That is the middle of 86 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 6.2 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.
86 homes sold in three years: 21 detached houses, 17 semi-detached houses, 36 terraced houses and 12 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£685K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£595K–£880K
Semi-detached houses£625K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£550K–£665K
Terraced houses£663K
median sale · 36 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£525K–£830K
Last 12 months
£610K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes£303K
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£460K
Last 12 months
£268K8 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 42% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses42%
Flats and maisonettes14%
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 Southwold’s homes sold for between £490K and £795K
One sale in ten was under £320K and one in ten over £1.1M. 3% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £625,000, sits in the £500–750K band
86 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £78,500 in 1995 to £490,000 in the last 12 months (£545,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
23 sales in the last 12 months, against 76 in 1996, the busiest year, and 29 in 2024.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Southwold costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Southwold, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Terraced houses
£76K
£220K
£380K
£465K
£455K
£578K
£610K
Flats and maisonettes
£68K
—
£250K
£319K
£278K
£380K
£268K
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
34 new homes have been sold in Southwold since 1995; the share peaked at 13% in 2020.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Southwold. 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
Stradbroke Road is Southwold’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Stradbroke Road
IP18
9
£795,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
High Street
IP18
6
£428,250
Mixed
3
North Road
IP18
5
£650,000
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.
Southwold’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Kessingland, Halesworth and Worlingham.
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 Southwold
What is the average house price in Southwold?
The median home in Southwold sold for £625,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 86 standard sales (£490,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £685,000, semi-detached houses £625,000, terraced houses £662,500 and flats and maisonettes £303,000.
Are house prices going up in Southwold?
The median was £625,399 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£632,000), and £490,000 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 Southwold each year?
23 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 45 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.