Hoyles Lane, Preston house prices are built from 215 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 21 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £249,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +7.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -23.2%.
Median price paid
£249,995
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+7.2%
Change in real terms
-23.2%
Median per m²
£4,507
HM Land Registry215 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 21 May 2026
Section 01
How Hoyles Lane, Preston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Hoyles Lane, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £92,000 | £204,283 |
| 2000s | 8 | £217,500 | £396,221 |
| 2010s | 8 | £261,500 | £368,715 |
| 2020s | 6 | £304,000 | £310,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Hoyles Lane, Preston is £377,500 in 2025; the lowest is £92,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £108,500 to £290,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £230,053, so the real change over the whole record is +26.1% — about +0.80% 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: +7.2% in cash against -23.2% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 208 | 26 Feb 2026 | Detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 172a | 20 Feb 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 248 | 30 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 5 | 15 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 225 | 11 Dec 2025 | Detached | £585,000 | £597,717 |
| 257 | 20 Nov 2025 | Detached | £750,000 | £766,304 |
| 197 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £352,000 | £359,652 |
| 161 | 10 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 183 | 22 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £352,000 | £359,652 |
| 280 | 30 May 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 73 | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| 243 | 17 Feb 2025 | Detached | £800,000 | £817,391 |
| 157 | 27 Jan 2025 | Detached | £850,000 | £868,478 |
| 276 | 10 Jan 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 142 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £535,000 | £562,948 |
| 202 | 28 Nov 2024 | Detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 146 | 30 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 260 | 22 Jul 2024 | Detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 183 | 16 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 154 | 8 Feb 2024 | Detached | £288,000 | £303,045 |
| 19 | 13 Oct 2023 | Detached | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| 181 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 211 | 24 Feb 2023 | Detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 286 | 14 Oct 2022 | Detached | £257,500 | £298,336 |
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 Hoyles Lane, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 Hoyles Lane | £203,000 (2012) | £290,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 208 Hoyles Lane | £232,750 (2021) | £285,000 (2026) | +4.1% | -0.6% |
| 5 Hoyles Lane | £50,000 (1995) | £240,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 225 Hoyles Lane | £280,000 (2002) | £585,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 257 Hoyles Lane | £218,750 (1998) | £750,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 197 Hoyles Lane | £140,000 (2002) | £352,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 161 Hoyles Lane | £78,950 (1998) | £220,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 183 Hoyles Lane | £165,000 (2024) | £352,000 (2025) | +113.3% | +107.1% |
| 280 Hoyles Lane | £337,750 (2020) | £370,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -2.9% |
| 243 Hoyles Lane | £480,000 (2015) | £800,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +1.9% |
| 157 Hoyles Lane | £450,000 (2007) | £850,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 276 Hoyles Lane | £230,750 (2018) | £250,000 (2025) | +1.2% | -2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hoyles Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 125 | 58.1% | £305,000 | £69,000 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 85 | 39.5% | £200,000 | £49,950 – £355,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 1.4% | £155,000 | £150,000 – £205,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.9% | £142,500 | £142,500 – £407,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Hoyles Lane, Preston
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 197 freehold — 8.4% 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 £281,875 and the median freehold sale £249,000 — a gap of -11.7%. 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 | 18 | 8.4% | £281,875 |
| Freehold | 197 | 91.6% | £249,000 |
| New build | 41 | 19.1% | £279,000 |
| Existing home | 174 | 80.9% | £247,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +13.0%. 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 14 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 Hoyles Lane, Preston
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chorley, 49.1% of 53,253 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 472 | 0.9% |
| B | 7,878 | 14.8% |
| C | 17,819 | 33.5% |
| D | 19,242 | 36.1% |
| E | 5,947 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,439 | 2.7% |
| G | 456 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chorley at £785 a month as of Jun 2026 — £589 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £249,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.77% 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 PR4, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.
Against the 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 0.01 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 Hoyles Lane, Preston
The 2021 census counted 117,732 residents in Chorley across 50,135 households. 72.8% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
32 state and independent schools have a PR4 postcode: 29 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutton Church of England Grammar School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 807 |
| Carr Hill High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 790 |
| Tarleton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 674 |
| Cottam Primary School | Primary | Community school | 308 |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Longton | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 246 |
| Tarleton Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 242 |
| New Longton All Saints CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 217 |
| Longton Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 213 |
| The Willows Catholic Primary School, Kirkham | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Tarleton Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Salwick Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Kirkham & Wesham Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Moss Side Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
| Lytham Rail Station | Rail | 8.9 km |
Section 09
How Hoyles Lane, Preston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hoyles Lane, Preston sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Preston the street ranks 644 of 3749 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £125,000 (+100.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,507 per square metre, across 1 of the 215 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 £49,950 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.
Hoyles Lane, Preston sits in Chorley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chorley at 6.3 times median local earnings of £34,980 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
- Station Road£97,000 median
- Lytham Road£128,000 median
- Liverpool Road£188,000 median
- Liverpool Old Road£150,000 median
- School Lane£139,000 median
- Chapel Lane£215,000 median
- Hesketh Lane£181,000 median
- Woodplumpton Road£135,000 median
- Church Road£158,500 median
- Dorchester Road£190,000 median
- Preston Old Road£138,000 median
- Maxy House Road£238,750 median
- Ribby Road£167,250 median
- Wellington Street£79,500 median
- Redwood Drive£231,000 median
- Butlers Meadow£83,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 181 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 197 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 147 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 164 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 189 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 63 Hoyles Lane4 sales
- 5 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 225 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 257 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 161 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 243 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 157 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 19 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 25 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 135 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 252 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 11 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 85 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 197A Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 158 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 203 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 59 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 148 Hoyles Lane3 sales
- 145 Hoyles Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Hoyles Lane, Preston?
The median price paid in Hoyles Lane, Preston across every sale on the register is £249,995. 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 Hoyles Lane, Preston?
215 sales are on record for Hoyles Lane, Preston, the most recent completing on 21 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Hoyles Lane, Preston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +7.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -23.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Hoyles Lane, Preston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £377,500, 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 Hoyles Lane, Preston?
£4,507 per square metre, from the 1 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 21 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, “Hoyles Lane, 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.