Lower Street, Sudbury house prices are built from 103 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 1 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £205,000. Across the 14 years from 2004 to 2018 the median moved +181.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +102.0%.
Median price paid
£205,000
Change in cash, 2004–2018
+181.3%
Change in real terms
+102.0%
Median per m²
£1,523
HM Land Registry103 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Lower Street, Sudbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Street, Sudbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2018. 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 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 3 | £142,500 | £259,593 |
| 2010s | 4 | £377,000 | £531,570 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Street, Sudbury is £443,000 in 2018; the lowest is £60,000 in 1998. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £443,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £124,412, so the real change over the whole record is +374.5% — about +8.10% 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: +181.3% in cash against +102.0% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £467,500 | £477,663 |
| Tivoli Cottage | 7 Feb 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| The Bungalow | 21 Jan 2025 | Detached | £390,000 | £398,478 |
| 3 Bridge Cottage | 4 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £151,000 | £158,888 |
| Brambles | 3 Jun 2024 | Detached | £830,000 | £873,358 |
| The Cottage | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| Rio | 24 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 1 Norman Cottage | 9 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £165,400 | £208,973 |
| 4 Bridge Cottage | 22 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £188,000 | £237,527 |
| 5 Bridge Cottage | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| Merton Barn | 29 Jan 2021 | Detached | £650,000 | £821,237 |
| Nevarmo | 20 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 2 Bridge Cottage | 16 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £176,000 | £230,204 |
| Green Gables | 26 Jun 2019 | Detached | £325,000 | £425,093 |
| The Walnut Tree | 24 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £205,000 | £268,135 |
| Rose Cottage | 22 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £259,000 | £338,766 |
| 25 | 1 Aug 2018 | Detached | £305,000 | £406,474 |
| Chestnut Cottage | 24 Jul 2018 | Detached | £443,000 | £590,388 |
| Katrina | 7 Mar 2018 | Detached | £485,000 | £646,361 |
| Kildene | 19 Jan 2018 | Detached | £390,000 | £519,754 |
| Field View | 12 Jan 2018 | Detached | £475,000 | £633,034 |
| 1 | 17 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £220,000 | £299,421 |
| School House | 20 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £449,131 |
| Wayside | 29 Sep 2017 | Detached | £424,000 | £577,066 |
| 4 | 6 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £207,500 | £282,408 |
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 Lower Street, Sudbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIO Lower Street | £475,000 (2022) | £467,500 (2025) | -0.5% | -4.6% |
| 3 BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street | £100,000 (2004) | £151,000 (2024) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| BRAMBLES Lower Street | £590,000 (2017) | £830,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +1.2% |
| THE COTTAGE Lower Street | £124,500 (1999) | £220,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.4% |
| 1 NORMAN COTTAGE Lower Street | £140,000 (2004) | £165,400 (2021) | +1.0% | -1.3% |
| 4 BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street | £52,500 (2000) | £188,000 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 5 BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street | £55,000 (1998) | £155,000 (2021) | +4.6% | +2.4% |
| MERTON BARN Lower Street | £147,000 (1996) | £650,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.9% |
| NEVARMO Lower Street | £247,525 (2007) | £325,000 (2020) | +2.1% | -0.2% |
| THE WALNUT TREE Lower Street | £163,000 (2014) | £205,000 (2019) | +4.7% | +2.8% |
| CHESTNUT COTTAGE Lower Street | £118,500 (1998) | £443,000 (2018) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| FIELD VIEW Lower Street | £103,000 (1997) | £475,000 (2018) | +7.6% | +5.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Street, Sudbury 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 | 41 | 39.8% | £335,000 | £40,000 – £830,000 |
| Terraced | 31 | 30.1% | £145,000 | £40,000 – £316,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 30.1% | £205,000 | £33,000 – £705,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Street, Sudbury
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 103 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 103 | 100.0% | £205,000 |
A further 5 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 Lower Street, Sudbury
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Babergh, 43.0% of 43,823 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 389 | 0.9% |
| B | 6,268 | 14.3% |
| C | 12,181 | 27.8% |
| D | 14,574 | 33.3% |
| E | 7,180 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,592 | 5.9% |
| G | 639 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Babergh at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £720 for a one-bedroom home and £1,116 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £205,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.68% 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 CO10, 26 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 8 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.4 times quieter.
Against the 92,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Babergh, that is 0.28 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 Lower Street, Sudbury
The 2021 census counted 92,341 residents in Babergh across 40,200 households. 71.8% of those households own their home and 28.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
20 state and independent schools have a CO10 postcode: 17 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Gainsborough School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,603 |
| Ormiston Sudbury Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 710 |
| Stour Valley Community School | Secondary | Free schools | 569 |
| Wells Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 494 |
| Woodhall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 448 |
| Tudor Church of England Primary School, Sudbury | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 268 |
| Glemsford Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 243 |
| Pot Kiln Primary School | Primary | Community school | 236 |
| St Gregory Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 227 |
| Long Melford Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Bures Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Chappel & Wakes Colne Rail Station | Rail | 15.0 km |
| Marks Tey Rail Station | Rail | 20.2 km |
Section 09
How Lower Street, Sudbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Street, Sudbury sits above that national figure — +30.2%.
Within Sudbury the street ranks 374 of 764 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £183,000 (+12.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,523 per square metre, across 2 of the 103 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 £33,000 to £830,000. 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.
Lower Street, Sudbury sits in Babergh, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Babergh at 10.6 times median local earnings of £30,929 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
- The Street£242,500 median
- High Street£233,250 median
- Melford Road£205,000 median
- Lucas Road£68,500 median
- Bures Road£232,000 median
- Talbot Road£119,995 median
- Kings Road£118,000 median
- Waldingfield Road£185,000 median
- Church Street£182,500 median
- Mallard Way£75,500 median
- Hall Street£242,500 median
- Clermont Avenue£219,995 median
- Church Road£250,000 median
- Egremont Street£124,000 median
- Ballingdon Street£151,000 median
- Queens Road£171,838 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 4, BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street5 sales
- CLOGG VILLA Lower Street5 sales
- 3, BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street4 sales
- THE COTTAGE Lower Street4 sales
- FIELD VIEW Lower Street4 sales
- IVY HOUSE Lower Street4 sales
- BROADLANDS Lower Street4 sales
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE Lower Street3 sales
- WHITE HORSE COTTAGE Lower Street3 sales
- RAWHIDE Lower Street3 sales
- BRIDGE HOUSE Lower Street3 sales
- 3 Lower Street3 sales
- RIO Lower Street2 sales
- BRAMBLES Lower Street2 sales
- 1, NORMAN COTTAGE Lower Street2 sales
- 5, BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street2 sales
- MERTON BARN Lower Street2 sales
- NEVARMO Lower Street2 sales
- THE WALNUT TREE Lower Street2 sales
- SCHOOL HOUSE Lower Street2 sales
- 4 Lower Street2 sales
- OAK COTTAGE Lower Street2 sales
- 1, BRIDGE COTTAGE Lower Street2 sales
- SPARROWS HALL FARM Lower Street2 sales
Back to Sudbury house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Street, Sudbury?
The median price paid in Lower Street, Sudbury across every sale on the register is £205,000. 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 Lower Street, Sudbury?
103 sales are on record for Lower Street, Sudbury, the most recent completing on 1 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Street, Sudbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +181.3% between 2004 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +102.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Street, Sudbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £443,000, set in 2018. 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 Lower Street, Sudbury?
£1,523 per square metre, from the 2 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 1 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, “Lower Street, Sudbury 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.