Skegness house prices

Skegness house prices are built from 18,831 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £114,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +38.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.0%.

HM Land Registry18,831 sales2,520 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Skegness house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 Skegness is £195,000 in 2022; the lowest is £42,250 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,625 to £190,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,648, so the real change over the whole record is +100.7% — about +2.27% 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: +38.2% in cash against -1.0% 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 Skegness values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,260 certificates cover Skegness, and their median floor area is 72 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

1,721 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17,110 freehold — 9.1% 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 £60,000 and the median freehold sale £120,000 — a gap of +100.0%. 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 — -13.1%. 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 1,465 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Skegness sits below that national figure — -27.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,397 per square metre, across 2,520 of the 18,831 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 £3,500 to £1,035,000. 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.

Streets in Skegness

• Roman Bank380 sales
• Sea Road334 sales
• Drummond Road324 sales
• Wainfleet Road311 sales
• Burgh Road265 sales
• Church Lane237 sales
• High Street225 sales
• Sunningdale Drive198 sales
• Richmond Drive175 sales
• Beacon Park Drive169 sales
• Park Avenue158 sales
• Hoylake Drive155 sales
• Sunningdale Close153 sales
• Skegness Road152 sales
• Wilton Avenue145 sales
• Beresford Avenue142 sales
• Winston Drive141 sales
• Lincoln Road140 sales
• Station Road139 sales
• Beacon Way133 sales
• St Leonards Drive127 sales
• St Andrews Drive125 sales
• Grosvenor Road121 sales
• Croft Lane112 sales
• Firbeck Avenue110 sales
• Gleneagles Drive107 sales
• Queens Road107 sales
• Cavendish Road104 sales
• Well Vale Drive103 sales
• Alexandra Road100 sales
• George Avenue100 sales
• Stones Close99 sales
• Laythorpe Avenue95 sales
• South Road94 sales
• Spilsby Road93 sales
• Buckingham Drive92 sales
• Lumley Crescent92 sales
• Holland Drive90 sales
• Ancaster Avenue88 sales
• Castleton Boulevard88 sales
• Acacia Avenue86 sales
• Lumley Avenue86 sales
• Kingsthorpe Crescent85 sales
• Mill Lane85 sales
• Sea View Road84 sales
• Landseer Avenue83 sales
• Martin Way83 sales
• Brunswick Drive82 sales
• Beaumont Close81 sales
• Ramsay Close81 sales
• Church Road North79 sales
• Churchill Avenue79 sales
• Scarbrough Avenue79 sales
• Chapman Avenue78 sales
• Warwick Road77 sales
• Sutton Court75 sales
• Elm Crescent74 sales
• Holden Drive74 sales
• St Michaels Lane74 sales
• Thames Street74 sales

Postcode districts covering Skegness

• PE25£111,500 median
• PE24£116,000 median

What is the average house price in Skegness?

The median price paid in Skegness across every sale on the register is £114,000. 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 Skegness?

18,831 sales are on record for Skegness, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Skegness house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +38.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Skegness house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £195,000, set in 2022. 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 Skegness?

£1,397 per square metre, from the 2,520 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 19 Jun 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, “Skegness 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.