Dorley Dale, Lowestoft house prices are built from 186 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 6 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £149,995. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +106.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +49.8%.
Median price paid
£149,995
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+106.5%
Change in real terms
+49.8%
HM Land Registry186 salesLatest sale 6 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Dorley Dale, Lowestoft prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dorley Dale, Lowestoft house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2022. 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 | £64,950 | £144,220 |
| 2000s | 7 | £139,950 | £254,948 |
| 2010s | 3 | £205,000 | £289,050 |
| 2020s | 1 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dorley Dale, Lowestoft is £320,000 in 2022; the lowest is £64,950 in 1999. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £64,950 to £320,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £132,340, so the real change over the whole record is +180.1% — about +4.58% 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: +106.5% in cash against +49.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 6 Aug 2025 | Detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 27 | 9 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 20 | 25 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 68 | 22 Nov 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 42 | 29 Jan 2024 | Detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 55 | 13 Oct 2023 | Detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 29 | 9 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 50 | 5 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 43 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 57 | 31 Oct 2022 | Detached | £405,000 | £469,228 |
| 6 | 28 Oct 2022 | Detached | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| 32 | 7 Sep 2022 | Detached | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 18 | 22 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 38 | 23 Feb 2022 | Detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 27 | 26 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 63 | 17 Sep 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 72 | 11 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £261,532 |
| 59 | 4 Jan 2021 | Detached | £322,500 | £407,460 |
| 5 | 26 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 18 | 19 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £182,000 | £235,647 |
| 82 | 4 Jun 2020 | Detached | £289,500 | £374,835 |
| 70 | 21 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £262,837 |
| 49 | 11 Oct 2019 | Detached | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 29 | 14 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 4 | 7 Dec 2018 | Detached | £270,000 | £359,830 |
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 Dorley Dale, Lowestoft values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Dorley Dale | £137,500 (2002) | £340,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 27 Dorley Dale | £93,950 (2002) | £205,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 20 Dorley Dale | £109,950 (2002) | £190,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| 68 Dorley Dale | £115,950 (2003) | £290,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 42 Dorley Dale | £139,950 (2003) | £280,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 55 Dorley Dale | £174,950 (2003) | £340,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 29 Dorley Dale | £91,950 (2002) | £220,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 43 Dorley Dale | £124,950 (2002) | £295,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| 57 Dorley Dale | £184,950 (2003) | £405,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.6% |
| 6 Dorley Dale | £99,950 (1999) | £345,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| 32 Dorley Dale | £169,000 (2002) | £400,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| 18 Dorley Dale | £92,500 (2002) | £230,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dorley Dale, Lowestoft 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 79 | 42.5% | £124,950 | £34,500 – £295,000 |
| Detached | 78 | 41.9% | £200,000 | £87,950 – £415,000 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 15.6% | £129,950 | £60,000 – £230,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dorley Dale, Lowestoft
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 185 freehold — 0.5% 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 £34,500 and the median freehold sale £149,995 — a gap of +334.8%. 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 | 1 | 0.5% | £34,500 |
| Freehold | 185 | 99.5% | £149,995 |
| New build | 68 | 36.6% | £111,450 |
| Existing home | 118 | 63.4% | £173,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -35.8%. 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 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 07
Living in Dorley Dale, Lowestoft
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 630 | 0.5% |
| B | 12,701 | 9.8% |
| C | 40,380 | 31.0% |
| D | 47,955 | 36.8% |
| E | 20,236 | 15.5% |
| F | 6,405 | 4.9% |
| G | 1,907 | 1.5% |
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 £149,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.68% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Dorley Dale, Lowestoft
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Point Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 846 |
| Pakefield High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 679 |
| Red Oak Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 420 |
| Carlton Colville Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 366 |
| Grove Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 304 |
| Dell Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 290 |
| Pakefield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 274 |
| Elm Tree Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 266 |
| Kessingland Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 198 |
| Westwood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 184 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Oulton Broad North Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Lowestoft Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Somerleyton Rail Station | Rail | 7.6 km |
| Beccles Rail Station | Rail | 10.0 km |
Section 09
How Dorley Dale, Lowestoft compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dorley Dale, Lowestoft sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Within Lowestoft the street ranks 358 of 1004 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £120,000 (+25.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £34,500 to £415,000. 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.
Dorley Dale, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- London Road South£118,000 median
- Church Road£130,000 median
- Lloyds Avenue£112,000 median
- Long Road£118,500 median
- Stradbroke Road£114,500 median
- Victoria Road£112,995 median
- Beccles Road£128,000 median
- Kimberley Road£103,000 median
- Carlton Road£103,000 median
- London Road£111,000 median
- Dell Road£117,500 median
- Kirkley Run£92,873 median
- Beaconsfield Road£85,000 median
- Colville Road£137,748 median
- Rushton Drive£185,950 median
- The Avenue£134,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 68 Dorley Dale7 sales
- 29 Dorley Dale6 sales
- 44 Dorley Dale6 sales
- 27 Dorley Dale5 sales
- 12 Dorley Dale5 sales
- 57 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 18 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 59 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 5 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 24 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 76 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 34 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 10 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 3 Dorley Dale4 sales
- 36 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 55 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 6 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 38 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 63 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 72 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 49 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 74 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 80 Dorley Dale3 sales
- 1 Dorley Dale3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dorley Dale, Lowestoft?
The median price paid in Dorley Dale, Lowestoft across every sale on the register is £149,995. 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 Dorley Dale, Lowestoft?
186 sales are on record for Dorley Dale, Lowestoft, the most recent completing on 6 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dorley Dale, Lowestoft house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +106.5% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +49.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dorley Dale, Lowestoft house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £320,000, 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 Dorley Dale, Lowestoft?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 6 Aug 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, “Dorley Dale, 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.