Fir Lane, Lowestoft house prices are built from 132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £87,600. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +15.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.4%.
Median price paid
£87,600
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+15.0%
Change in real terms
-16.4%
Median per m²
£1,154
HM Land Registry132 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Fir Lane, Lowestoft prices moved
The chart tracks the median Fir Lane, 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 | £34,995 | £77,705 |
| 2000s | 7 | £73,000 | £132,984 |
| 2010s | 3 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 1 | £130,000 | £132,826 |
The highest yearly median on record for Fir Lane, Lowestoft is £130,000 in 2021; the lowest is £33,000 in 1998. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £34,995 to £130,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £75,912, so the real change over the whole record is +116.4% — 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: +15.0% in cash against -16.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 8 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £156,000 | £159,391 |
| 29 | 13 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 43 | 15 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 22 | 7 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 89 | 29 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 45 | 13 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £193,500 | £209,069 |
| 53 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 35 | 26 May 2022 | Terraced | £152,500 | £176,684 |
| 65 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 113 | 22 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 12 | 20 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 53 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £123,000 | £155,403 |
| 35 | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £143,000 | £180,672 |
| 14 | 11 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 103 | 4 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £132,500 | £171,556 |
| 29 | 2 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £130,000 | £168,320 |
| 73 | 27 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 22 | 1 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £125,000 | £163,497 |
| 25 | 20 May 2019 | Terraced | £113,000 | £147,801 |
| 45 | 18 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £143,500 | £187,695 |
| 151 | 22 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £107,908 |
| 103 | 22 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| 45 | 16 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £90,000 | £119,943 |
| 8 | 3 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £105,000 | £139,934 |
| 27 | 18 May 2018 | Terraced | £134,950 | £179,848 |
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 Fir Lane, Lowestoft values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Fir Lane | £35,000 (1998) | £156,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 29 Fir Lane | £36,000 (1999) | £170,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 43 Fir Lane | £55,995 (2002) | £170,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.3% |
| 22 Fir Lane | £31,000 (2000) | £160,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 45 Fir Lane | £90,000 (2018) | £193,500 (2023) | +16.5% | +11.8% |
| 53 Fir Lane | £123,000 (2021) | £160,000 (2022) | +30.1% | +19.3% |
| 35 Fir Lane | £32,950 (1996) | £152,500 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.5% |
| 65 Fir Lane | £87,200 (2009) | £170,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 113 Fir Lane | £69,000 (2006) | £260,000 (2021) | +9.2% | +6.8% |
| 14 Fir Lane | £88,500 (2005) | £130,000 (2021) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| 103 Fir Lane | £125,000 (2018) | £132,500 (2020) | +3.0% | +1.5% |
| 151 Fir Lane | £62,000 (2006) | £82,500 (2019) | +2.2% | -0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Fir Lane, 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 | 106 | 80.3% | £89,995 | £8,375 – £260,000 |
| Semi-detached | 18 | 13.6% | £57,000 | £17,000 – £139,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 3.8% | £140,000 | £64,000 – £150,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 2.3% | £65,000 | £62,000 – £82,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Fir Lane, Lowestoft
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 128 freehold — 3.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £63,500 and the median freehold sale £88,250 — a gap of +39.0%. 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 | 4 | 3.0% | £63,500 |
| Freehold | 128 | 97.0% | £88,250 |
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 Fir Lane, 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 £87,600 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.44% 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 NR32, 195 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 90 violent, 7 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 26 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 246,058 residents the 2021 census counted in East Suffolk, that is 0.79 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 Fir Lane, 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.
14 state and independent schools have a NR32 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,263 |
| Ormiston Denes Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 711 |
| Woods Loke Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 483 |
| Oulton Broad Primary School | Primary | Community school | 378 |
| Roman Hill Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 375 |
| St Margaret's Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 364 |
| The Limes Primary Academy | Primary | Free schools | 354 |
| Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 311 |
| Gunton Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 306 |
| Poplars Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 260 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Oulton Broad North Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Lowestoft Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Somerleyton Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
| Haddiscoe Rail Station | Rail | 8.5 km |
Section 09
How Fir Lane, Lowestoft compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Fir Lane, Lowestoft sits below that national figure — -44.4%.
Within Lowestoft the street ranks 837 of 1004 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,000 (-27.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,154 per square metre, across 11 of the 132 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 £8,375 to £260,000. 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.
Fir Lane, 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
- The Street£137,000 median
- Raglan Street£68,000 median
- St Peters Street£79,200 median
- Gorleston Road£146,500 median
- High Street£86,000 median
- Hall Road£130,000 median
- Yarmouth Road£229,998 median
- St Margarets Road£93,500 median
- Higher Drive£144,000 median
- Queens Road£79,400 median
- Oulton Road£140,000 median
- Sussex Road£97,500 median
- Bevan Street West£62,500 median
- Cambridge Road£81,950 median
- Corton Road£245,000 median
- Somerton Avenue£95,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 27 Fir Lane6 sales
- 41 Fir Lane6 sales
- 29 Fir Lane5 sales
- 22 Fir Lane5 sales
- 32 Fir Lane5 sales
- 49 Fir Lane5 sales
- 12 Fir Lane4 sales
- 35 Fir Lane4 sales
- 8 Fir Lane4 sales
- 91 Fir Lane4 sales
- 121 Fir Lane4 sales
- 43 Fir Lane3 sales
- 45 Fir Lane3 sales
- 65 Fir Lane3 sales
- 14 Fir Lane3 sales
- 151 Fir Lane3 sales
- 16 Fir Lane3 sales
- 21 Fir Lane3 sales
- 75 Fir Lane3 sales
- 30 Fir Lane3 sales
- 10 Fir Lane3 sales
- 33 Fir Lane3 sales
- 53 Fir Lane2 sales
- 113 Fir Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Fir Lane, Lowestoft?
The median price paid in Fir Lane, Lowestoft across every sale on the register is £87,600. 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 Fir Lane, Lowestoft?
132 sales are on record for Fir Lane, Lowestoft, the most recent completing on 8 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Fir Lane, Lowestoft house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +15.0% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Fir Lane, Lowestoft house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £130,000, 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 Fir Lane, Lowestoft?
£1,154 per square metre, from the 11 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 8 Oct 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, “Fir Lane, 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.