That is the middle of 74 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 4.9 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.
Two thirds of Hightown’s sales are detached houses
74 homes sold in three years: 50 detached houses, 21 semi-detached houses and 3 terraced houses.
Detached houses£404K
median sale · 50 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£530K
Last 12 months
£468K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£275K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£258K–£320K
Last 12 months
£275K7 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: two thirds of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses68%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses4%
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 Hightown’s homes sold for between £275K and £468K
One sale in ten was under £258K and one in ten over £600K. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £340,000, sits in the £300–400K band
74 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £70,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in the last 12 months (£252,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
19 sales in the last 12 months, against 55 in 2017, the busiest year, and 12 in 2008. Sales fell by 58% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hightown costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hightown, 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
£80K
£105K
£250K
£228K
£220K
£282K
£468K
Semi-detached houses
£64K
£85K
—
—
£182K
£230K
£275K
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: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
10 new homes have been sold in Hightown since 1995; the share peaked at 16% in 2001.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
30% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 30% sold leasehold in Hightown. 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
Mark Road is Hightown’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Mark Road
L38
14
£275,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Blundell Road
L38
10
£480,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Thornbeck Avenue
L38
5
£310,000
Mostly detached houses
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.
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 Hightown
What is the average house price in Hightown?
The median home in Hightown sold for £340,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 74 standard sales (£340,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £404,000 and semi-detached houses £275,000.
Are house prices going up in Hightown?
The median was £335,000 in 2025, down 18% on 2024 (£411,000), and £340,000 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 Hightown each year?
19 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 34 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.