Rectory Drive, Coventry house prices are built from 131 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,500. Across the 16 years from 2009 to 2025 the median moved +106.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.4%.
Median price paid
£136,500
Change in cash, 2009–2025
+106.5%
Change in real terms
+28.4%
HM Land Registry131 salesLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How Rectory Drive, Coventry prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rectory Drive, Coventry house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 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 | 1 | £89,225 | £198,122 |
| 2000s | 4 | £130,000 | £236,822 |
| 2010s | 2 | £176,750 | £249,218 |
| 2020s | 2 | £263,750 | £269,484 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rectory Drive, Coventry is £268,500 in 2025; the lowest is £89,225 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £89,225 to £268,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £181,802, so the real change over the whole record is +50.9% — about +1.60% 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: +106.5% in cash against +28.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 19 | 22 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £268,500 | £274,337 |
| 140 | 3 Dec 2025 | Detached | £295,500 | £301,924 |
| 11 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 36 | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 72 | 7 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £126,250 | £128,995 |
| 38 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 33 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 140 | 26 Feb 2024 | Detached | £276,000 | £290,418 |
| 43 | 5 May 2023 | Detached | £252,000 | £272,276 |
| 110 | 27 Jan 2023 | Detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 55 | 12 Aug 2022 | Detached | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 8 | 10 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £283,000 | £357,554 |
| 49 | 19 Nov 2021 | Detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 80 | 24 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £112,000 | £141,505 |
| 35 | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 114 | 8 Apr 2021 | Detached | £272,500 | £344,288 |
| 130 | 1 Mar 2021 | Detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 37 | 4 Dec 2020 | Detached | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 59 | 12 Mar 2020 | Detached | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 57 | 1 Oct 2019 | Detached | £239,950 | £313,849 |
| 41 | 25 Mar 2019 | Detached | £265,000 | £346,614 |
| 62 | 19 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £116,612 |
| 27 | 12 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £226,560 |
| 19 | 15 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £169,000 | £225,227 |
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 Rectory Drive, Coventry values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 Rectory Drive | £99,950 (1999) | £330,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 19 Rectory Drive | £169,000 (2018) | £268,500 (2025) | +6.8% | +2.9% |
| 140 Rectory Drive | £92,950 (2000) | £295,500 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 36 Rectory Drive | £64,500 (1996) | £400,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 72 Rectory Drive | £94,250 (2016) | £126,250 (2025) | +3.3% | -0.2% |
| 38 Rectory Drive | £118,000 (2013) | £275,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.2% |
| 33 Rectory Drive | £140,000 (2015) | £250,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +2.6% |
| 43 Rectory Drive | £81,500 (1999) | £252,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 110 Rectory Drive | £89,500 (1999) | £300,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 55 Rectory Drive | £88,950 (1999) | £270,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 8 Rectory Drive | £92,000 (2000) | £283,000 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 49 Rectory Drive | £82,500 (1999) | £255,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rectory Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 84 | 64.1% | £160,000 | £80,000 – £410,000 |
| Semi-detached | 33 | 25.2% | £140,000 | £44,000 – £400,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 13 | 9.9% | £75,500 | £30,000 – £126,250 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.8% | £220,000 | £220,000 – £220,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rectory Drive, Coventry
13 of the sales on record are leasehold and 118 freehold — 9.9% 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 £75,500 and the median freehold sale £147,500 — a gap of +95.4%. 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 | 13 | 9.9% | £75,500 |
| Freehold | 118 | 90.1% | £147,500 |
| New build | 35 | 26.7% | £92,950 |
| Existing home | 96 | 73.3% | £170,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.3%. 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 3 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 Rectory Drive, 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 £136,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.95% 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 Rectory Drive, 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 Rectory Drive, Coventry compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rectory Drive, Coventry sits below that national figure — -13.3%.
Within Coventry the street ranks 1406 of 3031 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £123,500 (+10.5%).
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 £30,000 to £410,000. 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.
Rectory Drive, 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
- Main Road£131,650 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
- Meeting House Lane£483,050 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 55 Rectory Drive5 sales
- 43 Rectory Drive4 sales
- 49 Rectory Drive4 sales
- 53 Rectory Drive4 sales
- 41 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 140 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 36 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 114 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 130 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 59 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 57 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 12 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 42 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 132 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 74 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 63 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 47 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 138 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 104 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 102 Rectory Drive3 sales
- 19 Rectory Drive2 sales
- 72 Rectory Drive2 sales
- 33 Rectory Drive2 sales
- 38 Rectory Drive2 sales
Back to Coventry house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rectory Drive, Coventry?
The median price paid in Rectory Drive, Coventry across every sale on the register is £136,500. 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 Rectory Drive, Coventry?
131 sales are on record for Rectory Drive, Coventry, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rectory Drive, Coventry house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +106.5% between 2009 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rectory Drive, Coventry house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £268,500, 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 Rectory Drive, Coventry?
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 May 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, “Rectory Drive, 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.