That is the middle of 80 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 6.1 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.
80 homes sold in three years: 34 detached houses, 24 semi-detached houses, 18 terraced houses and 4 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£424K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£600K
Last 12 months
£559K9 sold
Semi-detached houses£275K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£335K
Last 12 months
£308K10 sold
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£206K–£287K
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 4 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 43% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses43%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses23%
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 Melton’s homes sold for between £263K and £468K
One sale in ten was under £215K and one in ten over £665K. 18% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £307,500, sits in the £300–400K band
80 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £51,750 in 1995 to £315,000 in the last 12 months (£287,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
24 sales in the last 12 months, against 71 in 1999, the busiest year, and 17 in 2008. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 23% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Melton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Melton, 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
£66K
£165K
£263K
£234K
—
£426K
£559K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£84K
£156K
£169K
£203K
£220K
£308K
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
4% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
97 new homes have been sold in Melton since 1995; the share peaked at 52% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Melton. 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
Riverview is Melton’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
5 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
Riverview
IP12
14
£335,000
Mostly detached houses
2
St Andrews Place
IP12
12
£280,250
Mixed
3
The Street
IP12
9
£222,500
Mixed
4
Church View Close
IP12
8
£263,500
Mixed
5
Hall Farm Road
IP12
7
£280,000
Mostly semi-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.
Melton’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Melton
What is the average house price in Melton?
The median home in Melton sold for £307,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 80 standard sales (£315,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £423,500, semi-detached houses £275,250 and terraced houses £250,000.
Are house prices going up in Melton?
The median was £290,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£285,000), and £315,000 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 Melton each year?
24 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 26 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.