House prices in LN12 (Sutton On Sea)

Price per square metre data and charts to help you understand the housing market in LN12 - stats were last calculated on 01 December 2025.

Defining 'LN12'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "LN12", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it LN12, Sutton On Sea. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in LN12 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in October 2025, 64, Marine Avenue, Sutton On Sea, LN12 2TY sold for £200,000. Given the internal area of 52 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £200,000 ÷ 52 sqm = £3,846.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on LN12 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in LN12

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in LN12 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £2,350 to £2,500, £2,500 to £2,650, £2,650 to £2,800 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 458 sales that took place in LN12, in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in LN12, Sutton On Sea. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £3,180 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of LN12 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for LN12

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Sutton On Sea. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'LN12' as well as the 'LN' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'LN12' is £2,690.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 458 transactions in LN12, Sutton On Sea half were sold for between £1,980 and £3,180 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 458 for LN12, Sutton On Sea.

    • Property price map for Sutton On Sea

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'LN12' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Sutton On Sea
    House price map for Sutton On Sea

    Will LN12 house prices drop in 2025?

    House prices in LN12 grew 10.4% in the last year, 6.2% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in LN12 (Sutton On Sea) compared with the wider postcode area 'LN'.You can extrapolate from this based on your own views.

    House price index for LN12

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'LN12' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in LN12 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for LN12, Sutton On Sea against those of the broader postcode area 'LN'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire East Lindsey local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for LN12
    LN area LN12 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 2.7% -0.1% 3.3% 0.5%
    20 yr total 70.4% -1.2% 90.9% 10.6%
    10 yr per annum 3.8% 0.6% 5.2% 2.0%
    10 yr total 44.8% 6.3% 66.6% 22.3%
    5 yr per annum 3.8% -0.7% 6.0% 1.4%
    5 yr total 20.3% -3.5% 34.0% 7.4%
    1 yr per annum 3.0% -0.9% 10.4% 6.2%
    1 yr total 3.0% -0.9% 10.4% 6.2%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, LN area have seen a -0.1% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -1.2% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, LN12 district have seen a 1.4% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 7.4% in real terms.

    Most recent LN12 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Golf Road, , LN12 1E 64 sqm £2,924 17
    Jacklin Crescent, , LN12 1J 56 sqm £3,148 17
    George Street, , LN12 2B 91 sqm £1,767 16
    Sandringham Drive, , LN12 2J 62 sqm £2,995 14
    Church Lane, , LN12 2J 99 sqm £2,405 14
    Brooke Drive, , LN12 2D 68 sqm £3,002 13
    Seacroft Road, , LN12 2D 77 sqm £2,115 13
    The Strand, , LN12 1B 60 sqm £2,705 12

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'LN12' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'LN12'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    LN9 Horncastle £2,020 sqm £2,450 sqm £2,770 sqm 408
    LN8 Wragby £1,930 sqm £2,410 sqm £2,880 sqm 522
    LN7 Caistor £1,880 sqm £2,160 sqm £2,450 sqm 163
    LN6 North Hykeham £2,240 sqm £2,660 sqm £2,970 sqm 1,683
    LN5 Lincoln £1,720 sqm £2,310 sqm £2,860 sqm 956
    LN4 Bracebridge Heath £2,210 sqm £2,590 sqm £2,940 sqm 1,068
    LN3 Cherry Willingham £2,160 sqm £2,600 sqm £2,960 sqm 240
    LN2 Lincoln £2,100 sqm £2,700 sqm £3,150 sqm 1,314
    LN13 Alford £1,880 sqm £2,240 sqm £2,740 sqm 158
    LN12 Sutton On Sea £1,980 sqm £2,690 sqm £3,180 sqm 458

    Raw data

    Our analysis of LN12 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    64, Marine Avenue, £200,000
    Oct-2025
    		 52 3,846
    5, Kensington Gardens, £175,000
    Oct-2025
    		 55 3,181
    30, Winchester Drive, £220,000
    Oct-2025
    		 79 2,784

    See the entire list of all sales in LN12 here.

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