Sold Price History


Lark Avenue, Staines house prices

Lark Avenue, Staines house prices are built from 70 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 3 Sep 2012. The median price paid across the whole record is £166,750. Across the 9 years from 1997 to 2006 the median moved +150.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +110.0%.

Median price paid

£166,750

Change in cash, 1997–2006

+150.2%

Change in real terms

+110.0%

Median per m²

£2,411

HM Land Registry70 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Sep 2012

Section 01

How Lark Avenue, Staines prices moved

The chart tracks the median Lark Avenue, Staines house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.

Lark Avenue, Staines house prices by year, median price paid 1997 to 2006
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s2£78,450£174,196
2000s4£179,000£326,085
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Lark Avenue, Staines is £205,000 in 2001; the lowest is £78,450 in 1997. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £78,450 to £196,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,338, so the real change over the whole record is +110.0% — about +8.60% 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: +150.2% in cash against +110.0% 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.

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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
113 Sep 2012Flat or maisonette£195,000£291,261
309 Sep 2011Flat or maisonette£202,000£309,587
811 Aug 2011Detached£330,000£505,761
622 Oct 2010Terraced£320,000£510,985
3417 Sep 2010Semi-detached£210,000£335,334
3218 May 2010Flat or maisonette£193,500£308,986
244 Sep 2009Flat or maisonette£178,500£293,339
5328 May 2008Flat or maisonette£239,950£402,773
3711 Oct 2007Flat or maisonette£238,000£413,785
312 Jul 2007Terraced£322,500£560,697
3419 Dec 2006Semi-detached£197,500£351,610
4911 Jul 2006Flat or maisonette£195,000£347,159
729 Jun 2006Terraced£273,000£486,023
115 Jun 2006Semi-detached£280,000£498,485
231 Mar 2006Terraced£323,200£575,394
5324 Feb 2006Flat or maisonette£189,250£336,922
1921 Feb 2006Flat or maisonette£177,000£315,114
4713 Jan 2006Terraced£176,000£313,333
3230 Sep 2005Flat or maisonette£154,000£280,543
254 Mar 2005Flat or maisonette£195,000£355,233
334 Mar 2005Flat or maisonette£185,000£337,016
1414 Jun 2004Terraced£180,000£333,947
5329 Apr 2004Flat or maisonette£188,500£349,717
1926 Mar 2004Flat or maisonette£165,000£306,118
316 Feb 2004Flat or maisonette£179,000£332,092
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Lark Avenue, Staines values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
11 Lark Avenue£58,000 (1996)£195,000 (2012)+7.9%+5.4%
30 Lark Avenue£92,500 (1998)£202,000 (2011)+6.2%+3.8%
8 Lark Avenue£119,000 (1997)£330,000 (2011)+7.6%+5.1%
6 Lark Avenue£155,000 (1999)£320,000 (2010)+6.8%+4.5%
34 Lark Avenue£60,000 (1995)£210,000 (2010)+8.7%+6.3%
32 Lark Avenue£154,000 (2005)£193,500 (2010)+4.7%+2.0%
24 Lark Avenue£135,000 (2001)£178,500 (2009)+3.6%+1.3%
53 Lark Avenue£188,500 (2004)£239,950 (2008)+6.2%+3.6%
37 Lark Avenue£89,950 (1998)£238,000 (2007)+11.4%+9.3%
3 Lark Avenue£249,950 (2002)£322,500 (2007)+5.2%+3.1%
49 Lark Avenue£63,000 (1995)£195,000 (2006)+10.8%+8.6%
7 Lark Avenue£104,000 (1995)£273,000 (2006)+9.2%+7.0%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette4970.0%£154,000£55,000 – £239,950
Terraced1014.3%£205,000£104,000 – £323,200
Semi-detached811.4%£175,950£60,000 – £280,000
Detached34.3%£212,500£119,000 – £330,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Lark Avenue, Staines

55 of the sales on record are leasehold and 15 freehold — 78.6% 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 £154,950 and the median freehold sale £212,500 — a gap of +37.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold5578.6%£154,950
Freehold1521.4%£212,500
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

Section 07

Living in Lark Avenue, Staines

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Runnymede, 47.2% of 42,982 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A1940.5%
B6,36814.8%
C13,74132.0%
D14,87834.6%
E5,96413.9%
F1,4223.3%
G4151.0%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Runnymede.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Runnymede at £1,576 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,077 for a one-bedroom home and £1,662 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £166,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.34% 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 TW18, 264 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 79 violent, 5 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 63 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.

Against the 88,079 residents the 2021 census counted in Runnymede, that is 3.00 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 Lark Avenue, Staines

The 2021 census counted 88,079 residents in Runnymede across 34,838 households. 67.9% of those households own their home and 32.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

7 state and independent schools have a TW18 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
The Magna Carta SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,042
The Matthew Arnold SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter947
Riverbridge Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter687
Hythe Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school444
Laleham CofE VA Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school406
Buckland Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school399
Our Lady of the Rosary Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter236
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Staines Rail StationRail0.5 km
Ashford (Surrey) Rail StationRail2.7 km
Egham Rail StationRail2.9 km
Wraysbury Rail StationRail4.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Lark Avenue, Staines compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lark Avenue, Staines sits above that national figure — +5.9%.

Within Staines the street ranks 224 of 379 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £172,500 (-3.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,411 per square metre, across 25 of the 70 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 £55,000 to £330,000. 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.

Lark Avenue, Staines sits in Runnymede, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Runnymede at 9.8 times median local earnings of £46,455 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Staines house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Lark Avenue, Staines?

The median price paid in Lark Avenue, Staines across every sale on the register is £166,750. 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 Lark Avenue, Staines?

70 sales are on record for Lark Avenue, Staines, the most recent completing on 3 Sep 2012. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lark Avenue, Staines house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +150.2% between 1997 and 2006. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +110.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lark Avenue, Staines house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £205,000, set in 2001. 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 Lark Avenue, Staines?

£2,411 per square metre, from the 25 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 3 Sep 2012. 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, “Lark Avenue, Staines 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.