The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea house prices

The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea house prices are built from 44 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2014 and the most recent on 25 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £276,250.

HM Land Registry44 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Sep 2024

There are too few years of sales in The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

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 The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

35 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9 freehold — 79.5% 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 £315,000 and the median freehold sale £200,000 — a gap of -36.5%. 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 — -53.3%. 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 9 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. The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea sits above that national figure — +75.4%.

Within Wells-next-the-sea the street ranks 22 of 79 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £249,000 (+10.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,075 per square metre, across 5 of the 44 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 £47,000 to £915,000. 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 nearby

• Wells Road£230,000 median
• High Street£268,000 median
• Freeman Street£205,000 median
• Ashburton Close£369,995 median
• Waveney Close£202,500 median
• Mill Road£210,000 median
• The Buttlands£242,000 median
• Church Street£255,000 median
• Mill Court£205,000 median
• Northfield Lane£249,950 median
• Mainsail Yard£342,000 median
• Park Road£196,500 median
• Chapel Yard£228,751 median
• East End£232,500 median
• Staithe Street£204,000 median
• Home Piece Road£510,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• CRAB COTTAGE 17, the GRANARY the Quay4 sales
• 10, QUAYSIDE COURT the Quay3 sales
• FLAT 3, the GRANARY the Quay3 sales
• FLAT 7, the GRANARY the Quay3 sales
• FLAT 1, QUAYSIDE COURT the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 5, QUAYSIDE COURT the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 11, the GRANARY the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 1, the GRANARY the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 6A, the GRANARY the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 16, the GRANARY the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 4, QUAYSIDE COURT the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 2, PAULS MALTINGS the Quay2 sales
• FLAT 1, PAULS MALTINGS the Quay2 sales

Back to Wells-next-the-sea house prices.

What is the average house price in The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea?

The median price paid in The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea across every sale on the register is £276,250. 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 The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea?

44 sales are on record for The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea, the most recent completing on 25 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £362,500, set in 2014. 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 The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea?

£4,075 per square metre, from the 5 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 25 Sep 2024. 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, “The Quay, Wells-next-the-sea 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.