Riverside Drive, Lincoln house prices

Riverside Drive, Lincoln house prices are built from 216 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 2 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 14 years from 2009 to 2023 the median moved +21.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.3%.

HM Land Registry216 sales58 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median Riverside Drive, Lincoln house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Riverside Drive, Lincoln is £157,500 in 2023; the lowest is £117,373 in 2008. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £124,701 to £157,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £222,006, so the real change over the whole record is -23.3% — about -1.55% 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: +21.2% in cash against -20.3% 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.

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.

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 Riverside Drive, Lincoln values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Riverside Drive, Lincoln is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

181 of the sales on record are leasehold and 35 freehold — 83.8% 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 £121,039 and the median freehold sale £150,353 — a gap of +24.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.7%. 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 28 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lincoln, 44.8% of 51,712 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lincoln at £948 a month as of Jun 2026 — £664 for a one-bedroom home and £996 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.10% 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 LN5, 29 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 17 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.8 times quieter.

Against the 103,813 residents the 2021 census counted in Lincoln, that is 0.28 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.

The 2021 census counted 103,813 residents in Lincoln across 42,506 households. 51.4% of those households own their home and 48.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a LN5 postcode: 12 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Riverside Drive, Lincoln sits below that national figure — -20.6%.

Within Lincoln the street ranks 1626 of 2762 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £130,000 (-3.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,993 per square metre, across 58 of the 216 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 £25,875 to £190,000. 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.

Riverside Drive, Lincoln sits in Lincoln, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lincoln at 5.2 times median local earnings of £35,509 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.

Streets nearby

• Sleaford Road£136,000 median
• Brant Road£150,000 median
• Main Road£128,450 median
• Scorer Street£83,000 median
• Calder Road£115,000 median
• Cross Street£75,000 median
• St Catherines Grove£110,000 median
• Larne Road£88,642 median
• Vernon Street£97,000 median
• Ripon Street£70,000 median
• St Andrews Street£66,000 median
• Kirkby Street£75,000 median
• School Lane£189,950 median
• Broughton Gardens£118,000 median
• Thesiger Street£69,000 median
• Dixon Street£73,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 213 Riverside Drive4 sales
• 1 Riverside Drive4 sales
• 59 Riverside Drive4 sales
• 107 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 9 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 7 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 29 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 6 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 227 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 18 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 137 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 127 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 141 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 19 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 36 Riverside Drive3 sales
• 181 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 159 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 11 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 32 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 175 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 149 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 14 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 25 Riverside Drive2 sales
• 101 Riverside Drive2 sales

Back to Lincoln house prices.

What is the average house price in Riverside Drive, Lincoln?

The median price paid in Riverside Drive, Lincoln across every sale on the register is £125,000. 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 Riverside Drive, Lincoln?

216 sales are on record for Riverside Drive, Lincoln, the most recent completing on 2 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Riverside Drive, Lincoln house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +21.2% between 2009 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Riverside Drive, Lincoln house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £157,500, set in 2023. 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 Riverside Drive, Lincoln?

£1,993 per square metre, from the 58 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 2 Apr 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, “Riverside Drive, 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.