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Ashton On Ribble market report PR2, Preston
The PR2 (Ashton On Ribble) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 41,543 registered sales in PR2 (Preston) 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for PR2 (Preston) is £194,000, from 415 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £214,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 41,543 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district PR2 covering Ashton On Ribble, Brookfield, Cadley sits in Preston. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PR2 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.
The going rate for a home in PR2
Take the 415 registered 2026 sales in PR2 and the middle price, the median, is £194,000. The mean lands at £214,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PR2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PR2 sales average about £2,210 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PR2 runs 32% below it.
PR2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £194,000 | £194,000 | 415 |
| 2025 | £193,000 | £197,615 | 1,198 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 1,073 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 1,003 |
| 2022 | £178,000 | £208,725 | 1,231 |
| 2021 | £172,000 | £217,774 | 1,411 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 980 |
| 2019 | £148,900 | £195,172 | 1,088 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 1,239 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 1,141 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 1,047 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 1,122 |
| 2014 | £135,500 | £192,230 | 1,076 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 938 |
| 2012 | £133,500 | £196,495 | 918 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 817 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 918 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 982 |
| 2008 | £129,000 | £211,458 | 905 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 1,829 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 1,933 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 1,584 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 1,882 |
| 2003 | £88,000 | £162,117 | 1,946 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 2,012 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 1,849 |
| 2000 | £57,500 | £112,844 | 1,529 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 1,569 |
| 1998 | £54,500 | £110,012 | 1,585 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 1,657 |
| 1996 | £51,500 | £108,611 | 1,346 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 1,320 |
In cash terms the typical PR2 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £194,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 78%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PR2 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.9%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £101,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, PR2
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 | £310,000 | 95 | 8,834 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 176 | 16,762 |
| Terraced | £142,000 | 114 | 12,248 |
| Flats | £101,000 | 30 | 3,699 |
What PR2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.5% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 922 PR2 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 1,821 sales a year before the financial crisis and 984 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.
What tenants pay around PR2
For renting purposes PR2 sits in Preston. The ONS average private rent there is £782 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £573 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,240, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Preston
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £194,000 median purchase price, a rent of £782 a month (£9,384 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
PR2 (Ashton On Ribble): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PR2 (Ashton On Ribble)?
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What happens to PR2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in PR2 today
Everything above is what homes in PR2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 137 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the PR2 median sold price.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every PR2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in PR: the cost
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PR2 ranks 8 of 11 in the PR 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.
PR area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PR2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PR2 1 | £183,000 | 77 |
| PR2 2 | £134,000 | 54 |
| PR2 3 | £200,000 | 84 |
| PR2 5 | £267,500 | 28 |
| PR2 6 | £167,800 | 49 |
| PR2 7 | £242,500 | 24 |
| PR2 8 | £252,500 | 32 |
| PR2 9 | £225,000 | 67 |
How PR2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PR26 | £285,500 | +24% |
| PR3 | £260,000 | -5% |
| PR4 | £251,000 | +9% |
| PR8 | £240,000 | +14% |
| PR6 | £231,200 | +22% |
| PR7 | £220,000 | +22% |
| PR25 | £205,000 | +13% |
| PR9 | £200,000 | +13% |
| PR2 (this report) | £194,000 | +13% |
| PR5 | £182,200 | +5% |
| PR1 | £170,500 | +22% |
Selling a home in PR2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PR2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PR2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PR2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.