Grove Road, Sandown house prices are built from 105 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 31 Jan 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £173,500. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +26.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.7%.
Median price paid
£173,500
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+26.5%
Change in real terms
-15.7%
Median per m²
£1,296
HM Land Registry105 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Jan 2025
Section 01
How Grove Road, Sandown prices moved
The chart tracks the median Grove Road, Sandown house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 | £59,995 | £133,217 |
| 2000s | 3 | £237,000 | £431,744 |
| 2010s | 2 | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 2020s | 1 | £310,000 | £316,739 |
The highest yearly median on record for Grove Road, Sandown is £330,000 in 2016; the lowest is £59,995 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £59,995 to £310,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £127,207, so the real change over the whole record is +182.3% — about +4.24% 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: +26.5% in cash against -15.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 18a | 24 May 2024 | Detached | £395,000 | £415,634 |
| 5 | 8 Sep 2023 | Detached | £392,000 | £423,540 |
| 37a | 4 Aug 2023 | Detached | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| 77 | 22 May 2023 | Detached | £495,000 | £534,828 |
| 18 | 13 Dec 2022 | Detached | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| Flat 4 55 | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £177,000 | £205,070 |
| 61 | 16 Aug 2022 | Detached | £465,000 | £538,743 |
| 40 | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 3 | 1 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £422,884 |
| 45 | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| Flat 2 30 | 29 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £173,500 | £219,207 |
| 49a | 26 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £172,500 | £217,944 |
| 43a | 20 Nov 2020 | Detached | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 10 | 20 Oct 2020 | Detached | £235,000 | £304,270 |
| 4 | 15 Feb 2019 | Detached | £299,950 | £392,328 |
| 45 | 24 Oct 2018 | Detached | £283,400 | £377,688 |
| 3 | 19 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 49a | 5 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £119,000 | £158,592 |
| 49 | 13 Dec 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £194,624 |
| 21 | 26 Jun 2017 | Detached | £249,950 | £340,183 |
| 41 | 25 Nov 2016 | Detached | £450,000 | £628,218 |
| 67 | 1 Sep 2016 | Detached | £330,000 | £460,693 |
| 75 | 10 Jun 2016 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £467,673 |
| 43 | 19 May 2016 | Detached | £266,000 | £371,347 |
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 Grove Road, Sandown values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Grove Road | £125,000 (2002) | £330,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 18A Grove Road | £99,000 (1999) | £395,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 5 Grove Road | £74,000 (1997) | £392,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 77 Grove Road | £168,500 (2002) | £495,000 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
| 18 Grove Road | £177,500 (2015) | £310,000 (2022) | +8.3% | +5.3% |
| FLAT 4 55 Grove Road | £41,000 (2000) | £177,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.3% |
| 61 Grove Road | £250,000 (2012) | £465,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 40 Grove Road | £170,000 (2007) | £255,000 (2022) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 3 Grove Road | £225,000 (2015) | £365,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.2% |
| 45 Grove Road | £200,000 (2011) | £320,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.8% |
| 49A Grove Road | £29,000 (1997) | £172,500 (2021) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 10 Grove Road | £91,000 (2001) | £235,000 (2020) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Grove Road, Sandown 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 | 54 | 51.4% | £237,500 | £58,000 – £495,000 |
| Semi-detached | 27 | 25.7% | £168,500 | £54,000 – £365,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22 | 21.0% | £106,500 | £20,000 – £177,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.9% | £145,000 | £145,000 – £255,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Grove Road, Sandown
32 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 30.5% 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 £128,750 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +70.9%. 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 | 32 | 30.5% | £128,750 |
| Freehold | 73 | 69.5% | £220,000 |
A further 3 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 Grove Road, Sandown
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 £173,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.56% 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 PO36, 108 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 42 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 140,459 residents the 2021 census counted in Isle of Wight, that is 0.77 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 Grove Road, Sandown
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.
4 state and independent schools have a PO36 postcode: 3 primary, 1 all-through. 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 Bay Church of England School | All-through | Voluntary controlled school | 1,232 |
| Broadlea Primary School | Primary | Community school | 242 |
| Newchurch Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Brading Church of England Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 96 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sandown Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Lake (Isle of Wight) Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Brading Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Shanklin Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
Section 09
How Grove Road, Sandown compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Grove Road, Sandown sits above that national figure — +10.2%.
Within Sandown the street ranks 88 of 230 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £141,000 (+23.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,296 per square metre, across 30 of the 105 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 £20,000 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.
Grove Road, Sandown 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
- Sandown Road£95,000 median
- Perowne Way£136,000 median
- Broadway£125,000 median
- New Road£152,000 median
- Station Avenue£134,500 median
- Newport Road£145,000 median
- High Street£121,250 median
- Fitzroy Street£124,500 median
- Avenue Road£114,000 median
- Culver Way£229,000 median
- Jeals Lane£114,500 median
- Forest Way£91,500 median
- Alverstone Road£250,000 median
- Carter Street£160,000 median
- St Johns Road£130,000 median
- Fairfield Gardens£166,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 49A Grove Road6 sales
- 67 Grove Road5 sales
- 49 Grove Road4 sales
- 6 Grove Road3 sales
- 18A Grove Road3 sales
- 77 Grove Road3 sales
- 40 Grove Road3 sales
- 3 Grove Road3 sales
- 45 Grove Road3 sales
- 11 Grove Road3 sales
- 59 Grove Road3 sales
- 1A Grove Road3 sales
- 53 Grove Road3 sales
- 36 Grove Road3 sales
- 5 Grove Road2 sales
- 18 Grove Road2 sales
- FLAT 4, 55 Grove Road2 sales
- 61 Grove Road2 sales
- 10 Grove Road2 sales
- 4 Grove Road2 sales
- 21 Grove Road2 sales
- 41 Grove Road2 sales
- 43 Grove Road2 sales
- 2 Grove Road2 sales
Back to Sandown house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Grove Road, Sandown?
The median price paid in Grove Road, Sandown across every sale on the register is £173,500. 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 Grove Road, Sandown?
105 sales are on record for Grove Road, Sandown, the most recent completing on 31 Jan 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Grove Road, Sandown house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.5% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Grove Road, Sandown house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £330,000, set in 2016. 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 Grove Road, Sandown?
£1,296 per square metre, from the 30 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 31 Jan 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, “Grove Road, Sandown 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.