March house prices

March house prices are built from 19,794 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.6%.

HM Land Registry19,794 sales3,548 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median March house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 March is £242,500 in 2025; the lowest is £39,995 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,500 to £235,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,370, so the real change over the whole record is +149.5% — about +2.99% 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: +40.4% in cash against +0.6% 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.

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 March values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,509 certificates cover March, and their median floor area is 80 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

909 of the sales on record are leasehold and 18,885 freehold — 4.6% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £135,000 — a gap of +92.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.6%. 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 850 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 Fenland, 45.1% of 52,695 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.9% 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 Fenland at £838 a month as of Jun 2026 — £624 for a one-bedroom home and £974 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £130,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.74% 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 PE15, 79 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 30 violent, 2 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 18 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times quieter.

Against the 102,462 residents the 2021 census counted in Fenland, that is 0.77 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 102,462 residents in Fenland across 44,083 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

9 state and independent schools have a PE15 postcode: 8 primary, 1 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. March sits below that national figure — -17.5%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,554 per square metre, across 3,548 of the 19,794 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 £1,000 to £850,000. 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.

March sits in Fenland, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Fenland at 7.4 times median local earnings of £31,401 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 in March

• Station Road504 sales
• Wisbech Road443 sales
• Creek Road431 sales
• Norwood Road422 sales
• High Street299 sales
• Dagless Way286 sales
• Doddington Road271 sales
• West End254 sales
• Fleetwood Close238 sales
• Robingoodfellows Lane236 sales
• Badgeney Road231 sales
• Deerfield Road203 sales
• New Park200 sales
• Wimblington Road191 sales
• Camargue Drive188 sales
• St Johns Chase188 sales
• Gaul Road182 sales
• Cavalry Drive180 sales
• Upwell Road174 sales
• Elwyn Road173 sales
• Williams Way163 sales
• Burrowmoor Road162 sales
• Cavalry Park161 sales
• Cawood Close161 sales
• Landau Way157 sales
• Elm Road155 sales
• Cedar Avenue153 sales
• Nene Parade153 sales
• Westfield Road143 sales
• Elliott Road142 sales
• Hussars Court142 sales
• Foxglove Way140 sales
• Maple Grove131 sales
• Newgate Street130 sales
• Eastwood Avenue127 sales
• Highfield Road127 sales
• County Road123 sales
• Russell Avenue123 sales
• Peterhouse Crescent121 sales
• Worsley Chase119 sales
• Knights End Road112 sales
• March Road111 sales
• Grounds Avenue109 sales
• Scholars Close101 sales
• Heron Way100 sales
• Estover Road99 sales
• The Green96 sales
• Green Street95 sales
• Beech Avenue92 sales
• St Peters Road92 sales
• Teachers Close92 sales
• The Birches92 sales
• High School Close91 sales
• Pond Close89 sales
• Olivers Way88 sales
• Swanton Close88 sales
• Campbell Way86 sales
• The Avenue84 sales
• Benwick Road83 sales
• Hereward Street83 sales

Postcode districts covering March

• PE15£130,000 median

What is the average house price in March?

The median price paid in March across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 March?

19,794 sales are on record for March, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have March house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +40.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were March house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £242,500, 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 March?

£1,554 per square metre, from the 3,548 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 25 Jun 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, “March 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.