Eldon Street, Preston house prices are built from 208 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +1.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.5%.
Median price paid
£70,000
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+1.3%
Change in real terms
-16.5%
Median per m²
£690
HM Land Registry208 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Eldon Street, Preston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Eldon Street, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | £34,000 | £75,496 |
| 2000s | 9 | £91,475 | £166,641 |
| 2010s | 3 | £75,000 | £105,750 |
| 2020s | 1 | £76,000 | £77,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Eldon Street, Preston is £118,000 in 2007; the lowest is £25,250 in 1997. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £32,250 to £76,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,610, so the real change over the whole record is +34.1% — about +1.13% 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: +1.3% in cash against -16.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 261 | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £157,000 | £157,000 |
| 120b | 1 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 288 | 2 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £122,500 | £122,500 |
| 90 | 29 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 261 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £90,000 | £91,957 |
| 72 | 7 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £83,000 | £84,804 |
| 6 | 20 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £134,000 | £141,000 |
| 278 | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £102,000 | £107,328 |
| 160 | 27 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 286 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £115,000 | £124,253 |
| 2 | 14 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £132,000 | £142,621 |
| 235 | 20 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 108 | 18 May 2022 | Terraced | £92,000 | £106,590 |
| 81 | 24 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £111,000 | £128,603 |
| Flat D 120 | 6 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| 39 | 29 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| 107 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £82,000 | £103,602 |
| Flat C 120 | 19 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £69,000 | £87,177 |
| 54 | 16 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £92,000 | £116,237 |
| 89 | 12 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 58 | 23 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £105,500 | £136,598 |
| 284 | 22 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £107,000 | £138,540 |
| 192 | 24 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £71,000 | £92,866 |
| Flat A 120 | 17 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £69,950 | £93,223 |
| 13 | 4 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £86,000 | £114,612 |
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 Eldon Street, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 261 Eldon Street | £90,000 (2025) | £157,000 (2026) | +74.4% | +70.7% |
| 120B Eldon Street | £35,000 (1998) | £80,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 288 Eldon Street | £56,950 (2002) | £122,500 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 90 Eldon Street | £27,500 (1997) | £115,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 6 Eldon Street | £57,000 (2005) | £134,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 278 Eldon Street | £40,700 (1995) | £102,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 286 Eldon Street | £46,750 (1998) | £115,000 (2023) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 2 Eldon Street | £49,000 (2003) | £132,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 235 Eldon Street | £50,000 (2002) | £120,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 81 Eldon Street | £34,000 (1996) | £111,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| FLAT D 120 Eldon Street | £76,000 (2005) | £70,000 (2021) | -0.5% | -2.8% |
| 39 Eldon Street | £47,000 (2002) | £70,000 (2021) | +2.1% | -0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Eldon Street, Preston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 179 | 86.1% | £70,000 | £12,000 – £210,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 16 | 7.7% | £62,500 | £32,000 – £118,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 5.8% | £90,750 | £34,500 – £150,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.5% | £63,000 | £63,000 – £63,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Eldon Street, Preston
43 of the sales on record are leasehold and 165 freehold — 20.7% 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 £70,000 — a gap of 0.0%. 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 | 43 | 20.7% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 165 | 79.3% | £70,000 |
| New build | 4 | 1.9% | £41,593 |
| Existing home | 204 | 98.1% | £70,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -40.6%. 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 28 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 Eldon Street, Preston
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Preston, 48.0% of 80,620 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 843 | 1.0% |
| B | 10,763 | 13.4% |
| C | 27,112 | 33.6% |
| D | 28,536 | 35.4% |
| E | 10,169 | 12.6% |
| F | 2,384 | 3.0% |
| G | 813 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Preston at £786 a month as of Jun 2026 — £575 for a one-bedroom home and £853 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.47% 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 PR1, 742 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 220 violent, 19 burglary, 22 vehicle-related and 185 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.4 times busier.
Against the 147,835 residents the 2021 census counted in Preston, that is 5.02 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 Eldon Street, Preston
The 2021 census counted 147,835 residents in Preston across 59,607 households. 59.1% of those households own their home and 40.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
34 state and independent schools have a PR1 postcode: 24 primary, 7 secondary, 2 16 plus, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Hallows Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 911 |
| Penwortham Girls' High School | Secondary | Community school | 799 |
| Penwortham Priory Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 745 |
| Deepdale Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 696 |
| Eden Boys' School, Preston | Secondary | Free schools | 615 |
| Preston Muslim Girls High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 607 |
| Moor Park High School and Sixth Form | Secondary | Foundation school | 599 |
| Christ The King Catholic High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 446 |
| St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 415 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston | Primary | Academy converter | 347 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bamber Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Leyland Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
| Salwick Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 9.7 km |
Section 09
How Eldon Street, Preston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Eldon Street, Preston sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Preston the street ranks 3361 of 3749 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £125,000 (-44.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £690 per square metre, across 46 of the 208 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 £12,000 to £210,000. 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.
Eldon Street, Preston sits in Preston, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Preston at 5.0 times median local earnings of £38,066 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
- New Hall Lane£77,000 median
- Leyland Road£104,950 median
- Avenham Lane£37,000 median
- Plungington Road£68,500 median
- St Georges Road£61,000 median
- Cop Lane£156,000 median
- Norris Street£80,000 median
- Cloughfield£112,000 median
- Skeffington Road£49,450 median
- Samuel Street£30,000 median
- Marsh Way£81,975 median
- Beamont Drive£74,500 median
- St Stephens Road£69,000 median
- Pope Lane£108,000 median
- Church Street£140,000 median
- Miller Road£60,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 288 Eldon Street4 sales
- 107 Eldon Street4 sales
- 58 Eldon Street4 sales
- 192 Eldon Street4 sales
- 16 Eldon Street4 sales
- 259 Eldon Street4 sales
- 156 Eldon Street4 sales
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- 298 Eldon Street4 sales
- 170 Eldon Street4 sales
- 181 Eldon Street4 sales
- 296 Eldon Street4 sales
- 173 Eldon Street4 sales
- 86 Eldon Street4 sales
- 120B Eldon Street3 sales
- 6 Eldon Street3 sales
- 278 Eldon Street3 sales
- 286 Eldon Street3 sales
- 2 Eldon Street3 sales
- 81 Eldon Street3 sales
- 88 Eldon Street3 sales
- 83 Eldon Street3 sales
- 43 Eldon Street3 sales
- 98 Eldon Street3 sales
Back to Preston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Eldon Street, Preston?
The median price paid in Eldon Street, Preston across every sale on the register is £70,000. 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 Eldon Street, Preston?
208 sales are on record for Eldon Street, Preston, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Eldon Street, Preston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +1.3% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Eldon Street, Preston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £118,000, 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 Eldon Street, Preston?
£690 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 5 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, “Eldon Street, Preston 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.