Leiston house prices are built from 3,995 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £150,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +54.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.6%.
Median price paid
£150,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+54.4%
Change in real terms
+10.6%
Median per m²
£1,804
HM Land Registry3,995 sales849 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Leiston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Leiston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £44,750 | £99,366 |
| 2000s | 10 | £126,500 | £230,446 |
| 2010s | 10 | £168,725 | £237,902 |
| 2020s | 7 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for Leiston is £269,000 in 2021; the lowest is £35,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,875 to £269,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £90,762, so the real change over the whole record is +196.4% — about +3.57% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +54.4% in cash against +10.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Lime Tree Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £222,500 |
| 113 Carr Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 55 Eastward Ho | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 1 Holly Tree Close | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 1 Kitchener Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 25 Carr Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 8 Upton Place | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 5 Foxglove End | 13 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 25 Waterloo Avenue | 1 Apr 2026 | Detached | £535,000 | £535,000 |
| Bluebell Cottage | 1 Apr 2026 | Detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 19 the Gables | 30 Mar 2026 | Detached | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 4 Roberts Road | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| SEVENBROOMES Mill Hill | 20 Mar 2026 | Detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 9 Coxwells Square | 12 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 3 Meadow Rise | 10 Mar 2026 | Detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 11 COLONIAL COURT Station Road | 4 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £147,000 |
| 4 Minden Drive | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 123 High Street | 23 Feb 2026 | Detached | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 122 High Street | 23 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 10 Andrew Close | 16 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 2 MEADOWSIDE Aldeburgh Road | 6 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 17 Garrett Crescent | 6 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £257,000 | £257,000 |
| 10 Cornflower Close | 6 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 9 Oak Drive | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 5 Pilgrims Way | 22 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £269,000 | £269,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Leiston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Lime Tree Avenue | £215,000 (2024) | £222,500 (2026) | +1.7% | -0.8% |
| 55 Eastward Ho | £126,000 (2025) | £170,000 (2026) | +34.9% | +32.0% |
| 113 Carr Avenue | £100,000 (2017) | £185,000 (2026) | +7.1% | +3.5% |
| 1 Kitchener Road | £170,000 (2016) | £225,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.5% |
| 1 Holly Tree Close | £225,000 (2005) | £370,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 25 Carr Avenue | £65,000 (2001) | £220,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 8 Upton Place | £39,000 (1998) | £215,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 5 Foxglove End | £239,995 (2016) | £325,000 (2026) | +3.1% | -0.3% |
| 25 Waterloo Avenue | £235,425 (2016) | £535,000 (2026) | +8.6% | +5.0% |
| 19 the Gables | £240,000 (2005) | £350,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 4 Roberts Road | £30,500 (1996) | £185,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| SEVENBROOMES Mill Hill | £140,000 (2001) | £475,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leiston is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 1,299 | 32.5% | £120,000 | £11,000 – £1,152,000 |
| Detached | 1,186 | 29.7% | £266,000 | £18,000 – £2,247,500 |
| Semi-detached | 1,177 | 29.5% | £146,000 | £11,500 – £757,883 |
| Flat or maisonette | 333 | 8.3% | £106,000 | £12,000 – £725,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Leiston
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,204 certificates cover Leiston, and their median floor area is 79 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 79 m² | about 850 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 96 m² | about 1,033 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 21.5% | 259 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 7.0% | 84 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Leiston
352 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3,643 freehold — 8.8% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £105,500 and the median freehold sale £157,000 — a gap of +48.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 352 | 8.8% | £105,500 |
| Freehold | 3,643 | 91.2% | £157,000 |
| New build | 503 | 12.6% | £228,000 |
| Existing home | 3,492 | 87.4% | £139,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +63.4%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 297 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 09
How Leiston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leiston sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,804 per square metre, across 849 of the 3,995 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £11,000 to £2,247,500. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Leiston
- Carr Avenue243 sales
- Aldeburgh Road175 sales
- Haylings Road168 sales
- King Georges Avenue121 sales
- Valley Road104 sales
- Central Road102 sales
- Waterloo Avenue100 sales
- Station Road95 sales
- High Street87 sales
- Old Foundry Place84 sales
- Westward Ho84 sales
- Prospect Place75 sales
- Garrett Crescent67 sales
- Grimsey Road64 sales
- Crown Street59 sales
- Eastward Ho59 sales
- Kings Road59 sales
- The Gables53 sales
- Abbey Road52 sales
- Roberts Road52 sales
- Dinsdale Road51 sales
- Hodgson Avenue50 sales
- Paradise Place47 sales
- Long Row46 sales
- Sylvester Road44 sales
- St Margarets Crescent43 sales
- Southfield Drive41 sales
- Cross Street39 sales
- Foxglove End39 sales
- Red House Lane39 sales
- Church Road38 sales
- Seaward Avenue37 sales
- Valley Terrace37 sales
- Kitchener Road36 sales
- Park Hill35 sales
- Poppy Way35 sales
- Buller Road33 sales
- Mill Hill33 sales
- Valley Gardens33 sales
- Chandlers Way32 sales
- Heath View32 sales
- Andrew Close31 sales
- Daisy Drive29 sales
- Benthills27 sales
- Lime Tree Avenue26 sales
- Lakeside Avenue24 sales
- Leiston Road24 sales
- Haylings Grove23 sales
- Sizewell Road23 sales
- The Sanctuary23 sales
- Upton Place22 sales
- Platers Walk21 sales
- Cornflower Close20 sales
- Howard Drive20 sales
- King Edward Road20 sales
- Huntingfield Road19 sales
- Mafeking Place19 sales
- The Headlands19 sales
- Urban Road19 sales
- Church View18 sales
Postcode districts covering Leiston
- IP16£150,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Leiston?
The median price paid in Leiston across every sale on the register is £150,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Leiston?
3,995 sales are on record for Leiston, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Leiston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Leiston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £269,000, set in 2021. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Leiston?
£1,804 per square metre, from the 849 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 5 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Leiston house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.