Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 305,855 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the PR postcode area (Preston) 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.
PR is the postcode area centred on Preston, taking in 11 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where PR sits
Click the map to open PR on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£200,000median sold price, 2026
+5%five-year change (cash)
7,664sales in the last 12 months
4.8%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in PR sells for
The 2026 median in PR is £200,000, from 2,155 registered sales; the mean, £228,900, 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 PR trades 27% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical PR 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
£200,000
£200,000
2,155
2025
£210,000
£210,000
9,985
2024
£206,000
£213,905
10,381
2023
£200,000
£214,619
10,156
2022
£200,000
£229,046
12,360
2021
£190,000
£234,946
13,470
2020
£177,200
£224,551
9,926
2019
£167,500
£214,425
10,768
2018
£162,000
£210,906
10,933
2017
£162,000
£215,792
10,557
2016
£155,000
£211,782
10,234
2015
£150,000
£207,000
9,474
2014
£145,000
£200,904
8,713
2013
£142,500
£200,255
6,896
2012
£140,000
£201,250
5,716
2011
£140,000
£206,410
5,912
2010
£144,000
£220,555
6,089
2009
£140,500
£220,580
5,676
2008
£140,000
£224,130
5,770
2007
£145,000
£240,216
11,784
2006
£140,000
£237,346
12,044
2005
£132,000
£229,421
9,808
2004
£125,000
£221,722
11,775
2003
£97,500
£175,424
12,540
2002
£78,000
£143,329
13,668
2001
£66,200
£124,294
12,004
2000
£60,000
£115,000
10,917
1999
£57,800
£112,502
10,517
1998
£55,400
£109,217
9,740
1997
£53,000
£106,154
10,135
1996
£50,500
£104,015
8,644
1995
£49,000
£104,031
7,108
In cash terms the typical PR home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PR 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.8%). 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)
−4.8%
−4.8%
5 years (since 2021)
+1.0%
−3.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.6%
−0.6%
20 years (since 2006)
+1.8%
−0.9%
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.
PR recorded 7,664 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 11,818 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9,007 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 PR
PR falls under South Ribble, the local authority covering most of the PR area (parts fall under Preston and Chorley, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £793 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £553 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,251, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Ribble
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £200,000 median sold price, £793 a month is £9,516 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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 PR prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 15% 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
The spread across the PR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, PR area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every PR district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
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.