Heron Drive, Gainsborough house prices are built from 76 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 12 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £141,250. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +18.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.0%.
Median price paid
£141,250
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+18.4%
Change in real terms
-14.0%
Median per m²
£1,213
HM Land Registry76 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Heron Drive, Gainsborough prices moved
The chart tracks the median Heron Drive, Gainsborough house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2005 to 2021. 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 | 3 | £146,151 | £266,244 |
| 2020s | 1 | £190,000 | £194,130 |
The highest yearly median on record for Heron Drive, Gainsborough is £190,000 in 2021; the lowest is £132,950 in 2005. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £132,950 to £190,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £242,196, so the real change over the whole record is -0.9% — about -0.06% 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: +18.4% in cash against -14.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 12 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £227,337 |
| 10 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £172,000 | £175,739 |
| 12 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 16 | 20 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 23 | 11 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £134,000 | £144,782 |
| 20 | 29 Jun 2023 | Detached | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 35 | 26 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £152,500 | £176,684 |
| 14 | 5 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 20 | 10 Dec 2021 | Detached | £246,000 | £310,806 |
| 4 | 27 Sep 2021 | Detached | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 34 | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £248,000 | £313,333 |
| 32 | 26 May 2021 | Detached | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 10 | 26 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 33 | 2 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 9 | 5 Jun 2020 | Detached | £182,000 | £235,647 |
| 18 | 3 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £124,250 | £160,875 |
| 8 | 5 Oct 2018 | Detached | £178,000 | £237,221 |
| 21 | 29 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £119,000 | £158,592 |
| 33 | 21 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £204,151 |
| 16 | 21 Aug 2017 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £170,125 |
| 4 | 8 Dec 2016 | Detached | £130,000 | £181,485 |
| 31 | 2 Dec 2016 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £195,446 |
| 6 | 15 May 2015 | Semi-detached | £119,000 | £167,790 |
| 24 | 1 Apr 2015 | Detached | £154,000 | £217,140 |
| 37 | 23 May 2014 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £157,782 |
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 Heron Drive, Gainsborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Heron Drive | £133,950 (2005) | £222,500 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 10 Heron Drive | £124,950 (2005) | £172,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 12 Heron Drive | £108,855 (2005) | £150,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 16 Heron Drive | £123,750 (2005) | £170,000 (2023) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 23 Heron Drive | £133,950 (2005) | £134,000 (2023) | +0.0% | -2.9% |
| 20 Heron Drive | £184,950 (2006) | £235,000 (2023) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 35 Heron Drive | £128,950 (2006) | £152,500 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.6% |
| 14 Heron Drive | £124,950 (2005) | £150,000 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.6% |
| 4 Heron Drive | £132,950 (2005) | £140,000 (2021) | +0.3% | -1.9% |
| 34 Heron Drive | £199,950 (2006) | £248,000 (2021) | +1.4% | -0.8% |
| 32 Heron Drive | £144,352 (2006) | £190,000 (2021) | +1.8% | -0.5% |
| 33 Heron Drive | £133,950 (2006) | £155,000 (2020) | +1.0% | -1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Heron Drive, Gainsborough 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 | 38 | 50.0% | £154,000 | £125,757 – £248,000 |
| Semi-detached | 25 | 32.9% | £128,950 | £110,000 – £222,500 |
| Terraced | 13 | 17.1% | £129,950 | £102,000 – £172,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Heron Drive, Gainsborough
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 76 | 100.0% | £141,250 |
| New build | 28 | 36.8% | £142,100 |
| Existing home | 48 | 63.2% | £141,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +0.6%. 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 07
Living in Heron Drive, Gainsborough
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bassetlaw, 42.0% of 64,248 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 246 | 0.4% |
| B | 8,267 | 12.9% |
| C | 18,501 | 28.8% |
| D | 23,722 | 36.9% |
| E | 9,589 | 14.9% |
| F | 3,075 | 4.8% |
| G | 848 | 1.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bassetlaw at £720 a month as of Jun 2026 — £498 for a one-bedroom home and £792 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £141,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.12% 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 DN21, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.
Against the 117,804 residents the 2021 census counted in Bassetlaw, that is 0.01 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 Heron Drive, Gainsborough
The 2021 census counted 117,804 residents in Bassetlaw across 51,458 households. 68.7% of those households own their home and 31.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a DN21 postcode: 18 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough | Secondary | Community school | 1,139 |
| The Gainsborough Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 767 |
| Kirton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 406 |
| Castle Wood Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 272 |
| The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 255 |
| Scotter Primary School | Primary | Community school | 247 |
| Benjamin Adlard Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 234 |
| The Gainsborough Hillcrest Early Years Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 231 |
| White's Wood Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 195 |
| Kirton Lindsey Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 192 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Gainsborough Central Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Gainsborough Lea Road Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| Kirton Lindsey Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Saxilby Rail Station | Rail | 17.1 km |
Section 09
How Heron Drive, Gainsborough compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Heron Drive, Gainsborough sits below that national figure — -10.3%.
Within Gainsborough the street ranks 206 of 588 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £99,950 (+41.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,213 per square metre, across 27 of the 76 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 £102,000 to £248,000. 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.
Heron Drive, Gainsborough sits in Bassetlaw, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bassetlaw at 6.2 times median local earnings of £32,485 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
- High Street£125,000 median
- Ropery Road£65,000 median
- Lea Road£65,000 median
- Sunningdale Way£148,000 median
- Gainsborough Road£157,500 median
- Sandsfield Lane£61,500 median
- Stanley Street£39,950 median
- Bob Rainsforth Way£149,995 median
- Willingham Road£134,500 median
- Church Street£120,000 median
- Tower Street£44,000 median
- Birchwood View£119,950 median
- Juniper Way£118,998 median
- Waterworks Street£30,000 median
- Gordon Street£37,350 median
- The Pines£88,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 10 Heron Drive5 sales
- 4 Heron Drive5 sales
- 33 Heron Drive5 sales
- 6 Heron Drive5 sales
- 31 Heron Drive4 sales
- 16 Heron Drive3 sales
- 20 Heron Drive3 sales
- 35 Heron Drive3 sales
- 32 Heron Drive3 sales
- 12 Heron Drive2 sales
- 23 Heron Drive2 sales
- 14 Heron Drive2 sales
- 34 Heron Drive2 sales
- 9 Heron Drive2 sales
- 18 Heron Drive2 sales
- 8 Heron Drive2 sales
- 21 Heron Drive2 sales
- 24 Heron Drive2 sales
- 37 Heron Drive2 sales
- 3 Heron Drive2 sales
- 27 Heron Drive2 sales
- 5 Heron Drive2 sales
Back to Gainsborough house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Heron Drive, Gainsborough?
The median price paid in Heron Drive, Gainsborough across every sale on the register is £141,250. 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 Heron Drive, Gainsborough?
76 sales are on record for Heron Drive, Gainsborough, the most recent completing on 12 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Heron Drive, Gainsborough house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +18.4% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Heron Drive, Gainsborough house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, set in 2021. 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 Heron Drive, Gainsborough?
£1,213 per square metre, from the 27 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 12 Dec 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, “Heron Drive, Gainsborough 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.