Melville Street, Ryde house prices

Melville Street, Ryde house prices are built from 124 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 12 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £107,000. Across the 12 years from 2011 to 2023 the median moved +19.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.0%.

HM Land Registry124 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Melville Street, Ryde house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 Melville Street, Ryde is £322,500 in 2021; the lowest is £29,500 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £29,500 to £133,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £63,992, so the real change over the whole record is +125.4% — about +3.06% 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: +19.2% in cash against -16.0% 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 Melville Street, Ryde values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

98 of the sales on record are leasehold and 26 freehold — 79.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £100,250 and the median freehold sale £208,500 — a gap of +108.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.3%. 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 10 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 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.

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 £107,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.63% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Melville Street, Ryde sits below that national figure — -32.1%.

Within Ryde the street ranks 324 of 401 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-21.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,929 per square metre, across 35 of the 124 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 £25,000 to £770,000. 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.

Melville Street, 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.

Streets nearby

• West Hill Road£92,750 median
• Mary Rose Avenue£80,000 median
• High Street£114,700 median
• George Street£85,000 median
• St Edmunds Walk£164,500 median
• Binstead Lodge Road£157,000 median
• Monkton Street£112,000 median
• East Hill Road£100,000 median
• Marlborough Road£175,000 median
• High Park Road£124,500 median
• Station Road£206,250 median
• The Strand£110,000 median
• Great Preston Road£142,250 median
• Church Road£217,500 median
• Arthur Street£128,000 median
• St Thomas Street£120,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 5 Melville Street4 sales
• FLAT 7, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street4 sales
• 28 Melville Street4 sales
• FLAT 15, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street4 sales
• 16 Melville Street4 sales
• FLAT 3, 45 Melville Street4 sales
• FLAT 8, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street3 sales
• THE MAISONETTE, 41 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 2, 45 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 16, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 12, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 14, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 1, 45 Melville Street3 sales
• BASEMENT FLOOR FLAT, WYNDHAM HOUSE, 10 Melville Street3 sales
• 47 Melville Street3 sales
• FLAT 10, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street2 sales
• FLAT 4, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street2 sales
• FLAT 11, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street2 sales
• FLAT 17, ROSE COURT, 48 Melville Street2 sales
• FLAT 5, 45 Melville Street2 sales
• 23 Melville Street2 sales
• 27 Melville Street2 sales
• 2B Melville Street2 sales
• 26 Melville Street2 sales

Back to Ryde house prices.

What is the average house price in Melville Street, Ryde?

The median price paid in Melville Street, Ryde across every sale on the register is £107,000. 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 Melville Street, Ryde?

124 sales are on record for Melville Street, Ryde, the most recent completing on 12 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Melville Street, Ryde house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +19.2% between 2011 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Melville Street, Ryde house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £322,500, set in 2021. 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 Melville Street, Ryde?

£1,929 per square metre, from the 35 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 12 Nov 2025. 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, “Melville Street, 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.