Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft house prices are built from 152 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £129,973. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +64.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.6%.
Median price paid
£129,973
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+64.6%
Change in real terms
+19.6%
HM Land Registry152 salesLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft prices moved
The chart tracks the median Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £54,500 | £121,016 |
| 2000s | 7 | £125,495 | £228,615 |
| 2010s | 4 | £165,000 | £232,650 |
| 2020s | 1 | £260,000 | £265,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft is £260,000 in 2021; the lowest is £52,500 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £52,500 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,885, so the real change over the whole record is +188.4% — about +4.33% 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: +64.6% in cash against +19.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 42 | 25 Sep 2025 | Detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 57 | 5 Sep 2025 | Detached | £237,500 | £242,663 |
| 45 | 7 Oct 2024 | Detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 10 | 9 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £210,395 |
| 17 | 15 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £187,299 |
| 42 | 21 Mar 2024 | Detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 44 | 2 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 31 | 24 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 62 | 3 Mar 2023 | Detached | £321,500 | £347,368 |
| 35 | 14 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 69 | 25 Jul 2022 | Detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 14 | 1 Nov 2021 | Detached | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 81 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 91 | 30 Mar 2021 | Detached | £335,000 | £423,253 |
| 32 | 12 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £133,000 | £168,038 |
| 88 | 1 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 75 | 30 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £127,000 | £164,435 |
| 27 | 26 Aug 2020 | Detached | £185,000 | £239,532 |
| 77 | 28 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £252,479 |
| 44 | 16 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £326,994 |
| 22 | 1 Aug 2019 | Detached | £210,000 | £274,675 |
| 63 | 24 May 2019 | Detached | £229,000 | £299,527 |
| 56 | 12 Apr 2019 | Detached | £267,500 | £349,884 |
| 67 | 31 Jan 2019 | Detached | £285,000 | £372,774 |
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 Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Elmdale Drive | £199,950 (2024) | £200,000 (2026) | +0.0% | -2.5% |
| 42 Elmdale Drive | £93,000 (2001) | £290,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 57 Elmdale Drive | £63,000 (1999) | £237,500 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 45 Elmdale Drive | £56,500 (1999) | £345,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 44 Elmdale Drive | £142,000 (2005) | £325,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 31 Elmdale Drive | £46,500 (1996) | £225,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 62 Elmdale Drive | £134,995 (2002) | £321,500 (2023) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 35 Elmdale Drive | £129,950 (2013) | £220,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 69 Elmdale Drive | £53,000 (1996) | £275,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 14 Elmdale Drive | £58,000 (1999) | £265,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 81 Elmdale Drive | £60,000 (1997) | £260,000 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 88 Elmdale Drive | £58,000 (2000) | £185,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Elmdale Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 98 | 64.5% | £134,995 | £47,500 – £345,000 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 28.3% | £129,950 | £43,250 – £325,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 7.2% | £108,995 | £37,500 – £133,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 152 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 | 152 | 100.0% | £129,973 |
A further 3 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 Elmdale Drive, 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 £129,973 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.71% 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 Elmdale Drive, 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 Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Lowestoft the street ranks 527 of 1004 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £120,000 (+8.3%).
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 £37,500 to £345,000. 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.
Elmdale Drive, 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
- Dorley Dale£149,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 81 Elmdale Drive5 sales
- 75 Elmdale Drive5 sales
- 77 Elmdale Drive5 sales
- 67 Elmdale Drive5 sales
- 12 Elmdale Drive5 sales
- 88 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 63 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 36 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 70 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 73 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 82 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 55 Elmdale Drive4 sales
- 42 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 45 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 44 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 62 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 69 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 24 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 90 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 64 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 21 Elmdale Drive3 sales
- 10 Elmdale Drive2 sales
- 57 Elmdale Drive2 sales
- 31 Elmdale Drive2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft?
The median price paid in Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft across every sale on the register is £129,973. 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 Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft?
152 sales are on record for Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +64.6% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Elmdale Drive, Lowestoft house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, 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 Elmdale Drive, 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 22 May 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, “Elmdale Drive, 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.