Main Street, Lincoln house prices are built from 741 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £190,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +24.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.8%.
Median price paid
£190,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+24.4%
Change in real terms
-9.8%
Median per m²
£1,942
HM Land Registry741 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Lincoln prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, Lincoln house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £65,950 | £146,440 |
| 2000s | 10 | £168,000 | £306,047 |
| 2010s | 10 | £232,500 | £327,825 |
| 2020s | 6 | £315,000 | £321,848 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Lincoln is £390,000 in 2021; the lowest is £60,000 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £63,750 to £350,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £141,555, so the real change over the whole record is +152.6% — about +3.14% 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: +24.4% in cash against -9.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 30 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| Embsay Holt | 15 Jan 2026 | Detached | £610,000 | £610,000 |
| 50 | 27 Nov 2025 | Detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 77 | 26 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £251,500 | £256,967 |
| Field View Halls Yard | 14 Nov 2025 | Detached | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 82 | 27 Oct 2025 | Detached | £266,000 | £271,783 |
| 43 | 18 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £118,900 | £121,485 |
| 56 | 8 Aug 2025 | Detached | £515,000 | £526,196 |
| Middle Cottage | 8 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 20 Old Four Row | 5 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £287,000 | £293,239 |
| 78 | 30 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £267,696 |
| 88 | 30 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| Hillside Cottage | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 24 | 18 Jul 2025 | Detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| Vine Tree Stables | 10 Jul 2025 | Detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| Owls Hoot | 4 Jul 2025 | Detached | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 65a | 2 Jul 2025 | Detached | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| 11 | 27 Jun 2025 | Detached | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| Embsay House | 20 Jun 2025 | Detached | £1,090,000 | £1,113,696 |
| Pedders Way | 20 Jun 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| The Spinney | 23 May 2025 | Detached | £445,000 | £454,674 |
| 9 | 23 May 2025 | Detached | £322,000 | £329,000 |
| 49 | 30 Apr 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 45 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| 26 | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
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 Street, Lincoln values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Main Street | £88,000 (2003) | £228,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| EMBSAY HOLT Main Street | £155,000 (1999) | £610,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 50 Main Street | £60,000 (1995) | £375,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 77 Main Street | £217,500 (2021) | £251,500 (2025) | +3.7% | -1.7% |
| FIELD VIEW HALLS YARD Main Street | £307,500 (2019) | £440,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +1.9% |
| 82 Main Street | £146,000 (2003) | £266,000 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 43 Main Street | £404,400 (2014) | £118,900 (2025) | -10.5% | -13.2% |
| MIDDLE COTTAGE Main Street | £68,950 (2000) | £225,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 56 Main Street | £345,000 (2013) | £515,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 20 OLD FOUR ROW Main Street | £259,950 (2022) | £287,000 (2025) | +3.4% | -0.9% |
| 88 Main Street | £25,000 (1995) | £145,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 78 Main Street | £194,000 (2023) | £262,000 (2025) | +16.2% | +13.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Lincoln 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 | 540 | 72.9% | £235,000 | £15,000 – £1,500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 147 | 19.8% | £123,000 | £15,000 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 52 | 7.0% | £153,000 | £32,000 – £287,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.3% | £55,000 | £55,000 – £115,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Lincoln
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 741 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 | 741 | 100.0% | £190,000 |
| New build | 33 | 4.5% | £110,240 |
| Existing home | 708 | 95.5% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -44.9%. 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 54 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 Street, Lincoln
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Boston, 42.3% of 38,000 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 291 | 0.8% |
| B | 4,905 | 12.9% |
| C | 10,859 | 28.6% |
| D | 12,955 | 34.1% |
| E | 6,217 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,120 | 5.6% |
| G | 653 | 1.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Boston at £800 a month as of Jun 2026 — £600 for a one-bedroom home and £916 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £190,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.05% 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.
No street-level crime was published for LN4 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Main Street, Lincoln
The 2021 census counted 70,502 residents in Boston across 29,404 households. 60.1% of those households own their home and 39.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a LN4 postcode: 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branston Community Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,132 |
| The Barnes Wallis Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 483 |
| Bracebridge Heath St John's Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 358 |
| Washingborough Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 268 |
| The Metheringham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 260 |
| Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 249 |
| Heighington Millfield Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 209 |
| Branston Junior Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 174 |
| The Billinghay Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 143 |
| Tattershall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 137 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Metheringham Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Ruskington Rail Station | Rail | 11.9 km |
| Lincoln Central Rail Station | Rail | 13.6 km |
| Hykeham Rail Station | Rail | 15.5 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Lincoln compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Lincoln sits above that national figure — +20.6%.
Within Lincoln the street ranks 634 of 2762 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £130,000 (+46.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,942 per square metre, across 6 of the 741 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 £15,000 to £1,500,000. 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 Street, Lincoln sits in Boston, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Boston at 6.8 times median local earnings of £30,129 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
- Station Road£130,000 median
- Clinton Park£68,950 median
- Grantham Road£144,975 median
- Curtis Drive£129,975 median
- Fen Road£165,000 median
- Heath Road£160,000 median
- Sycamore Grove£115,000 median
- Shiregate£117,500 median
- Victoria Street£91,750 median
- Paddock Lane£85,000 median
- Bath Road£142,950 median
- Heathfield Avenue£114,250 median
- Norwich Drive£106,975 median
- Minster Court£128,500 median
- Castle View£89,225 median
- Meadow Way£99,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 3 Main Street19 sales
- 7 Main Street15 sales
- 15 Main Street13 sales
- 9 Main Street11 sales
- 26 Main Street10 sales
- 21 Main Street10 sales
- 16 Main Street10 sales
- 88 Main Street9 sales
- 33 Main Street9 sales
- 89 Main Street9 sales
- 27 Main Street9 sales
- 24 Main Street8 sales
- 23 Main Street8 sales
- 19 Main Street8 sales
- 39 Main Street8 sales
- 45 Main Street7 sales
- 14 Main Street7 sales
- 32 Main Street7 sales
- 17 Main Street7 sales
- 101 Main Street6 sales
- 100 Main Street6 sales
- 1 Main Street6 sales
- 2 Main Street6 sales
- 41 Main Street6 sales
Back to Lincoln house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Lincoln?
The median price paid in Main Street, Lincoln across every sale on the register is £190,000. 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 Main Street, Lincoln?
741 sales are on record for Main Street, Lincoln, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Street, Lincoln house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +24.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Lincoln house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £390,000, 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 Main Street, Lincoln?
£1,942 per square metre, from the 6 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 30 Jan 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 Street, Lincoln 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.