Cowslip Drive, Peterborough house prices

Cowslip Drive, Peterborough house prices are built from 159 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £86,500. Across the 10 years from 1997 to 2007 the median moved +161.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +114.2%.

HM Land Registry159 salesLatest sale 8 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Cowslip Drive, Peterborough house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2007. 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 Cowslip Drive, Peterborough is £146,250 in 2007; the lowest is £44,950 in 1998. Across the full 12-year record the cash median has moved from £49,995 to £146,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,451, so the real change over the whole record is +134.5% — about +8.05% 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: +161.2% in cash against +114.2% 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 Cowslip Drive, Peterborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 159 freehold — 0.0% 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -60.2%. 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 1 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 Peterborough, 57.0% of 113,224 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.6% 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 Peterborough at £993 a month as of Jun 2026 — £696 for a one-bedroom home and £1,057 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £86,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.78% 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.

The 2021 census counted 215,671 residents in Peterborough across 84,533 households. 56.9% of those households own their home and 43.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a PE6 postcode: 13 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. Cowslip Drive, Peterborough sits below that national figure — -45.1%.

Within Peterborough the street ranks 2434 of 2740 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-35.9%).

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.

The full range on record runs from £29,995 to £350,000. 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.

Cowslip Drive, Peterborough sits in Peterborough, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Peterborough at 6.7 times median local earnings of £36,050 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

• Church Street£170,000 median
• High Street£125,000 median
• Eastgate£173,500 median
• Fountains Place£114,000 median
• Wisbech Road£130,250 median
• Harvester Way£111,813 median
• Northfield Road£131,750 median
• Swift Close£152,500 median
• Westminster Gardens£142,000 median
• Manor Way£120,000 median
• Tattershall Drive£150,250 median
• Ryefield£84,950 median
• Lady Margarets Avenue£131,750 median
• Burchnall Close£132,000 median
• Truesdale Gardens£160,000 median
• Thorney Road£145,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 14 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 18 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 29 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 20 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 19 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 53 Cowslip Drive6 sales
• 4 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 31 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 17 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 27 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 36 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 16 Cowslip Drive5 sales
• 22 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 45 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 33 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 41 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 34 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 2 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 7 Cowslip Drive4 sales
• 35 Cowslip Drive3 sales
• 8 Cowslip Drive3 sales
• 11 Cowslip Drive3 sales
• 23 Cowslip Drive3 sales
• 9 Cowslip Drive3 sales

Back to Peterborough house prices.

What is the average house price in Cowslip Drive, Peterborough?

The median price paid in Cowslip Drive, Peterborough across every sale on the register is £86,500. 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 Cowslip Drive, Peterborough?

159 sales are on record for Cowslip Drive, Peterborough, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Cowslip Drive, Peterborough house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +161.2% between 1997 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +114.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Cowslip Drive, Peterborough house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £146,250, set in 2007. 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 Cowslip Drive, Peterborough?

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 8 May 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, “Cowslip Drive, Peterborough 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.