Laurel Drive, Southam house prices are built from 96 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 11 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £176,000. Across the 10 years from 1996 to 2006 the median moved +177.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +127.9%.
Median price paid
£176,000
Change in cash, 1996–2006
+177.7%
Change in real terms
+127.9%
HM Land Registry96 salesLatest sale 11 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Laurel Drive, Southam prices moved
The chart tracks the median Laurel Drive, Southam house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2006. 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 | 3 | £89,998 | £199,837 |
| 2000s | 1 | £249,950 | £455,335 |
The highest yearly median on record for Laurel Drive, Southam is £249,950 in 2006; the lowest is £86,000 in 1995. Across the full 12-year record the cash median has moved from £86,000 to £249,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £190,961, so the real change over the whole record is +133.0% — about +7.99% 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: +177.7% in cash against +127.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 11 Aug 2025 | Detached | £387,000 | £395,413 |
| 4 | 14 Mar 2025 | Detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| 30 | 11 Oct 2024 | Detached | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 8 | 19 Aug 2022 | Detached | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| 31 | 29 Apr 2022 | Detached | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 23 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 15 | 16 Jun 2021 | Detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 9 | 27 Jun 2018 | Detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
| 22 | 20 Jun 2018 | Detached | £432,000 | £575,728 |
| 1 | 2 May 2018 | Detached | £381,000 | £507,760 |
| 12 | 19 Dec 2017 | Detached | £365,000 | £496,766 |
| 27 | 16 May 2017 | Detached | £325,000 | £442,326 |
| 21 | 7 Sep 2016 | Detached | £325,000 | £453,713 |
| 33 | 18 Jul 2016 | Detached | £338,000 | £471,861 |
| 7 | 15 Jul 2016 | Terraced | £100,000 | £139,604 |
| 15 | 2 Jun 2016 | Detached | £345,000 | £481,634 |
| 25 | 27 Nov 2015 | Detached | £329,950 | £465,230 |
| 24 | 21 Oct 2015 | Detached | £313,000 | £441,330 |
| 30 | 31 Jul 2015 | Detached | £378,750 | £534,038 |
| 26 | 18 Jul 2014 | Detached | £340,000 | £487,691 |
| 27 | 22 Nov 2013 | Detached | £240,000 | £349,948 |
| 9 | 25 Oct 2013 | Detached | £250,000 | £364,529 |
| 34 | 17 May 2013 | Detached | £267,000 | £389,317 |
| 25 | 26 Mar 2013 | Detached | £264,000 | £384,943 |
| 8 | 9 Nov 2012 | Detached | £295,000 | £440,625 |
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 Laurel Drive, Southam values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Laurel Drive | £85,000 (1996) | £387,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 4 Laurel Drive | £86,500 (1996) | £405,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 30 Laurel Drive | £95,500 (1995) | £500,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 8 Laurel Drive | £95,500 (1996) | £450,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 31 Laurel Drive | £85,000 (1995) | £400,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.4% |
| 23 Laurel Drive | £86,995 (1995) | £350,000 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 15 Laurel Drive | £89,500 (1996) | £360,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.5% |
| 22 Laurel Drive | £112,500 (1995) | £432,000 (2018) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 1 Laurel Drive | £90,000 (1996) | £381,000 (2018) | +6.8% | +4.4% |
| 12 Laurel Drive | £90,500 (1996) | £365,000 (2017) | +6.9% | +4.5% |
| 27 Laurel Drive | £86,000 (1995) | £325,000 (2017) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 21 Laurel Drive | £81,500 (1995) | £325,000 (2016) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Laurel Drive, Southam 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 | 93 | 96.9% | £200,500 | £81,000 – £500,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 2.1% | £52,500 | £52,500 – £100,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 1.0% | £47,904 | £47,904 – £47,904 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Laurel Drive, Southam
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 3.1% 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 £52,500 and the median freehold sale £200,500 — a gap of +281.9%. 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 | 3 | 3.1% | £52,500 |
| Freehold | 93 | 96.9% | £200,500 |
| New build | 32 | 33.3% | £87,500 |
| Existing home | 64 | 66.7% | £249,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -65.0%. 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 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 Laurel Drive, Southam
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Rugby, 51.3% of 54,062 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 586 | 1.1% |
| B | 10,346 | 19.1% |
| C | 16,791 | 31.1% |
| D | 18,096 | 33.5% |
| E | 6,327 | 11.7% |
| F | 1,524 | 2.8% |
| G | 392 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Rugby at £1,042 a month as of Jun 2026 — £750 for a one-bedroom home and £1,115 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £176,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.10% 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 CV47, 13 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 12.8 times quieter.
Against the 114,363 residents the 2021 census counted in Rugby, that is 0.11 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 Laurel Drive, Southam
The 2021 census counted 114,363 residents in Rugby across 47,015 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 30.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a CV47 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southam College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,637 |
| Southam Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 412 |
| Bishops Itchington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| St Lawrence CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| Long Itchington CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Southam | Primary | Academy converter | 150 |
| Southam St James CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 149 |
| Stockton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 149 |
| Temple Herdewyke Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 107 |
| The Dassett CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 102 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leamington Spa Rail Station | Rail | 11.6 km |
| Warwick Rail Station | Rail | 14.5 km |
| Warwick Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 16.4 km |
| Kenilworth Rail Station | Rail | 17.5 km |
Section 09
How Laurel Drive, Southam compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Laurel Drive, Southam sits above that national figure — +11.7%.
Within Southam the street ranks 232 of 328 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £208,000 (-15.4%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £47,904 to £500,000. 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.
Laurel Drive, Southam sits in Rugby, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Rugby at 6.9 times median local earnings of £42,966 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
- Flying Fields Road£154,000 median
- Banbury Road£144,500 median
- High Street£220,000 median
- Barkus Close£146,000 median
- Pound Way£129,000 median
- The Furrows£102,500 median
- Stowe Drive£188,250 median
- The Model Village£154,000 median
- St Wulstan Way£156,000 median
- Millholme Close£218,000 median
- Meldrum Court£127,975 median
- Dale Close£164,995 median
- Warwick Road£299,950 median
- Spitfire Road£314,995 median
- Chapel Street£180,250 median
- Hampden Court£125,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 9 Laurel Drive6 sales
- 30 Laurel Drive5 sales
- 23 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 15 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 1 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 27 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 21 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 25 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 34 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 20 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 17 Laurel Drive4 sales
- 8 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 31 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 12 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 24 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 28 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 11 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 35 Laurel Drive3 sales
- 4 Laurel Drive2 sales
- 22 Laurel Drive2 sales
- 33 Laurel Drive2 sales
- 7 Laurel Drive2 sales
- 26 Laurel Drive2 sales
- 18 Laurel Drive2 sales
Back to Southam house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Laurel Drive, Southam?
The median price paid in Laurel Drive, Southam across every sale on the register is £176,000. 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 Laurel Drive, Southam?
96 sales are on record for Laurel Drive, Southam, the most recent completing on 11 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Laurel Drive, Southam house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +177.7% between 1996 and 2006. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +127.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Laurel Drive, Southam house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £249,950, set in 2006. 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 Laurel Drive, Southam?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 11 Aug 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, “Laurel Drive, Southam 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.