Sold House Prices: How to Check What Homes on Your Street Sold For

Quick answer

Sold prices for any street in England and Wales are public record. HM Land Registry's Price Paid Data lists the price, date and property type of every registered residential sale. You can search it free, and it is the single most useful check you can make before deciding what to offer on a nearby home.

Where to look

1. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — the official source. Search by postcode, street or area and download results for free.
2. Property portals and data sites — Rightmove, Zoopla and several specialist sites republish the same Land Registry records in a friendlier street view. They add nothing to the underlying figures, but save you formatting the raw data.
3. Full sold-price detail pages — some sites show the property's complete sale history, which is useful when a home has been bought and sold several times.

Coverage runs from 1995 to the present for registered sales. Not every property appears: sales that were never registered (rare now), right-to-buy transfers at discount, transfers between family members and some first registrations can be missing or atypical.

The reporting lag

A sale only appears after completion and registration, which typically takes one to three months. In a fast-moving street, the most recent sales may be invisible when you're deciding what to offer — so treat the newest available figures as slightly out of date and consider whether prices have moved since.

How to read sold prices properly

• Compare like with like. A flat and a detached house on the same street can differ by a factor of three. Filter by property type first.
• Check the date. A 2018 sale says little about today's values. Weight recent sales most heavily.
• New-build premium. New-build homes often sell for more than equivalent older homes nearby, which can inflate a street's apparent average.
• Look at the pattern, not one sale. One high or low price can be a renovation, an auction result or a family transfer. Three or four consistent figures are far more meaningful.
• Adjust for size. Price per square foot, from the EPC register's recorded floor areas, makes homes of different sizes comparable. See our guide to calculating price per square foot.

From street prices to your offer

Sold prices tell you what the market has agreed, not what you should offer. To turn them into a number, combine them with the asking price, the property's condition and how long it has been listed. Our guide to finding comparable sold prices walks through that step by step.

Let the data do the work

An Offer Smart report pulls recent Land Registry sales for the street and surrounding area, matches them with EPC floor areas and compares them with the asking price — so you can see the evidence behind your offer in minutes.