Main Road, Coventry house prices are built from 310 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 9 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £131,650. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved -10.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -34.0%.
Median price paid
£131,650
Change in cash, 2014–2024
-10.1%
Change in real terms
-34.0%
Median per m²
£2,167
HM Land Registry310 sales52 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Main Road, Coventry prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Road, Coventry house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £50,500 | £112,134 |
| 2000s | 10 | £110,000 | £200,388 |
| 2010s | 8 | £238,000 | £335,580 |
| 2020s | 4 | £366,000 | £373,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Road, Coventry is £450,000 in 2022; the lowest is £39,750 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £50,500 to £205,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £112,134, so the real change over the whole record is +92.4% — about +2.28% 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: -10.1% in cash against -34.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 | 9 Feb 2026 | Detached | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| 179 | 3 Feb 2026 | Detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 212 | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £470,000 | £470,000 |
| Fairlight | 27 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £279,995 | £279,995 |
| 171 | 5 Dec 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| Laundry Cottage | 21 Feb 2025 | Detached | £518,000 | £529,261 |
| Apartment 6 Kent House, 155 | 28 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| Apartment 2 Kent House, 155 | 15 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 105 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| Flat 39 Darlaston Court, 123 | 22 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £170,463 |
| Flat 20 Darlaston Court, 123 | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 77b | 31 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 57 | 31 Jul 2023 | Detached | £510,000 | £551,034 |
| The Garden House | 16 Dec 2022 | Detached | £558,000 | £646,491 |
| 77c | 10 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £223,000 | £258,365 |
| 19 | 7 Oct 2022 | Detached | £515,000 | £596,672 |
| 18 | 22 Sep 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 185 | 19 Aug 2022 | Detached | £392,000 | £454,166 |
| Flat 18 Darlaston Court, 123 | 4 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| Manor House | 1 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £480,000 | £556,122 |
| 196 | 10 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 188 | 21 Apr 2022 | Detached | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| Flat 38 Darlaston Court, 123 | 8 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £162,202 |
| Apartment 2 Kent House, 155 | 26 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £219,000 | £276,694 |
| 57 | 28 Sep 2021 | Detached | £357,000 | £451,048 |
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 Main Road, Coventry values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 Main Road | £212,000 (2009) | £520,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.4% |
| 179 Main Road | £190,000 (2001) | £400,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| APARTMENT 6 KENT HOUSE, 155 Main Road | £195,000 (2016) | £205,000 (2024) | +0.6% | -2.9% |
| APARTMENT 2 KENT HOUSE, 155 Main Road | £205,000 (2017) | £220,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -2.6% |
| 105 Main Road | £290,000 (2008) | £490,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 39 DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road | £47,500 (1998) | £162,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 20 DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road | £43,000 (1995) | £152,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 77B Main Road | £140,000 (2006) | £170,000 (2023) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 57 Main Road | £357,000 (2021) | £510,000 (2023) | +19.5% | +10.5% |
| 77C Main Road | £120,000 (2007) | £223,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 19 Main Road | £198,950 (2001) | £515,000 (2022) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 18 Main Road | £415,000 (2020) | £475,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Road, Coventry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 139 | 44.8% | £95,000 | £38,500 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 98 | 31.6% | £327,500 | £50,000 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 66 | 21.3% | £198,000 | £35,500 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 7 | 2.3% | £169,300 | £70,000 – £480,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Road, Coventry
142 of the sales on record are leasehold and 168 freehold — 45.8% 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 £96,000 and the median freehold sale £245,000 — a gap of +155.2%. 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 | 142 | 45.8% | £96,000 |
| Freehold | 168 | 54.2% | £245,000 |
| New build | 11 | 3.5% | £225,000 |
| Existing home | 299 | 96.5% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +80.0%. 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 15 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 07
Living in Main Road, Coventry
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Coventry, 42.8% of 184,230 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 722 | 0.4% |
| B | 16,600 | 9.0% |
| C | 61,487 | 33.4% |
| D | 74,270 | 40.3% |
| E | 24,978 | 13.6% |
| F | 4,905 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,268 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Coventry at £1,018 a month as of Jun 2026 — £758 for a one-bedroom home and £1,064 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £131,650 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.28% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CV7, 18 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 3 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 9.3 times quieter.
Against the 345,325 residents the 2021 census counted in Coventry, that is 0.05 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Main Road, Coventry
The 2021 census counted 345,325 residents in Coventry across 134,140 households. 58.1% of those households own their home and 41.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a CV7 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart of England School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,185 |
| Ash Green School | Secondary | Academy converter | 816 |
| Balsall Common Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 665 |
| Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 230 |
| Wheelwright Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 214 |
| Keresley Newland Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 206 |
| Arley Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 201 |
| Meriden Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 187 |
| Exhall Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 151 |
| Exhall Cedars Infant School | Primary | Community school | 123 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Coventry Arena Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Canley Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Tile Hill Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
| Coventry Rail Station | Rail | 6.3 km |
Section 09
How Main Road, Coventry compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Road, Coventry sits below that national figure — -16.4%.
Within Coventry the street ranks 1491 of 3031 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £123,500 (+6.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,167 per square metre, across 52 of the 310 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 £35,500 to £850,000. 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.
Main Road, Coventry sits in Coventry, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Coventry at 5.5 times median local earnings of £41,278 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Kenilworth Road£213,450 median
- Station Road£272,500 median
- George Street£78,500 median
- Tamworth Road£320,000 median
- Wheelwright Lane£120,000 median
- Grovefield Crescent£250,000 median
- Tresillian Road£88,250 median
- Coopers Meadow£175,000 median
- Ashley Way£149,000 median
- Strawberry Fields£148,975 median
- Woods Piece£147,950 median
- Gun Hill£97,000 median
- Fillongley Road£224,000 median
- Mercers Meadow£179,950 median
- Rectory Drive£136,500 median
- Meeting House Lane£483,050 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 8, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road8 sales
- FLAT 17, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road7 sales
- FLAT 20, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road6 sales
- FLAT 38, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road6 sales
- 135 Main Road5 sales
- FLAT 1, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road5 sales
- FLAT 14, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road5 sales
- FLAT 40, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road5 sales
- THE WHITE HOUSE Main Road5 sales
- FLAT 5, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road5 sales
- FLAT 36, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road5 sales
- 165 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 39, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 18, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- 196 Main Road4 sales
- 150 Main Road4 sales
- DUDLEY Main Road4 sales
- WALDOFF COTTAGE Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 21, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 28, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 27, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 31, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 35, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
- FLAT 33, DARLASTON COURT, 123 Main Road4 sales
Back to Coventry house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Road, Coventry?
The median price paid in Main Road, Coventry across every sale on the register is £131,650. 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 Main Road, Coventry?
310 sales are on record for Main Road, Coventry, the most recent completing on 9 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Road, Coventry house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -10.1% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -34.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Road, Coventry house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £450,000, set in 2022. 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 Main Road, Coventry?
£2,167 per square metre, from the 52 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 9 Feb 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, “Main Road, Coventry 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.