Rectors Gate, Retford house prices are built from 134 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 13 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,500. Across the 14 years from 2004 to 2018 the median moved +57.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.4%.
Median price paid
£168,500
Change in cash, 2004–2018
+57.9%
Change in real terms
+13.4%
Median per m²
£1,402
HM Land Registry134 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Rectors Gate, Retford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rectors Gate, Retford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2018. 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 | 1 | £115,500 | £256,465 |
| 2000s | 4 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 2 | £300,000 | £423,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rectors Gate, Retford is £323,750 in 2017; the lowest is £110,000 in 2000. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £115,500 to £300,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £235,340, so the real change over the whole record is +69.9% — about +2.83% 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: +57.9% in cash against +13.4% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 13 Mar 2026 | Detached | £272,500 | £272,500 |
| 12 | 15 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 6 | 15 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 32 | 9 Apr 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 28 | 21 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 33 | 2 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £217,000 | £228,336 |
| 2 | 19 Apr 2024 | Detached | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 25 | 19 Jan 2024 | Detached | £238,000 | £250,433 |
| 46 | 16 Oct 2023 | Detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 9 | 26 Aug 2022 | Detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 40 | 27 May 2022 | Detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 35 | 30 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 3 | 6 Aug 2021 | Detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 16 | 20 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 67 | 9 Mar 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 15 | 13 Nov 2020 | Detached | £255,000 | £330,165 |
| 62 | 22 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| 32 | 12 Aug 2019 | Detached | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| 12 | 14 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £210,000 | £274,675 |
| 58 | 25 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £222,500 | £296,526 |
| 65 | 7 Sep 2018 | Detached | £439,000 | £585,057 |
| 46 | 1 Aug 2018 | Detached | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 6 | 26 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £195,000 | £259,877 |
| 64 | 19 Mar 2018 | Detached | £449,000 | £598,384 |
| 60 | 24 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £199,500 | £271,520 |
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 Rectors Gate, Retford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Rectors Gate | £110,000 (1999) | £272,500 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 6 Rectors Gate | £95,000 (2000) | £240,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| 12 Rectors Gate | £115,000 (2000) | £265,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 32 Rectors Gate | £135,000 (1999) | £450,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 28 Rectors Gate | £85,750 (2000) | £220,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 33 Rectors Gate | £103,000 (2000) | £217,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 2 Rectors Gate | £133,000 (1999) | £355,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 46 Rectors Gate | £122,500 (2000) | £225,000 (2023) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 9 Rectors Gate | £135,000 (1999) | £495,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 40 Rectors Gate | £122,500 (2000) | £425,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 35 Rectors Gate | £98,000 (2000) | £205,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| 3 Rectors Gate | £117,250 (1998) | £325,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rectors Gate, 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 | 70 | 52.2% | £195,000 | £100,700 – £495,000 |
| Terraced | 43 | 32.1% | £167,000 | £81,000 – £265,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 15.7% | £157,950 | £85,750 – £220,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rectors Gate, Retford
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 134 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 | 134 | 100.0% | £168,500 |
| New build | 64 | 47.8% | £117,625 |
| Existing home | 70 | 52.2% | £199,975 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -41.2%. 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 2 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 Rectors Gate, 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 £168,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.13% 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 Rectors Gate, 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 Rectors Gate, Retford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rectors Gate, Retford sits above that national figure — +7.0%.
Within Retford the street ranks 204 of 533 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £128,000 (+31.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,402 per square metre, across 37 of the 134 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 £81,000 to £495,000. 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.
Rectors Gate, 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
- Main Street£193,750 median
- 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 25 Rectors Gate6 sales
- 6 Rectors Gate5 sales
- 9 Rectors Gate5 sales
- 40 Rectors Gate5 sales
- 16 Rectors Gate5 sales
- 3 Rectors Gate4 sales
- 4 Rectors Gate4 sales
- 18 Rectors Gate4 sales
- 12 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 32 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 28 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 33 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 46 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 35 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 15 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 17 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 55 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 7 Rectors Gate3 sales
- 2 Rectors Gate2 sales
- 67 Rectors Gate2 sales
- 62 Rectors Gate2 sales
- 23 Rectors Gate2 sales
- 47 Rectors Gate2 sales
- 51 Rectors Gate2 sales
Back to Retford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rectors Gate, Retford?
The median price paid in Rectors Gate, Retford across every sale on the register is £168,500. 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 Rectors Gate, Retford?
134 sales are on record for Rectors Gate, Retford, the most recent completing on 13 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rectors Gate, Retford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +57.9% between 2004 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rectors Gate, Retford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £323,750, set in 2017. 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 Rectors Gate, Retford?
£1,402 per square metre, from the 37 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 13 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, “Rectors Gate, 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.