Main Street, Retford house prices are built from 431 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £193,750. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +72.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +24.7%.
Median price paid
£193,750
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+72.1%
Change in real terms
+24.7%
Median per m²
£2,825
HM Land Registry431 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 6 May 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Retford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, Retford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £67,000 | £148,772 |
| 2000s | 10 | £194,000 | £353,411 |
| 2010s | 10 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 6 | £290,000 | £296,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Retford is £370,000 in 2025; the lowest is £62,250 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £64,500 to £370,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £143,220, so the real change over the whole record is +164.0% — about +3.29% 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: +72.1% in cash against +24.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gainsborough House | 6 May 2026 | Detached | £337,500 | £337,500 |
| Willow Tree Cottage | 6 Feb 2026 | Detached | £178,000 | £178,000 |
| Chapel Lodge | 5 Feb 2026 | Detached | £690,000 | £690,000 |
| Chez Nous | 19 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £369,000 | £377,022 |
| Springfield House | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £455,000 | £464,891 |
| Home | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 2 the Lodge | 7 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| Willow Cottage | 4 Jul 2025 | Detached | £545,000 | £556,848 |
| 11 | 4 Jul 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| Ashcroft | 7 Feb 2025 | Detached | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 37 | 28 Oct 2024 | Detached | £330,000 | £347,239 |
| Tangletrees | 18 Oct 2024 | Detached | £312,500 | £328,825 |
| South View | 4 Oct 2024 | Detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 36 | 30 Jul 2024 | Detached | £255,000 | £268,321 |
| Barn Lea | 13 Jun 2024 | Detached | £297,500 | £313,041 |
| 18 | 11 Jun 2024 | Detached | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| Struan House | 4 Apr 2024 | Detached | £390,000 | £410,373 |
| Old School House | 8 Feb 2024 | Detached | £650,000 | £683,955 |
| Broadclyst | 8 Feb 2024 | Detached | £352,000 | £370,388 |
| 7 Butchers Mews | 5 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| Ladyfingers | 24 Nov 2023 | Detached | £490,000 | £529,425 |
| Harlow | 15 Sep 2023 | Detached | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| Rose Cottage | 25 Aug 2023 | Detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 9 | 18 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| Field House Lodge | 18 Aug 2023 | Detached | £315,000 | £340,345 |
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 Main Street, Retford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE Main Street | £82,000 (1999) | £337,500 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| CHAPEL LODGE Main Street | £31,000 (1995) | £690,000 (2026) | +10.5% | +7.7% |
| SPRINGFIELD HOUSE Main Street | £242,000 (2007) | £455,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| WILLOW COTTAGE Main Street | £142,000 (1995) | £545,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 11 Main Street | £155,000 (2019) | £350,000 (2025) | +14.5% | +9.9% |
| ASHCROFT Main Street | £141,000 (2001) | £420,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
| 37 Main Street | £74,000 (2001) | £330,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| SOUTH VIEW Main Street | £136,000 (2005) | £220,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 36 Main Street | £143,000 (2022) | £255,000 (2024) | +33.5% | +27.3% |
| 18 Main Street | £130,000 (1995) | £415,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| STRUAN HOUSE Main Street | £60,000 (1998) | £390,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Main Street | £568,304 (2022) | £650,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Retford 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 | 310 | 71.9% | £217,500 | £23,500 – £715,000 |
| Semi-detached | 81 | 18.8% | £149,950 | £22,500 – £390,000 |
| Terraced | 40 | 9.3% | £124,950 | £25,546 – £550,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Retford
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 431 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 431 | 100.0% | £193,750 |
| New build | 19 | 4.4% | £134,950 |
| Existing home | 412 | 95.6% | £196,625 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -31.4%. 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 33 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 Main Street, Retford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bassetlaw, 42.0% of 64,248 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 246 | 0.4% |
| B | 8,267 | 12.9% |
| C | 18,501 | 28.8% |
| D | 23,722 | 36.9% |
| E | 9,589 | 14.9% |
| F | 3,075 | 4.8% |
| G | 848 | 1.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bassetlaw at £720 a month as of Jun 2026 — £498 for a one-bedroom home and £792 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £193,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.46% 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 DN22, 121 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 2 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.
Against the 117,804 residents the 2021 census counted in Bassetlaw, that is 1.03 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 Main Street, Retford
The 2021 census counted 117,804 residents in Bassetlaw across 51,458 households. 68.7% of those households own their home and 31.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a DN22 postcode: 17 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Elizabethan Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,230 |
| Retford Oaks Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,080 |
| Ordsall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 576 |
| Carr Hill Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 308 |
| Bracken Lane Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 233 |
| St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 224 |
| Thrumpton Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 223 |
| Clarborough Primary School | Primary | Community school | 205 |
| Ranskill Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 147 |
| North Wheatley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 123 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Retford Low Level Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Retford Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Gainsborough Lea Road Rail Station | Rail | 12.6 km |
| Worksop Rail Station | Rail | 13.0 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Retford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Retford sits above that national figure — +23.0%.
Within Retford the street ranks 160 of 533 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £128,000 (+51.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,825 per square metre, across 1 of the 431 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 £22,500 to £715,000. 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.
Main Street, Retford sits in Bassetlaw, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bassetlaw at 6.2 times median local earnings of £32,485 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
- Town Street£180,000 median
- Station Road£155,000 median
- Cobwell Road£83,000 median
- Albert Road£75,000 median
- Welham Grove£90,000 median
- North Road£148,000 median
- Waterfields£150,000 median
- London Road£132,500 median
- Moorgate£79,600 median
- High Street£139,000 median
- West Carr Road£80,000 median
- Church Lane£183,750 median
- Camborne Crescent£116,000 median
- Holdenby Close£47,725 median
- Ollerton Road£106,000 median
- Ordsall Road£144,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- ROSE COTTAGE Main Street8 sales
- SOUTH VIEW Main Street6 sales
- ALVOR Main Street6 sales
- WILLOW COTTAGE Main Street5 sales
- BLACKSMITHS COTTAGE Main Street5 sales
- 38 Main Street5 sales
- 108 Main Street5 sales
- CHAPEL LODGE Main Street4 sales
- 18 Main Street4 sales
- FIELD HOUSE LODGE Main Street4 sales
- HILLCROFT Main Street4 sales
- CLOVERDALE Main Street4 sales
- MILL HAVEN Main Street4 sales
- SELBY COTTAGE Main Street4 sales
- CHESTNUT CORNER Main Street4 sales
- THE OLD COTTAGE Main Street4 sales
- HOLBECK Main Street4 sales
- JAYDENE Main Street4 sales
- BAY TREES Main Street4 sales
- WILLOW BROOK Main Street4 sales
- CATHAY COTTAGE Main Street4 sales
- GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE Main Street3 sales
- 11 Main Street3 sales
- ASHCROFT Main Street3 sales
Back to Retford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Retford?
The median price paid in Main Street, Retford across every sale on the register is £193,750. 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 Main Street, Retford?
431 sales are on record for Main Street, Retford, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Street, Retford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +72.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +24.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Retford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £370,000, 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 Main Street, Retford?
£2,825 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 6 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, “Main Street, Retford 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.