Lowestoft house prices

Lowestoft house prices are built from 46,238 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +46.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.9%.

HM Land Registry46,238 sales8,231 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Lowestoft house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 Lowestoft is £229,500 in 2022; the lowest is £41,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £41,000 to £227,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £91,039, so the real change over the whole record is +149.3% — about +2.99% 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: +46.5% in cash against +4.9% 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.

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 Lowestoft values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 11,447 certificates cover Lowestoft, and their median floor area is 73 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

1,723 of the sales on record are leasehold and 44,515 freehold — 3.7% 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 £74,000 and the median freehold sale £123,000 — a gap of +66.2%. 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 — +18.8%. 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 2,269 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 East Suffolk, 41.2% of 130,214 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.4% 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 East Suffolk at £835 a month as of Jun 2026 — £598 for a one-bedroom home and £933 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £120,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.35% 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 NR33, 110 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 45 violent, 4 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.

Against the 246,058 residents the 2021 census counted in East Suffolk, that is 0.45 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 246,058 residents in East Suffolk across 110,749 households. 69.3% of those households own their home and 30.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

12 state and independent schools have a NR33 postcode: 10 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. Lowestoft sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,386 per square metre, across 8,231 of the 46,238 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 £450 to £17,750,000. 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.

Lowestoft sits in East Suffolk, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Suffolk at 7.8 times median local earnings of £37,025 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 in Lowestoft

• London Road South643 sales
• The Street414 sales
• Church Road403 sales
• Lloyds Avenue389 sales
• Raglan Street375 sales
• Long Road334 sales
• Stradbroke Road300 sales
• Victoria Road299 sales
• St Peters Street293 sales
• Gorleston Road290 sales
• Beccles Road286 sales
• Kimberley Road271 sales
• High Street265 sales
• Carlton Road254 sales
• London Road243 sales
• Dell Road235 sales
• Hall Road235 sales
• Kirkley Run232 sales
• Yarmouth Road220 sales
• St Margarets Road210 sales
• Beaconsfield Road208 sales
• Colville Road208 sales
• Higher Drive199 sales
• Queens Road199 sales
• Oulton Road196 sales
• Rushton Drive193 sales
• Sussex Road193 sales
• Bevan Street West187 sales
• Cambridge Road187 sales
• Dorley Dale186 sales
• Corton Road185 sales
• The Avenue184 sales
• Cowslip Crescent182 sales
• Somerton Avenue178 sales
• Waveney Crescent178 sales
• Worthing Road165 sales
• Bridge Road164 sales
• Normanston Drive163 sales
• Beresford Road161 sales
• Oxford Road159 sales
• Harebell Way158 sales
• Stanford Street158 sales
• Kirkley Cliff Road156 sales
• Walmer Road153 sales
• Elmdale Drive152 sales
• Monarch Way151 sales
• Station Road145 sales
• Blackheath Road144 sales
• Westwood Avenue144 sales
• Morton Road138 sales
• Tonning Street138 sales
• Denmark Road134 sales
• Keel Close134 sales
• Norwich Road134 sales
• Fir Lane132 sales
• Seago Street132 sales
• Park Road131 sales
• Royal Avenue131 sales
• Sycamore Avenue131 sales
• Wollaston Road131 sales

Postcode districts covering Lowestoft

• NR33£124,000 median
• NR32£115,000 median

What is the average house price in Lowestoft?

The median price paid in Lowestoft across every sale on the register is £120,000. 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 Lowestoft?

46,238 sales are on record for Lowestoft, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lowestoft house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +46.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lowestoft house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £229,500, set in 2022. 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 Lowestoft?

£1,386 per square metre, from the 8,231 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 Jun 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, “Lowestoft 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.