Samuel Street, Preston house prices

Samuel Street, Preston house prices are built from 242 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £30,000. Across the 12 years from 2011 to 2023 the median moved +10.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.4%.

HM Land Registry242 sales92 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Samuel Street, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 Samuel Street, Preston is £54,500 in 2008; the lowest is £9,000 in 2000. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £25,125 to £41,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £55,789, so the real change over the whole record is -20.6% — about -0.82% 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: +10.1% in cash against -22.4% 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 Samuel Street, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

207 of the sales on record are leasehold and 35 freehold — 85.5% 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 £29,000 and the median freehold sale £51,000 — a gap of +75.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 37 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 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.

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 £30,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 31.44% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Samuel Street, Preston sits below that national figure — -81.0%.

Within Preston the street ranks 3742 of 3749 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £125,000 (-76.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £556 per square metre, across 92 of the 242 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 £4,000 to £133,000. 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.

Samuel 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.

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
• Marsh Way£81,975 median
• Beamont Drive£74,500 median
• St Stephens Road£69,000 median
• Eldon Street£70,000 median
• Pope Lane£108,000 median
• Church Street£140,000 median
• Miller Road£60,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 4, MEDWAY HOUSE Samuel Street7 sales
• 14, CONWAY HOUSE Samuel Street5 sales
• 8, RIBBLE HOUSE Samuel Street5 sales
• 2, MEDWAY HOUSE Samuel Street5 sales
• 53 Samuel Street5 sales
• 4, SEVERN HOUSE Samuel Street5 sales
• 45 Samuel Street4 sales
• 11, RIBBLE HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 2, AVON HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 9, DERWENT HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 12, AVON HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 55 Samuel Street4 sales
• 3, DERWENT HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 6, SEVERN HOUSE Samuel Street4 sales
• 3, THAMES HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 5, MEDWAY HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 8, SEVERN HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 13 Samuel Street3 sales
• 8, CONWAY HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 11, MEDWAY HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 8, AVON HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 12, CONWAY HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 6, DERWENT HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales
• 6, RIBBLE HOUSE Samuel Street3 sales

Back to Preston house prices.

What is the average house price in Samuel Street, Preston?

The median price paid in Samuel Street, Preston across every sale on the register is £30,000. 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 Samuel Street, Preston?

242 sales are on record for Samuel Street, Preston, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Samuel Street, Preston house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +10.1% between 2011 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Samuel Street, Preston house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £54,500, set in 2008. 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 Samuel Street, Preston?

£556 per square metre, from the 92 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 20 Mar 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, “Samuel 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.