,166 |
| Flats | £101,500 | 8 | 699 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in NR33
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 482 NR33 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 1,060 sales a year before the financial crisis and 516 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.
Reading the NR33 market
In its area's price order NR33 comes 30 of 35, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around NR33
NR33 falls under East Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £834 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £597 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,332, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£834 a month is £10,008 a year, which against the £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
NR33 (South Lowestoft): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in NR33 (South Lowestoft)?
Is NR33 (South Lowestoft) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NR33 (South Lowestoft)?
Are NR33 prices heading up or down?
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 is for sale in NR33 right now
Everything above is what homes in NR33 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 176 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the NR33 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Whites Lane, Kessingland, Lowestoft
- Sunningdale Avenue, Pakefield, Lowestoft
- Beech Road, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft
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 NR33 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: NR prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the NR area, straight 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 | — | £280,000 | £375,246 (+34%) | £545,000 (+45%) | £750,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £245,000 (+17%) | £289,950 (+18%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £515,000 (+37%) |
| Terraced | £185,000 | £215,000 (+16%) | £245,000 (+14%) | £335,000 (+37%) | £423,750 (+26%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £182,500 (+30%) | £280,000 (+53%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
NR33 ranks 3 of 35 in the NR 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.
NR area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NR33, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NR33 0 | £185,000 | 46 |
| NR33 7 | £225,000 | 61 |
| NR33 8 | £262,500 | 80 |
| NR33 9 | £222,200 | 36 |
How NR33 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NR area, and NR33 itself, which ranks 30 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NR25 | £430,000 | +8% |
| NR22 | £375,000 | +9% |
| NR23 | £370,000 | -13% |
| NR26 | £350,000 | +11% |
| NR4 | £337,500 | +4% |
| NR16 | £336,500 | -2% |
| NR14 | £325,000 | -3% |
| NR24 | £321,000 | +1% |
| NR13 | £318,800 | +1% |
| NR11 | £318,000 | +6% |
| NR9 | £315,000 | +9% |
| NR20 | £314,500 | -1% |
| NR10 | £290,000 | +5% |
| NR18 | £285,000 | +1% |
| NR34 | £285,000 | +3% |
| NR7 | £280,000 | +8% |
| NR8 | £280,000 | +6% |
| NR12 | £280,000 | -7% |
| NR15 | £277,500 | -9% |
| NR21 | £275,000 | +1% |
| NR27 | £275,000 | -6% |
| NR2 | £272,400 | +8% |
| NR6 | £270,000 | +8% |
| NR33 (this report) | £230,000 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in NR33? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NR33, open the average prices map and zoom from the NR33 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NR33 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 NR33.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NR33 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NR33 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.
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.