That is the middle of 1,523 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,523 homes sold in three years: 718 detached houses, 450 semi-detached houses, 286 terraced houses and 69 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£247K
median sale · 718 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£293K
Last 12 months
£246K184 sold
New build
£295K
Semi-detached houses£163K
median sale · 450 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£143K–£188K
Last 12 months
£160K128 sold
New build
£185K
Terraced houses£125K
median sale · 286 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£102K–£152K
Last 12 months
£128K71 sold
New build
£159K
Flats and maisonettes£86K
median sale · 69 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£74K–£100K
Last 12 months
£89K18 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses47%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses19%
Flats and maisonettes5%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Boston’s homes sold for between £140K and £245K
One sale in ten was under £106K and one in ten over £300K. 76% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £185,000, sits in the £150–200K band
1,523 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £37,000 in 1995 to £179,000 in the last 12 months (£155,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
401 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,242 in 2002, the busiest year, and 464 in 2012. Sales fell by 58% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 71% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Boston costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Boston, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£52K
£68K
£160K
£150K
£170K
£204K
£246K
Semi-detached houses
£38K
£44K
£105K
£110K
£123K
£144K
£160K
Terraced houses
£28K
£34K
£87K
£84K
£105K
£110K
£128K
Flats and maisonettes
£26K
£28K
£75K
£71K
£89K
£85K
£89K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 2% of sales in the last 12 months
2,830 new homes have been sold in Boston since 1995; the share peaked at 20% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £229,950
against £180,000 for a home sold on, 28% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
6% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Boston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Copper Gardens is Boston’s busiest street, with 61 sales in three years
120 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 31 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Copper Gardens
PE21
61
£279,950
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Hawthorn Close
PE21
33
£185,245
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
3
Wyberton Low Road
PE21
22
£186,000
Mixed
4
London Road
PE21
21
£250,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Fishtoft Road
PE21
21
£170,000
Mixed
6
Sleaford Road
PE21
18
£284,500
Mostly detached houses
7
Eastwood Road
PE21
18
£221,500
Mostly detached houses
8
Tattershall Road
PE21
16
£215,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Wyberton West Road
PE21
15
£125,000
Mixed
10
Kingsway
PE21
14
£190,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Eton Way
PE21
14
£182,500
Mixed
12
Princess Anne Road
PE21
13
£197,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Jones Court
PE21
13
£160,965
Mixed
14
Ashton Hall Drive
PE21
12
£339,250
Mostly detached houses
15
West End Road
PE21
12
£270,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Spilsby Road: £355,000
Boston median£185K
Spilsby Road£355K
Ashton Hall Drive£339K
Pilleys Lane£327K
Tytton Lane East£300K
Saddlers Way£298K
Cheapest streets
Freiston Terrace: £85,000
Boston median£185K
Freiston Terrace£85K
Willoughby Road£88K
Sutton Terrace£90K
St Thomas Drive£90K
Pulvertoft Lane£90K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.2 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Lincolnshire
Boston is the 52nd most expensive of 64 towns in Lincolnshire
Boston is one of Lincolnshire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Boston
What is the average house price in Boston?
The median home in Boston sold for £185,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,523 standard sales (£179,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £246,997, semi-detached houses £162,771, terraced houses £125,000 and flats and maisonettes £86,250.
Are house prices going up in Boston?
The median was £189,950 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£185,250), and £179,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Boston each year?
401 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 616 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Boston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Spilsby Road (PE21, £355,000), Ashton Hall Drive (PE21, £339,250) and Pilleys Lane (PE21, £326,625).
How much does a new build cost in Boston?
New homes sold for a median £229,950 over three years, against £180,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 7.2% of sales.
Is Boston expensive for Lincolnshire?
Boston is the 52nd most expensive of 64 towns of 2,500 or more in Lincolnshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.