Sold Price History


Esplanade, Ryde house prices

Esplanade, Ryde house prices are built from 115 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £112,000. Across the 15 years from 2004 to 2019 the median moved +46.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.2%.

Median price paid

£112,000

Change in cash, 2004–2019

+46.4%

Change in real terms

+3.2%

Median per m²

£2,254

HM Land Registry115 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Sep 2024

Section 01

How Esplanade, Ryde prices moved

The chart tracks the median Esplanade, Ryde house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2019. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Esplanade, Ryde house prices by year, median price paid 1997 to 2019
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s2£52,500£116,575
2000s2£89,975£163,908
2010s4£132,000£186,120
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Esplanade, Ryde is £161,000 in 2019; the lowest is £52,500 in 1998. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £62,250 to £161,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £131,989, so the real change over the whole record is +59.5% — about +2.15% 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: +46.4% in cash against +3.2% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
Flat 5 Vokins Rise27 Sep 2024Flat or maisonette£234,000£246,224
Flat 19 Solent Court11 Sep 2024Flat or maisonette£220,000£231,493
Flat 11 Solent Court14 Jul 2023Flat or maisonette£180,000£194,483
Flat 18 Solent Court15 May 2023Flat or maisonette£235,000£253,908
Flat 11 Vokins Rise31 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£225,000£260,682
Flat 5 Vokins Rise25 Aug 2021Flat or maisonette£199,950£252,625
Flat 5 Solent Court30 Jul 2021Flat or maisonette£205,000£259,005
Flat 20 Solent Court16 Jul 2021Flat or maisonette£130,000£164,247
2519 Feb 2021Terraced£226,500£286,169
Flat 14 Solent Court2 Jul 2020Flat or maisonette£115,250£149,222
Flat 12 Solent Court4 Jun 2020Flat or maisonette£145,000£187,741
Flat 15 Solent Court3 Jun 2020Flat or maisonette£185,000£239,532
Flat 3 Solent Court20 Mar 2020Flat or maisonette£105,000£135,950
Flat 2 Vokins Rise11 Oct 2019Flat or maisonette£155,000£202,737
Flat 18 Solent Court18 Jul 2019Flat or maisonette£206,000£269,443
Flat 1 Solent Court10 Jul 2019Flat or maisonette£170,000£222,356
Flat 8 Vokins Rise6 Jun 2019Flat or maisonette£167,000£218,432
Flat 3 Vokins Rise1 Feb 2019Flat or maisonette£125,000£163,497
Flat 20 Solent Court4 Jan 2019Flat or maisonette£108,000£141,262
Flat 21 Solent Court21 Jul 2017Flat or maisonette£175,000£238,176
Flat 9 Solent Court9 Feb 2017Flat or maisonette£125,000£170,125
Flat 20 Solent Court21 Nov 2016Flat or maisonette£108,000£150,772
Flat 18 Solent Court29 Feb 2016Flat or maisonette£155,000£216,386
Flat 2 Solent Court15 Feb 2016Flat or maisonette£105,000£146,584
Flat 19 Solent Court25 Sep 2015Flat or maisonette£140,000£197,400
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Esplanade, Ryde values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 5 VOKINS RISE Esplanade£125,000 (2003)£234,000 (2024)+3.0%+0.2%
FLAT 19 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£81,200 (1998)£220,000 (2024)+3.9%+1.2%
FLAT 11 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£47,500 (1997)£180,000 (2023)+5.3%+2.6%
FLAT 18 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£45,500 (1998)£235,000 (2023)+6.8%+4.0%
FLAT 11 VOKINS RISE Esplanade£100,000 (2003)£225,000 (2022)+4.4%+1.7%
FLAT 5 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£60,000 (1997)£205,000 (2021)+5.3%+3.0%
FLAT 20 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£45,000 (1998)£130,000 (2021)+4.7%+2.5%
25 Esplanade£150,000 (2014)£226,500 (2021)+6.1%+4.2%
FLAT 14 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£42,500 (1999)£115,250 (2020)+4.9%+2.6%
FLAT 12 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£46,500 (1998)£145,000 (2020)+5.3%+3.1%
FLAT 15 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£66,750 (1998)£185,000 (2020)+4.7%+2.5%
FLAT 3 SOLENT COURT Esplanade£39,950 (1999)£105,000 (2020)+4.7%+2.5%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette10389.6%£110,000£38,000 – £235,000
Terraced97.8%£150,000£45,950 – £250,000
Semi-detached21.7%£172,000£172,000 – £240,000
Detached10.9%£30,000£30,000 – £30,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Esplanade, Ryde

105 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10 freehold — 91.3% 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 £108,000 and the median freehold sale £188,500 — a gap of +74.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold10591.3%£108,000
Freehold108.7%£188,500
New build1714.8%£64,500
Existing home9885.2%£123,475
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -47.8%. 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 13 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 Esplanade, Ryde

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Isle of Wight, 41.6% of 79,796 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A3690.5%
B7,5799.5%
C25,23331.6%
D27,75034.8%
E13,09016.4%
F4,2685.3%
G1,5071.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Isle of Wight.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Isle of Wight at £948 a month as of Jun 2026 — £661 for a one-bedroom home and £1,085 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £112,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.16% 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 PO33, 174 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 96 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 140,459 residents the 2021 census counted in Isle of Wight, that is 1.24 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 Esplanade, Ryde

The 2021 census counted 140,459 residents in Isle of Wight across 64,775 households. 68.4% of those households own their home and 31.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

9 state and independent schools have a PO33 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Lift RydeSecondaryAcademy sponsor led1,461
Haylands Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school357
Greenmount Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school280
Wootton Community Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school205
Dover Park Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school204
Binstead Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school202
Oakfield Church of England Aided Primary School, RydePrimaryVoluntary aided school185
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school182
St Helens Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school96
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Ryde Esplanade Rail StationRail1.4 km
Ryde HoverportFerry1.5 km
Smallbrook Junction (Isle of Wight Steam RailwayTram1.6 km
Smallbrook Junction (Isle of Wight Steam RailwayMetro or underground1.6 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Esplanade, Ryde compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Esplanade, Ryde sits below that national figure — -28.9%.

Within Ryde the street ranks 315 of 401 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-17.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,254 per square metre, across 28 of the 115 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 £30,000 to £250,000. 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.

Esplanade, Ryde sits in Isle of Wight, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Isle of Wight at 9.3 times median local earnings of £28,543 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Ryde house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Esplanade, Ryde?

The median price paid in Esplanade, Ryde across every sale on the register is £112,000. 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 Esplanade, Ryde?

115 sales are on record for Esplanade, Ryde, the most recent completing on 27 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Esplanade, Ryde house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +46.4% between 2004 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Esplanade, Ryde house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £161,000, set in 2019. 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 Esplanade, Ryde?

£2,254 per square metre, from the 28 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 27 Sep 2024. 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, “Esplanade, Ryde 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.