Middle Road, Lymington house prices are built from 206 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £305,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +53.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.0%.
Median price paid
£305,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+53.2%
Change in real terms
+11.0%
Median per m²
£2,436
HM Land Registry206 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Middle Road, Lymington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Middle Road, Lymington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £132,850 | £294,990 |
| 2000s | 8 | £248,725 | £453,104 |
| 2010s | 7 | £380,000 | £535,800 |
| 2020s | 5 | £590,000 | £602,826 |
The highest yearly median on record for Middle Road, Lymington is £700,000 in 2023; the lowest is £91,625 in 1998. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £135,000 to £590,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £299,764, so the real change over the whole record is +101.1% — about +2.36% 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: +53.2% in cash against +11.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 24 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £333,500 | £340,750 |
| 48 | 18 Jun 2025 | Detached | £685,000 | £699,891 |
| Burn Side | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £590,000 | £602,826 |
| 1 Laurel Bank | 24 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £536,413 |
| Dean House | 14 Feb 2025 | Detached | £1,210,000 | £1,236,304 |
| 4 | 28 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £366,000 | £373,957 |
| Taurus | 24 Jan 2025 | Detached | £880,000 | £899,130 |
| 16 | 3 Dec 2024 | Detached | £750,000 | £789,179 |
| 22 | 9 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £510,336 |
| 8 | 16 May 2024 | Terraced | £545,000 | £573,470 |
| Rowardennan | 14 May 2024 | Detached | £825,000 | £868,097 |
| 33 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 17 | 30 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £430,000 | £452,463 |
| 49 | 13 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £700,000 | £756,322 |
| 10 | 12 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £530,000 | £572,644 |
| 21 | 27 Jul 2023 | Detached | £900,000 | £972,414 |
| 53 | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £831,000 | £897,862 |
| 3a | 10 Mar 2023 | Detached | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 16 | 30 Jun 2022 | Detached | £720,000 | £834,182 |
| 21 | 28 Feb 2022 | Detached | £895,000 | £1,036,935 |
| Beaufort | 10 Feb 2022 | Detached | £566,500 | £656,339 |
| Flat 1 Avon Court | 27 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £402,000 | £507,903 |
| Brookside | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £590,000 | £745,430 |
| 2 | 17 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £409,000 | £516,747 |
| Hawthorn Cottage, 46 | 9 Sep 2021 | Detached | £800,000 | £1,010,753 |
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 Middle Road, Lymington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 Middle Road | £350,000 (2020) | £333,500 (2025) | -1.0% | -5.5% |
| 48 Middle Road | £379,950 (2011) | £685,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| BURN SIDE Middle Road | £125,000 (2000) | £590,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 1 LAUREL BANK Middle Road | £353,000 (2016) | £525,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +0.9% |
| DEAN HOUSE Middle Road | £415,000 (2001) | £1,210,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 4 Middle Road | £48,000 (1995) | £366,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| TAURUS Middle Road | £161,500 (1995) | £880,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 16 Middle Road | £86,500 (1996) | £750,000 (2024) | +8.0% | +5.3% |
| 8 Middle Road | £78,000 (1998) | £545,000 (2024) | +7.8% | +5.0% |
| 33 Middle Road | £272,000 (2019) | £475,000 (2024) | +11.8% | +7.0% |
| 49 Middle Road | £158,000 (1999) | £700,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 10 Middle Road | £135,250 (2001) | £530,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Middle Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 104 | 50.5% | £365,000 | £4,000 – £1,618,000 |
| Semi-detached | 59 | 28.6% | £244,950 | £49,000 – £725,000 |
| Terraced | 38 | 18.4% | £265,000 | £48,000 – £590,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 2.4% | £182,000 | £140,000 – £402,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Middle Road, Lymington
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 201 freehold — 2.4% 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 £182,000 and the median freehold sale £308,185 — a gap of +69.3%. 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 | 5 | 2.4% | £182,000 |
| Freehold | 201 | 97.6% | £308,185 |
| New build | 1 | 0.5% | £253,000 |
| Existing home | 205 | 99.5% | £305,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -17.0%. 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 7 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 Middle Road, 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 £305,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.87% 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 Middle Road, 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 Middle Road, Lymington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Middle Road, Lymington sits above that national figure — +93.7%.
Within Lymington the street ranks 304 of 581 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £265,000 (+15.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,436 per square metre, across 30 of the 206 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 £4,000 to £1,618,000. 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.
Middle Road, 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
- High Street£202,500 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
- 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
- 16 Middle Road6 sales
- BURN SIDE Middle Road5 sales
- 8 Middle Road5 sales
- 56 Middle Road4 sales
- 30 Middle Road4 sales
- 52 Middle Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, AVON COURT Middle Road4 sales
- 50 Middle Road4 sales
- 21 Middle Road3 sales
- 3A Middle Road3 sales
- 23 Middle Road3 sales
- 45 Middle Road3 sales
- MOORLANDS Middle Road3 sales
- 15 Middle Road3 sales
- 27 Middle Road3 sales
- 25 Middle Road3 sales
- 24 Middle Road3 sales
- CHERRY COTTAGE Middle Road3 sales
- 29 Middle Road3 sales
- 41 Middle Road3 sales
- MYRTLE COTTAGE Middle Road3 sales
- BRANLEY Middle Road3 sales
- 40 Middle Road3 sales
- 26 Middle Road3 sales
Back to Lymington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Middle Road, Lymington?
The median price paid in Middle Road, Lymington across every sale on the register is £305,000. 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 Middle Road, Lymington?
206 sales are on record for Middle Road, Lymington, the most recent completing on 24 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Middle Road, Lymington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Middle Road, Lymington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £700,000, 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 Middle Road, Lymington?
£2,436 per square metre, from the 30 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 24 Nov 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, “Middle Road, 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.