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City Centre market report PR1 9, Preston
The PR1 9 (City Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,164 HM Land Registry entries for PR1 9 (Preston), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical PR1 9 (Preston) home changed hands for £197,500 in 2026 (median of 80 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £215,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,164 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
PR1 9 is one sector of PR1 (Preston): 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 PR1 9 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.
What PR1 9 homes really sell for
In the PR1 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £197,500, from 80 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £215,600, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PR1 9
By floor space, homes in PR1 9 have sold for about £2,480 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 PR1 9 trades 31% below the country as a whole.
PR1 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £197,500 | £197,500 | 80 |
| 2025 | £206,000 | £210,926 | 225 |
| 2024 | £202,500 | £215,299 | 240 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 186 |
| 2022 | £187,800 | £220,217 | 230 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 250 |
| 2020 | £183,000 | £237,446 | 197 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 215 |
| 2018 | £151,000 | £201,286 | 238 |
| 2017 | £147,000 | £200,493 | 179 |
| 2016 | £140,500 | £196,561 | 218 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 224 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 206 |
| 2013 | £127,000 | £182,740 | 160 |
| 2012 | £132,000 | £194,288 | 149 |
| 2011 | £128,000 | £193,231 | 131 |
| 2010 | £128,200 | £201,051 | 134 |
| 2009 | £124,000 | £199,331 | 130 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 139 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 319 |
| 2006 | £128,000 | £222,192 | 310 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 308 |
| 2004 | £129,800 | £235,742 | 364 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 313 |
| 2002 | £69,600 | £130,952 | 342 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 281 |
| 2000 | £55,200 | £108,330 | 300 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 242 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 219 |
| 1997 | £48,700 | £99,874 | 256 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 176 |
| 1995 | £46,200 | £100,432 | 203 |
In cash terms the typical PR1 9 home went from £46,200 in 1995 to £197,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 97%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PR1 9 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 (+52.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−7.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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 PR1 9
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 80 sales completed in PR1 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 317 sales a year before the financial crisis and 192 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around PR1 9
The local authority for PR1 9 is South Ribble, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £793 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £553 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,251 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Ribble
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£793 a month is £9,516 a year, which against the £197,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Reading the PR1 9 market
Against the PR1 district median, PR1 9 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about PR1 9 (City Centre)
Is PR1 9 (City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PR1 9 (City Centre)?
Are property prices falling in PR1 9 (City Centre)?
Are PR1 9 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in PR1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 86 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PR1 district, not just PR1 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 PR1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in PR
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PR area. 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 | — | £243,000 | £325,000 (+34%) | £475,000 (+46%) | £654,500 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £164,975 | £189,950 (+15%) | £228,000 (+20%) | £295,000 (+29%) | £410,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £126,180 | £138,000 (+9%) | £167,850 (+22%) | £233,000 (+39%) | £300,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £98,000 | £130,000 (+33%) | £195,000 (+50%) | £280,000 (+44%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PR 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 PR1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PR1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PR1 0 | £304,500 | 47 |
| PR1 1 | £107,000 | 11 |
| PR1 2 | £98,500 | 2 |
| PR1 3 | £150,000 | 5 |
| PR1 4 | £142,500 | 16 |
| PR1 5 | £106,800 | 30 |
| PR1 6 | £129,000 | 26 |
| PR1 7 | £116,200 | 14 |
| PR1 8 | £115,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full PR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PR1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in PR1 9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PR1 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PR1 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PR1 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual PR1 9 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.