Nelson Street, Ryde house prices are built from 116 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £84,520. Across the 8 years from 1997 to 2005 the median moved +290.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +235.4%.
Median price paid
£84,520
Change in cash, 1997–2005
+290.4%
Change in real terms
+235.4%
Median per m²
£1,000
HM Land Registry116 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Nelson Street, Ryde prices moved
The chart tracks the median Nelson Street, Ryde house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2005. 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 | £43,000 | £95,480 |
| 2000s | 5 | £61,950 | £112,855 |
The highest yearly median on record for Nelson Street, Ryde is £167,875 in 2005; the lowest is £39,000 in 2000. Across the full 9-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £167,875.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £91,173, so the real change over the whole record is +235.4% — about +16.33% 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: +290.4% in cash against +235.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 3 11 | 23 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £105,000 |
| 29 | 17 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £113,500 | £115,967 |
| 34 | 24 Sep 2024 | Detached | £196,063 | £206,305 |
| 16 | 4 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £152,500 | £160,466 |
| 9 | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 26 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 32 | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £620,000 | £669,885 |
| Flat D 30 | 27 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 39 | 29 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £292,000 | £338,307 |
| 44 | 21 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| Flat 2 11 | 24 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £84,040 | £108,812 |
| 38 | 20 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £95,000 | £123,003 |
| Flat C 30 | 22 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £143,878 |
| Flat 5 5 | 20 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £163,497 |
| 2 | 18 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 15 | 12 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £312,800 | £416,870 |
| 12 | 24 May 2018 | Terraced | £155,250 | £206,902 |
| Flat 3 14 | 29 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £99,000 | £131,938 |
| 50 | 19 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £80,000 | £111,683 |
| 43 | 6 May 2016 | Terraced | £230,000 | £321,089 |
| 9 | 28 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £270,000 | £380,700 |
| 8 | 6 Feb 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £207,500 | £292,575 |
| Flat 2 14 | 6 May 2014 | Terraced | £112,500 | £161,368 |
| Flat A 30 | 3 Jan 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £66,000 | £94,669 |
| 34 | 4 Oct 2013 | Detached | £347,500 | £506,696 |
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 Nelson Street, Ryde values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 3 11 Nelson Street | £31,500 (1999) | £105,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 29 Nelson Street | £30,000 (2000) | £113,500 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 34 Nelson Street | £340,000 (2010) | £196,063 (2024) | -3.9% | -6.7% |
| 9 Nelson Street | £78,500 (2000) | £270,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 32 Nelson Street | £340,000 (2010) | £620,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.6% |
| FLAT D 30 Nelson Street | £115,000 (2004) | £145,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.3% |
| 39 Nelson Street | £80,000 (2001) | £292,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 44 Nelson Street | £70,000 (1997) | £365,000 (2020) | +7.4% | +5.2% |
| FLAT 2 11 Nelson Street | £24,000 (1997) | £84,040 (2020) | +5.6% | +3.4% |
| 38 Nelson Street | £31,000 (2000) | £95,000 (2020) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| FLAT C 30 Nelson Street | £35,000 (2000) | £110,000 (2019) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| FLAT 5 5 Nelson Street | £26,000 (1997) | £125,000 (2019) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Nelson Street, Ryde 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 50 | 43.1% | £61,950 | £20,500 – £207,500 |
| Terraced | 37 | 31.9% | £117,000 | £25,000 – £370,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 14.7% | £170,000 | £52,500 – £620,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 10.3% | £80,000 | £23,000 – £220,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Nelson Street, Ryde
99 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17 freehold — 85.3% 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 £79,950 and the median freehold sale £122,000 — a gap of +52.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 99 | 85.3% | £79,950 |
| Freehold | 17 | 14.7% | £122,000 |
A further 8 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 Nelson Street, 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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 369 | 0.5% |
| B | 7,579 | 9.5% |
| C | 25,233 | 31.6% |
| D | 27,750 | 34.8% |
| E | 13,090 | 16.4% |
| F | 4,268 | 5.3% |
| G | 1,507 | 1.9% |
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 £84,520 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.46% 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 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 Nelson Street, 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lift Ryde | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,461 |
| Haylands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 357 |
| Greenmount Primary School | Primary | Community school | 280 |
| Wootton Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 205 |
| Dover Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 204 |
| Binstead Primary School | Primary | Community school | 202 |
| Oakfield Church of England Aided Primary School, Ryde | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 185 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 182 |
| St Helens Primary School | Primary | Community school | 96 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ryde Esplanade Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Ryde Hoverport | Ferry | 1.5 km |
| Smallbrook Junction (Isle of Wight Steam Railway | Tram | 1.6 km |
| Smallbrook Junction (Isle of Wight Steam Railway | Metro or underground | 1.6 km |
Section 09
How Nelson Street, Ryde compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Nelson Street, Ryde sits below that national figure — -46.3%.
Within Ryde the street ranks 371 of 401 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,000 (-37.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,000 per square metre, across 31 of the 116 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 £20,500 to £620,000. 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.
Nelson 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- FLAT 2, 11 Nelson Street6 sales
- 44 Nelson Street5 sales
- FLAT A, 30 Nelson Street5 sales
- 29 Nelson Street4 sales
- 39 Nelson Street4 sales
- FLAT C, 30 Nelson Street4 sales
- 34 Nelson Street3 sales
- 9 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT D, 30 Nelson Street3 sales
- 38 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT 5, 5 Nelson Street3 sales
- 2 Nelson Street3 sales
- 43 Nelson Street3 sales
- 8 Nelson Street3 sales
- 6 Nelson Street3 sales
- 27 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT 4, 5 Nelson Street3 sales
- 13 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT 1, 5 Nelson Street3 sales
- 20 Nelson Street3 sales
- 1 Nelson Street3 sales
- 3 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT 3, 5 Nelson Street3 sales
- FLAT 3, 11 Nelson Street2 sales
Back to Ryde house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Nelson Street, Ryde?
The median price paid in Nelson Street, Ryde across every sale on the register is £84,520. 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 Nelson Street, Ryde?
116 sales are on record for Nelson Street, Ryde, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Nelson Street, Ryde house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +290.4% between 1997 and 2005. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +235.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Nelson Street, Ryde house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £167,875, set in 2005. 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 Nelson Street, Ryde?
£1,000 per square metre, from the 31 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 23 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, “Nelson 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.