Gate Lane, Freshwater house prices are built from 79 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 14 years from 2005 to 2019 the median moved +104.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +46.9%.
Median price paid
£155,000
Change in cash, 2005–2019
+104.5%
Change in real terms
+46.9%
Median per m²
£2,753
HM Land Registry79 sales20 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Gate Lane, Freshwater prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gate Lane, Freshwater house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £59,500 | £132,118 |
| 2000s | 2 | £62,750 | £114,312 |
| 2010s | 1 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gate Lane, Freshwater is £225,000 in 2019; the lowest is £59,500 in 1996. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £59,500 to £225,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £129,069, so the real change over the whole record is +128.0% — about +3.65% 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: +104.5% in cash against +46.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat Lucerne | 29 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £257,500 | £263,098 |
| Flat 5 Hazelhurst | 9 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £185,957 |
| Flat 8 Hazelhurst | 15 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| Bay Sound | 5 Aug 2022 | Detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| Flat 1 Hazelhurst | 23 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| Flat 1 Hazelhurst | 28 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| Flat 8 Hazelhurst | 23 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| Blenheim House | 31 Mar 2021 | Detached | £625,000 | £789,651 |
| Gate Cottage | 26 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £287,500 | £363,239 |
| Flat 6 Starks House | 18 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £96,000 | £124,298 |
| Flat 5 Hazelhurst | 29 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £206,660 |
| Flat 3 Hazelhurst | 30 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £262,500 | £343,344 |
| Cambridge Lodge | 29 May 2019 | Detached | £685,000 | £895,965 |
| Flat 2 Hazelhurst | 16 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £206,660 |
| Longs Croft | 22 Feb 2019 | Detached | £225,000 | £294,295 |
| Flat 9 Hazelhurst | 16 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £339,839 |
| Flat 4 Hazelhurst | 14 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| Beech Tree | 30 Jun 2017 | Detached | £273,000 | £371,554 |
| Flat 1 Ardfern | 31 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| Moonbeam House | 27 Jan 2017 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £626,062 |
| Sherwood Cottage | 26 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £310,619 |
| Ground Floor Flat Lucerne | 11 Aug 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £146,584 |
| Flat 8 Hazelhurst | 24 Jun 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £216,386 |
| Flat 7 Hazelhurst | 29 Mar 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £272,228 |
| Flat 5 Hazelhurst | 8 Sep 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £211,500 |
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 Gate Lane, Freshwater values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT LUCERNE Gate Lane | £105,000 (2016) | £257,500 (2025) | +10.5% | +6.7% |
| FLAT 5 HAZELHURST Gate Lane | £125,000 (2012) | £182,000 (2025) | +2.9% | 0.0% |
| FLAT 8 HAZELHURST Gate Lane | £155,000 (2016) | £200,000 (2023) | +3.7% | 0.0% |
| FLAT 1 HAZELHURST Gate Lane | £220,000 (2014) | £260,000 (2022) | +2.1% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 6 STARKS HOUSE Gate Lane | £60,000 (2004) | £96,000 (2020) | +3.0% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 3 HAZELHURST Gate Lane | £220,000 (2014) | £262,500 (2019) | +3.6% | +1.7% |
| CAMBRIDGE LODGE Gate Lane | £130,000 (1996) | £685,000 (2019) | +7.5% | +5.2% |
| LONGS CROFT Gate Lane | £89,950 (1999) | £225,000 (2019) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 9 HAZELHURST Gate Lane | £215,000 (2014) | £255,000 (2018) | +4.4% | +2.5% |
| FLAT 1 ARDFERN Gate Lane | £117,000 (2014) | £180,000 (2017) | +15.4% | +13.4% |
| SHERWOOD COTTAGE Gate Lane | £38,000 (1995) | £222,500 (2016) | +8.8% | +6.4% |
| EGERTON Gate Lane | £200,000 (2009) | £440,000 (2010) | +120.0% | +113.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gate Lane, Freshwater 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 | 43 | 54.4% | £130,000 | £20,750 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 18 | 22.8% | £225,000 | £83,000 – £685,000 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 20.3% | £121,500 | £38,000 – £460,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 2.5% | £175,000 | £175,000 – £287,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gate Lane, Freshwater
41 of the sales on record are leasehold and 38 freehold — 51.9% 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 £150,000 and the median freehold sale £172,500 — a gap of +15.0%. 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 | 41 | 51.9% | £150,000 |
| Freehold | 38 | 48.1% | £172,500 |
| New build | 9 | 11.4% | £195,000 |
| Existing home | 70 | 88.6% | £150,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +30.0%. 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 5 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 Gate Lane, Freshwater compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gate Lane, Freshwater sits below that national figure — -1.6%.
Within Freshwater the street ranks 80 of 113 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,000 (-8.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,753 per square metre, across 20 of the 79 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 £20,750 to £685,000. 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
- Victoria Road£200,000 median
- School Green Road£145,000 median
- Queens Road£140,000 median
- Brambles Chine£60,000 median
- Golden Ridge£195,000 median
- Colwell Road£210,068 median
- Parkway£173,552 median
- Camp Road£170,000 median
- Copse Lane£184,000 median
- High Street£164,000 median
- Hooke Hill£115,000 median
- Tennyson Road£89,500 median
- Afton Road£280,000 median
- Dall Square£175,000 median
- Colwell Chine Road£105,000 median
- Avenue Road£112,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 5, HAZELHURST Gate Lane4 sales
- FLAT 6, STARKS HOUSE Gate Lane4 sales
- LONGS CROFT Gate Lane4 sales
- FLAT 8, HAZELHURST Gate Lane3 sales
- FLAT 1, HAZELHURST Gate Lane3 sales
- SHERWOOD COTTAGE Gate Lane3 sales
- FLAT 2, STARKS HOUSE Gate Lane3 sales
- 1, LUCERNE Gate Lane3 sales
- HAVELOCK HOUSE Gate Lane3 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, LUCERNE Gate Lane2 sales
- FLAT 3, HAZELHURST Gate Lane2 sales
- CAMBRIDGE LODGE Gate Lane2 sales
- FLAT 9, HAZELHURST Gate Lane2 sales
- FLAT 1, ARDFERN Gate Lane2 sales
- EGERTON Gate Lane2 sales
- FLAT 1, STARKS HOUSE Gate Lane2 sales
- GREEN GABLES Gate Lane2 sales
- FLEUR Gate Lane2 sales
- 1, GATE HOUSE Gate Lane2 sales
- FLAT 8, STARKS HOUSE Gate Lane2 sales
- MILTON LODGE Gate Lane2 sales
- SHERWOOD Gate Lane2 sales
- ARDFERN Gate Lane2 sales
Back to Freshwater house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gate Lane, Freshwater?
The median price paid in Gate Lane, Freshwater across every sale on the register is £155,000. 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 Gate Lane, Freshwater?
79 sales are on record for Gate Lane, Freshwater, the most recent completing on 29 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gate Lane, Freshwater house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +104.5% between 2005 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +46.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gate Lane, Freshwater house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, set in 2019. 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 Gate Lane, Freshwater?
£2,753 per square metre, from the 20 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 29 Oct 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, “Gate Lane, Freshwater 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.