High Street, Lymington house prices are built from 304 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £202,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +30.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.5%.
Median price paid
£202,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+30.2%
Change in real terms
-4.5%
Median per m²
£3,014
HM Land Registry304 sales39 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Lymington prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Lymington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | 5 | £68,750 | £152,657 |
| 2000s | 9 | £204,000 | £371,628 |
| 2010s | 8 | £240,950 | £339,740 |
| 2020s | 5 | £355,000 | £362,717 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Lymington is £532,500 in 2023; the lowest is £58,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £75,000 to £358,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,535, so the real change over the whole record is +126.2% — about +2.85% 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: +30.2% in cash against -4.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 | 20 Mar 2026 | Detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| Top Flat 73 | 30 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £422,000 | £431,174 |
| Flat 2 73 | 10 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| Flat 2 Solent Mews | 29 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 125a | 31 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £427,500 | £436,793 |
| 114a | 10 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 5 Telford Place, 75 | 21 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £238,000 | £250,433 |
| Fern Cottage 6 Telford Place, 75 | 21 Oct 2024 | Detached | £520,000 | £547,164 |
| 110b | 1 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £336,000 | £353,552 |
| Flat 3 54b | 9 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 2 Madeira Mews, 25 | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £605,000 | £636,604 |
| 8a | 18 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 40 | 26 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 56 | 22 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| Belmont, 114 | 28 Jul 2023 | Detached | £965,000 | £1,042,644 |
| 20 Angel Courtyard | 13 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| The Courtyard House, 59 | 5 May 2023 | Terraced | £1,300,000 | £1,404,598 |
| Flat 2 79 | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 44a | 15 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £615,000 | £712,531 |
| River Cottage, 2a | 3 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £585,000 | £677,773 |
| 34 | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £388,000 | £449,532 |
| Flat 2 77 | 31 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £233,000 | £269,951 |
| 3 Telford Place, 75 | 6 May 2022 | Terraced | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 126b | 17 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 73a | 23 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £328,495 |
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 High Street, Lymington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 High Street | £315,000 (2008) | £410,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 125A High Street | £52,750 (1996) | £427,500 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 110B High Street | £217,500 (2010) | £336,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 3 54B High Street | £220,000 (2021) | £225,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -5.2% |
| 2 MADEIRA MEWS, 25 High Street | £295,000 (2003) | £605,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 8A High Street | £148,750 (2002) | £650,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.4% |
| 40 High Street | £64,000 (1996) | £360,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| BELMONT, 114 High Street | £153,210 (2000) | £965,000 (2023) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| 20 ANGEL COURTYARD High Street | £295,000 (2007) | £400,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -1.1% |
| THE COURTYARD HOUSE, 59 High Street | £700,000 (2005) | £1,300,000 (2023) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 2 79 High Street | £181,500 (2004) | £220,000 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.5% |
| RIVER COTTAGE, 2A High Street | £312,500 (2011) | £585,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Lymington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 165 | 54.3% | £175,000 | £20,000 – £615,000 |
| Terraced | 78 | 25.7% | £230,000 | £7,500 – £1,300,000 |
| Detached | 31 | 10.2% | £410,000 | £21,500 – £1,100,000 |
| Semi-detached | 30 | 9.9% | £248,000 | £41,500 – £1,100,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Lymington
165 of the sales on record are leasehold and 139 freehold — 54.3% 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 £174,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +43.7%. 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 | 165 | 54.3% | £174,000 |
| Freehold | 139 | 45.7% | £250,000 |
| New build | 28 | 9.2% | £222,500 |
| Existing home | 276 | 90.8% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.3%. 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 80 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 High Street, Lymington
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across New Forest, 41.4% of 81,792 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 319 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,972 | 7.3% |
| C | 27,549 | 33.7% |
| D | 32,422 | 39.6% |
| E | 11,558 | 14.1% |
| F | 3,080 | 3.8% |
| G | 892 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in New Forest at £1,238 a month as of Jun 2026 — £860 for a one-bedroom home and £1,384 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £202,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.34% 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 SO41, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 22 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.
Against the 175,785 residents the 2021 census counted in New Forest, that is 0.30 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 High Street, Lymington
The 2021 census counted 175,785 residents in New Forest across 77,567 households. 74.8% of those households own their home and 25.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a SO41 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priestlands School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,205 |
| Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 382 |
| Milford-on-Sea Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 313 |
| Lymington Junior School | Primary | Community school | 250 |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 191 |
| Lymington Church of England Infant School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 180 |
| Pennington Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 170 |
| South Baddesley Church of England Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 131 |
| Tiptoe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 123 |
| Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School – the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 104 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lymington Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Lymington Pier Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Lymington Pier Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 2.7 km |
| Sway Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Lymington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Lymington sits above that national figure — +28.6%.
Within Lymington the street ranks 480 of 581 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £265,000 (-23.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,014 per square metre, across 39 of the 304 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 £7,500 to £1,300,000. 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.
High Street, Lymington sits in New Forest, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in New Forest at 10.3 times median local earnings of £36,792 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
- Everton Road£250,000 median
- Southampton Road£257,000 median
- Sea Road£190,000 median
- Keyhaven Road£210,000 median
- Milford Road£117,500 median
- Church Lane£300,000 median
- Samber Close£193,000 median
- Wainsford Road£274,500 median
- Middle Road£305,000 median
- Belmore Lane£250,000 median
- Camden Hurst£237,000 median
- New Street£142,500 median
- Gosport Street£177,750 median
- Spartina Drive£111,500 median
- Victoria Road£250,000 median
- Vitre Gardens£229,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 58A High Street7 sales
- FLAT 6, 76 High Street7 sales
- 11A High Street6 sales
- FLAT 2, LEEWARD HOUSE, 42 High Street5 sales
- 127A High Street5 sales
- 133 High Street5 sales
- FLAT 3, LEEWARD HOUSE, 42 High Street5 sales
- 125A High Street4 sales
- THE COURTYARD HOUSE, 59 High Street4 sales
- 126B High Street4 sales
- FLAT 1, 79 High Street4 sales
- 110 High Street4 sales
- 16 High Street4 sales
- FLAT 3, 77 High Street4 sales
- 1, TELFORD PLACE, 75 High Street4 sales
- FLAT 1, 77 High Street4 sales
- FLAT 2, 76 High Street4 sales
- 8 High Street4 sales
- 51 High Street4 sales
- FLAT 1, 76 High Street4 sales
- 8A High Street3 sales
- 40 High Street3 sales
- FLAT 2, 77 High Street3 sales
- FLAT 5, 76 High Street3 sales
Back to Lymington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Lymington?
The median price paid in High Street, Lymington across every sale on the register is £202,500. 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 High Street, Lymington?
304 sales are on record for High Street, Lymington, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Lymington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Lymington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £532,500, 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 High Street, Lymington?
£3,014 per square metre, from the 39 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 20 Mar 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, “High Street, Lymington 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.