L38 3 house prices are built from 110 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £374,500. Across the 21 years from 2004 to 2025 the median moved +62.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.6%.
Median price paid
£374,500
Change in cash, 2004–2025
+62.3%
Change in real terms
-10.6%
HM Land Registry110 salesLatest sale 22 Aug 2025
Section 01
How L38 3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L38 3 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 2 | £150,000 | £333,071 |
| 2000s | 4 | £232,000 | £422,636 |
| 2010s | 1 | £463,750 | £653,888 |
| 2020s | 2 | £563,850 | £576,108 |
The highest yearly median on record for L38 3 is £608,500 in 2025; the lowest is £150,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £150,000 to £608,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £325,385, so the real change over the whole record is +91.1% — about +2.26% 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: +62.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE LODGE St Georges Road | 22 Aug 2025 | Detached | £675,000 | £689,674 |
| 2A Windermere Road | 22 Aug 2025 | Detached | £595,000 | £607,935 |
| GREY HOUSE Sandy Lane | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £530,000 | £541,522 |
| HOLMFIELD Sandy Lane | 26 Mar 2025 | Detached | £612,000 | £625,304 |
| GWYNFA Sandy Lane | 7 Feb 2025 | Detached | £608,500 | £621,728 |
| HAREFIELD, 5A Alt Road | 8 Mar 2024 | Detached | £740,000 | £778,657 |
| 20 Elmcroft Lane | 24 May 2023 | Detached | £630,000 | £680,690 |
| 4 Elmcroft Lane | 5 May 2023 | Detached | £785,000 | £848,161 |
| 2 Copper Beech View | 14 May 2021 | Detached | £520,000 | £656,989 |
| THE COTTAGE St Georges Road | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £755,000 | £953,898 |
| 3 Copper Beech View | 5 Feb 2021 | Detached | £492,000 | £621,613 |
| 7 Elmcroft Lane | 29 Jan 2021 | Detached | £675,000 | £852,823 |
| 1 Copper Beech View | 28 Jan 2021 | Detached | £520,000 | £656,989 |
| 4 Copper Beech View | 14 Jan 2021 | Detached | £625,000 | £789,651 |
| 10 Elmcroft Lane | 8 Jan 2021 | Detached | £563,850 | £712,391 |
| 3 Windermere Road | 16 Dec 2020 | Detached | £810,000 | £1,048,760 |
| GLENBURN St Georges Road | 28 Jan 2020 | Detached | £650,000 | £841,598 |
| 9A Elmcroft Lane | 12 Jul 2019 | Detached | £550,000 | £719,388 |
| 16 Elmcroft Lane | 4 Apr 2019 | Detached | £370,000 | £483,952 |
| INGLEBOROUGH St Georges Road | 8 Mar 2019 | Detached | £513,000 | £670,993 |
| 2 Elmcroft Lane | 2 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £573,062 |
| 11 Windermere Road | 1 Mar 2018 | Detached | £456,000 | £607,713 |
| GRANGE Sandy Lane | 11 Dec 2017 | Detached | £467,500 | £636,269 |
| BROOMY BANK Alt Road | 1 Dec 2017 | Detached | £385,000 | £523,986 |
| SANDFIELD St Georges Road | 30 Nov 2017 | Detached | £565,000 | £768,967 |
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 L38 3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE LODGE St Georges Road | £325,000 (2004) | £675,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 20 Elmcroft Lane | £240,000 (2001) | £630,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 4 Elmcroft Lane | £315,000 (2003) | £785,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
| THE COTTAGE St Georges Road | £470,000 (2015) | £755,000 (2021) | +8.2% | +6.3% |
| 6 Sandy Lane | £41,950 (2001) | £400,000 (2018) | +14.2% | +11.6% |
| GRANGE Sandy Lane | £170,000 (1996) | £467,500 (2017) | +4.9% | +2.6% |
| BROOMY BANK Alt Road | £135,000 (1996) | £385,000 (2017) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 6 Windermere Road | £171,500 (1997) | £592,500 (2017) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| ANCHORAGE Alt Road | £360,000 (2007) | £460,000 (2017) | +2.5% | +0.0% |
| 5 Emerson Close | £305,000 (2005) | £374,000 (2017) | +1.7% | -0.7% |
| THE HOMESTEAD St Georges Road | £235,000 (1999) | £523,400 (2017) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 14 Elmcroft Lane | £160,500 (1996) | £555,000 (2016) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L38 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 96 | 87.3% | £390,000 | £113,000 – £820,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 10.9% | £210,000 | £75,000 – £430,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.8% | £65,000 | £65,000 – £80,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L38 3
68 of the sales on record are leasehold and 42 freehold — 61.8% 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 £367,500 and the median freehold sale £434,500 — a gap of +18.2%. 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 | 68 | 61.8% | £367,500 |
| Freehold | 42 | 38.2% | £434,500 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £330,000 |
| Existing home | 109 | 99.1% | £375,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -12.0%. 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 1 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 L38 3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L38 3 sits above that national figure — +137.8%.
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £65,000 to £820,000. 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
Other sectors in L38
The wider district is L38.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L38 3?
The median price paid in L38 3 across every sale on the register is £374,500. 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 L38 3?
110 sales are on record for L38 3, the most recent completing on 22 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L38 3 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +62.3% between 2004 and 2025. 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 L38 3 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £608,500, set in 2025. 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 L38 3?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Aug 2025. 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, “L38 3 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.