Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes house prices

Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes house prices are built from 214 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 28 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,475. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +42.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.3%.

HM Land Registry214 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes is £335,000 in 2025; the lowest is £78,500 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £78,500 to £335,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,444, so the real change over the whole record is +105.6% — about +2.61% 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: +42.6% in cash against +3.3% 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.

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.

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 Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

171 of the sales on record are leasehold and 43 freehold — 79.9% 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 £195,000 and the median freehold sale £217,000 — a gap of +11.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +74.5%. 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Fylde, 38.6% of 46,027 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Fylde at £864 a month as of Jun 2026 — £606 for a one-bedroom home and £938 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £195,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.30% 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 FY8, 108 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 2 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 16 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 81,374 residents the 2021 census counted in Fylde, that is 1.33 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.

The 2021 census counted 81,374 residents in Fylde across 37,606 households. 72.4% of those households own their home and 27.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a FY8 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes sits above that national figure — +24.1%.

Within Lytham St Annes the street ranks 230 of 618 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £152,000 (+28.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,456 per square metre, across 46 of the 214 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 £14,000 to £455,000. 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.

Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes sits in Fylde, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Fylde at 5.4 times median local earnings of £45,127 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.

Streets nearby

• Clifton Drive North£128,000 median
• Clifton Drive South£145,000 median
• South Promenade£204,975 median
• Church Road£144,000 median
• St Annes Road East£121,500 median
• Clifton Drive£249,500 median
• St Andrews Road North£100,000 median
• North Promenade£190,000 median
• Oxford Road£90,000 median
• Heyhouses Lane£114,500 median
• Kings Road£102,250 median
• St Andrews Road South£93,000 median
• St Davids Road North£91,750 median
• Victoria Street£125,000 median
• Victory Boulevard£400,000 median
• Curzon Road£119,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 81 Forest Drive6 sales
• 156 Forest Drive4 sales
• 137 Forest Drive4 sales
• 179 Forest Drive4 sales
• 132 Forest Drive4 sales
• 186 Forest Drive4 sales
• 140 Forest Drive4 sales
• 153 Forest Drive3 sales
• 202 Forest Drive3 sales
• 127 Forest Drive3 sales
• 106 Forest Drive3 sales
• FLAT 3, HALL PARK CENTRE Forest Drive3 sales
• 126 Forest Drive3 sales
• 44 Forest Drive3 sales
• 181 Forest Drive3 sales
• 141 Forest Drive3 sales
• 36 Forest Drive3 sales
• 19 Forest Drive3 sales
• 105 Forest Drive2 sales
• 169 Forest Drive2 sales
• 163 Forest Drive2 sales
• 130 Forest Drive2 sales
• 177 Forest Drive2 sales
• 5 Forest Drive2 sales

Back to Lytham St Annes house prices.

What is the average house price in Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes?

The median price paid in Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes across every sale on the register is £195,475. 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 Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes?

214 sales are on record for Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes, the most recent completing on 28 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £335,000, set in 2025. 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 Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes?

£2,456 per square metre, from the 46 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 28 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, “Forest Drive, Lytham St Annes 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.