Cliff Road, Cowes house prices are built from 93 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 27 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £180,000. Across the 11 years from 2008 to 2019 the median moved -35.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -49.8%.
Median price paid
£180,000
Change in cash, 2008–2019
-35.6%
Change in real terms
-49.8%
Median per m²
£2,557
HM Land Registry93 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Cliff Road, Cowes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cliff Road, Cowes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2019. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £109,500 | £199,477 |
| 2010s | 1 | £309,200 | £435,972 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cliff Road, Cowes is £480,000 in 2008; the lowest is £79,950 in 2002. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £109,500 to £309,200.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £214,736, so the real change over the whole record is +88.3% — about +3.58% 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: -35.6% in cash against -49.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 27 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 5 | 18 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| Flat 11 Thorness House, 6 | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 2a | 27 Jun 2023 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,404,598 |
| 19 | 8 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £765,000 | £886,319 |
| Flat 3 Thorness House, 6 | 20 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 31 | 31 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| Flat 4a Thorness House, 6 | 17 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £183,199 |
| Flat 4 Forest View, 14 | 17 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £550,275 |
| Flat 2 Thorness House, 6 | 30 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £222,500 | £288,085 |
| 25 | 25 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £650,000 | £841,598 |
| Flat 3 Thorness House, 6 | 29 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £124,258 |
| Flat 2 Thorness House, 6 | 21 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 25 | 26 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £450,000 | £588,590 |
| Flat 3 Forest View, 14 | 5 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| Flat 1 Forest View, 14 | 25 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £309,200 | £404,427 |
| Flat 7 Thorness House, 6 | 24 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 5 | 20 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £262,500 | £349,835 |
| Flat 4 Forest View, 14 | 20 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £442,326 |
| Flat 1 Thorness House, 6 | 17 Mar 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £227,288 |
| 2a | 20 Jan 2017 | Detached | £466,900 | £635,453 |
| 10 | 2 Sep 2016 | Detached | £748,000 | £1,044,238 |
| Flat 7 Thorness House, 6 | 13 Nov 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| Flat 5 Thorness House, 6 | 16 Sep 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 48 | 28 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £234,000 | £329,940 |
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 Cliff Road, Cowes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 Cliff Road | £140,000 (2004) | £400,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 5 Cliff Road | £262,500 (2018) | £485,000 (2023) | +13.1% | +8.4% |
| FLAT 11 THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road | £50,000 (2002) | £180,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.4% |
| 2A Cliff Road | £466,900 (2017) | £1,300,000 (2023) | +18.6% | +14.1% |
| 19 Cliff Road | £625,000 (2008) | £765,000 (2022) | +1.5% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 3 THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road | £32,000 (2000) | £150,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
| FLAT 4 FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road | £235,000 (2003) | £425,000 (2020) | +3.5% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 2 THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road | £173,000 (2006) | £222,500 (2020) | +1.8% | -0.5% |
| 25 Cliff Road | £475,000 (2008) | £650,000 (2020) | +2.6% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 3 FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road | £210,500 (2001) | £355,000 (2019) | +2.9% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 1 FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road | £145,000 (2001) | £309,200 (2019) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| FLAT 7 THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road | £90,000 (2000) | £300,000 (2018) | +6.9% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cliff Road, Cowes 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 | 51 | 54.8% | £139,950 | £14,000 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 27 | 29.0% | £234,000 | £67,000 – £650,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 8.6% | £460,000 | £50,000 – £1,300,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 7.5% | £575,000 | £115,000 – £765,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cliff Road, Cowes
53 of the sales on record are leasehold and 40 freehold — 57.0% 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 £139,950 and the median freehold sale £273,750 — a gap of +95.6%. 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 | 53 | 57.0% | £139,950 |
| Freehold | 40 | 43.0% | £273,750 |
| New build | 5 | 5.4% | £185,000 |
| Existing home | 88 | 94.6% | £176,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.8%. 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 2 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 Cliff Road, Cowes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cliff Road, Cowes sits above that national figure — +14.3%.
Within Cowes the street ranks 97 of 198 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £160,000 (+12.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,557 per square metre, across 19 of the 93 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 £14,000 to £1,300,000. 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
Streets nearby
- Newport Road£150,000 median
- Mill Hill Road£154,000 median
- Park Road£162,500 median
- Arctic Road£127,000 median
- Pelham Road£126,975 median
- Bellevue Road£145,500 median
- The Parade£148,475 median
- Fellows Road£130,000 median
- Baring Road£340,000 median
- Victoria Road£149,500 median
- Seaview Road£165,950 median
- Queens Road£195,000 median
- Egypt Esplanade£140,000 median
- St Marys Road£135,000 median
- York Street£145,000 median
- Nelson Drive£140,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 5, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road5 sales
- 52 Cliff Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road3 sales
- 25 Cliff Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road3 sales
- PENTHOUSE FLAT, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road3 sales
- 8 Cliff Road3 sales
- FLAT 8, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road3 sales
- 42 Cliff Road3 sales
- 3 Cliff Road3 sales
- 38B Cliff Road3 sales
- 5 Cliff Road2 sales
- FLAT 11, THORNESS HOUSE, 6 Cliff Road2 sales
- 2A Cliff Road2 sales
- 19 Cliff Road2 sales
- FLAT 3, FOREST VIEW, 14 Cliff Road2 sales
- 29 Cliff Road2 sales
- 40 Cliff Road2 sales
Back to Cowes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cliff Road, Cowes?
The median price paid in Cliff Road, Cowes across every sale on the register is £180,000. 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 Cliff Road, Cowes?
93 sales are on record for Cliff Road, Cowes, the most recent completing on 27 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cliff Road, Cowes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -35.6% between 2008 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -49.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cliff Road, Cowes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £480,000, set in 2008. 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 Cliff Road, Cowes?
£2,557 per square metre, from the 19 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 27 Nov 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, “Cliff Road, Cowes 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.