Cheapest Places to Buy a House or Flat in Nottingham

The cheapest place to buy a house or flat in Nottingham is the city centre, postcode district NG1, where the average asking price is £144,396. That average counts flats and houses together, and 83% of the homes in NG1 are flats. Bulwell, Old Basford and Bestwood Village (NG6) come next at £196,379, and fewer than one home in ten there is a flat.

Nottingham's council boundary is drawn tight around the city, and postcode districts take no notice of it. Eight postcode districts have a real share of their postcodes inside the city, and all eight are ranked here. Two of the eight are as much outside Nottingham as in it. They are NG2, which takes in West Bridgford in Rushcliffe, and NG5, which takes in Arnold in Gedling.

Article published: September 2026

Where Nottingham's Cheapest Postcode Districts Are

The shading shows each district's average asking price band, houses and flats together, August 2026. All 8 districts are in the ranking table further down. Tap a district to see its figure.

Choose a postcode districtSelect a districtNG1 · Nottingham city centreNG2 · Nottingham city centre, Colwick Park, Sneinton, The Meadows, West BridgfordNG3 · Carlton, Sneinton, St Ann's, MapperleyNG5 · Sherwood, Arnold, Woodthorpe, Bestwood, Carrington, Top Valley, Rise ParkNG6 · Bestwood Village, Bulwell, Old BasfordNG7 · New Basford, Forest Fields, Hyson Green, Radford, LentonNG8 · Aspley, Wollaton, Whitemoor, Bilborough, StrelleyNG11 · Clifton, Fairham, Ruddington, Gotham, Kingston on Soar, Wilford

Average asking price, houses and flats together, August 2026

• Below £200,000
• £200,000 to £249,999
• £250,000 to £299,999
• £300,000 to £399,999
• £400,000 and above
• No asking-price figure

Sources: PropertyData postcode key stats, August 2026; District boundaries derived from OS Code-Point Open: contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; District coverage names from the Wikipedia NG postcode area list, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The three cheapest areas in Nottingham on average asking price are the city centre and the two districts to its west and north-west. NG7 lies on the centre's western side and covers Lenton, Radford and Hyson Green, and NG6 is further out to the north-west, around Bulwell and Old Basford. North of the centre is NG5, the biggest of the eight by number of postcodes, which includes Sherwood and Arnold. St Ann's, Mapperley and Carlton are in NG3, on the north-east side.

The three dearest districts are to the west and the south. NG8 is the western one, covering Aspley, Bilborough and Wollaton. NG2 runs south from the centre through The Meadows and crosses the River Trent to West Bridgford. NG11 reaches furthest from the centre, to the south, and covers Clifton, Wilford, Ruddington and Gotham.

If you are looking in NG2 or NG5, the street decides which council area you would be in. On Ordnance Survey's Code-Point Open postcode counts, every NG1 and NG7 postcode is inside the Nottingham council area, and so are all but 19 of NG8's 1,193. About nine in ten of NG6's postcodes are inside, about three quarters of NG3's and about six in ten of NG11's. Just over half of NG5's are inside, 1,037 of 1,928, and fewer than half of NG2's, 632 of 1,445. The postcodes outside the city are mostly in Gedling for NG3, NG5 and NG6, and in Rushcliffe for NG2 and NG11, and every average for those districts includes homes that are not in Nottingham.

Districts that only clip the boundary are left out, and Beeston's NG9 is the main one. The NG postcode area itself goes much further, to Mansfield, Newark, Grantham and Sleaford, and none of those districts is ranked. Two labels in the table need a word. Sneinton is split between NG2 and NG3, and Bestwood Village in NG6 is a separate village in Gedling, not the Bestwood in NG5's list.

You may have searched for the cheapest places to live in Nottingham. This page can only answer the buying half of that question. There is no rent, bill or bus fare in any of its figures.

Cheapest Places to Buy a House in Nottingham: All 8 Districts Ranked

All eight districts are in the table, cheapest first, ordered by average asking price on August 2026 data with flats and houses in one average. Census housing stock figures retrieved in June 2026 put flats at 83% of the homes in NG1, 29% in NG2 and about a quarter in NG7. In NG3 they are 19%, and in the other four about one home in nine or fewer. Those shares are the homes that exist in each district, which is not the same as the homes that were advertised.

The sold price per square foot comes from homes that sold between February 2025 and June 2026. The asking prices come from homes listed in August 2026, so the two columns describe different homes and do not always agree.

The biggest gap in the table is between the city centre and Bulwell

NG1's average asking price of £144,396 is £51,983 below NG6's, and no other step between neighbouring rows is half that size. Flats are 83% of NG1's housing stock, and the average counts flats and houses together. The figures do not say how many of the homes advertised in August were flats, which is why £144,396 is a combined average and not the price of a house.

If you came here looking for a house, the second row is the first one where flats are a small part of the housing stock, 9.3% in NG6. Its £196,379 still counts flats and houses together, so it is not a house price.

Buyers paid almost the same per square foot in Radford, the city centre and Bulwell

On asking prices the three cheapest districts are £57,759 apart. On what buyers paid per square foot they are £4 apart. The average was £208 in Radford, Lenton and Hyson Green's NG7, £209 in the city centre and £212 in NG6, going by sold-price-per-square-foot data retrieved in August 2026. In NG5, the next district up, it was £246. If you are weighing the city centre against Bulwell or Radford, the asking averages are a long way apart and the averages paid per square foot are nearly level. Both cover every type of home, so neither one is the price of a flat or of a terrace.

The city centre's figure comes from 145 sales and NG7's from 638. Bulwell and Old Basford's 643 sales ran from £74 a square foot to £447, with seven in ten of them between £149 and £280, and in NG7 the range was £87 to £541. Which street a home is on and what state it is in decide where it falls in a range that wide. HM Land Registry's free price paid search lists individual sales with their prices, and you can narrow it by postcode district and property type. What the same districts let for is in our guide to buy to let in Nottingham.

The Meadows and West Bridgford share NG2, the dearest district per square foot

NG2 has the second highest average asking price of the eight and much the highest average paid per square foot. At £323 it is £57 above NG11, the next highest, and £115 above NG7, the lowest. Flats are 29% of its homes, the second highest share in the table.

This is the district where the boundary matters most. The Meadows is in the city. West Bridgford, on the other bank of the Trent, is in Rushcliffe, and so are 761 of NG2's 1,445 postcodes. The NG2 figures are one average across both banks, and nothing in them says how much each side contributes.

Clifton's district and Wollaton's are £34,243 apart on asking price and £3 apart per square foot

NG11 has the highest average asking price of the eight at £301,060. That is £34,243 above NG8, which covers Wollaton, Aspley, Bilborough and Strelley, and on the average paid per square foot you could hardly separate them, £266 in NG11 and £263 in NG8. They are the two districts with the fewest flats, 4.9% and 6.2% of homes. Nearly four in ten of NG11's postcodes are in Rushcliffe, which is where Ruddington and Gotham are, and NG8 is almost all city.

Our ranking of the most expensive street in Nottingham takes in the whole postal town. Three of its ten streets are in districts ranked here, two in Ruddington and one in West Bridgford, and all three are outside the city, in Rushcliffe.

Are There Houses for Sale in Nottingham Under £100k?

The average asking price is above £100,000 in all eight Nottingham districts. The lowest is the city centre's £144,396, and NG6's £196,379 is next, nearly twice the budget. Those averages count flats and houses together, and single homes are listed above and below them. An average cannot tell you whether a £100,000 home is for sale today.

Sold prices for whole council areas get closer. A Nottingham flat averaged £123,746 in July 2026 on the UK House Price Index. Two of the seven council areas compared further down averaged under £100,000 for a flat. They were Ashfield, which includes Hucknall, at £89,666, and Mansfield at £97,674. Erewash at £102,655 and Newark and Sherwood at £105,674 were not far above it.

It is flats only, though. For a terraced house the lowest average of the eight was Mansfield's £138,368. The ranking's asking prices were collected a month after these sold prices, from homes still for sale, so the two are not expected to match.

Our research on the cheapest houses in England uses sold prices by postcode district. It lists 19 English districts with an average sold price under £100,000, and none of them is in the East Midlands, where that page's cheapest entry is the NG20 district at £154,439.

If what you want is cheap houses for sale in Nottingham today, an average is the wrong tool. A listing is one home on one day. On a property portal you can set the postcode district, a price ceiling and a property type, and that shows what is for sale in NG6 or NG7 this week. Our buy to let property for sale page will not help with that search. It is for investors, it covers the whole UK, and at any given time it may have nothing in Nottinghamshire.

Below market value properties are a separate idea from cheap districts. The price is low for what that one home is worth, wherever it is. Wollaton can have one on a day when Bulwell has none. The ranking measures areas and cannot tell you whether any one asking price is fair.

How Affordable Are Nottingham's Cheapest Areas?

At 4.0 times household income, the city centre is the lowest of the eight. Clifton, Wilford and Ruddington's NG11 is the highest at 7.8 times, and five of the other six fall between 5.9 and 6.9.

The income column holds an area average for a whole household, with everyone in the home counted together (household income figures retrieved in September 2026). One person's wage is a different thing, and so is any test a lender would apply.

Official wage figures do not come by postcode district, and the one used here covers the whole council area. On the Nomis labour market profile, full-time workers living in Nottingham earned a median of £634 a week in 2025, against £721 across the East Midlands. With no district version of it, it stays out of the table.

West Bridgford's NG2 matches Radford's price to household income ratio with an average £85,089 higher

NG2 and NG7 both come out at 6.0 times household income, with average asking prices £85,089 apart. Income closes the gap. Households in NG2 average £48,200, the highest of the eight by £8,200, and households in NG7 average £33,700. If you are buying into NG2 from somewhere else, that 6.0 describes the people already living there, on both banks of the Trent.

Sherwood's NG5 is fourth on price and has the second lowest price to household income ratio

Only the city centre has a lower ratio than NG5's 5.5 times. NG5's average asking price is £25,408 above NG6's and £19,632 above NG7's, and its ratio is still below both, because its households average £40,000, the second highest figure in the table. NG6 has the lowest household income of the eight at £33,500, which is why the district with the second lowest asking average comes out at 5.9 times and not lower.

Clifton's NG11 and Carlton's NG3 have the same household income and asking averages £59,095 apart

Households in NG11 and NG3 both average £38,800. NG11's average asking price is £59,095 higher, which puts its ratio at 7.8 times, the highest in the table by nearly a full point. The city centre is at the other end. It combines the lowest average asking price with the third lowest household income, £35,700.

First-Time Buyers in Nottingham: Prices and Deposits by Property Type

On July 2026 sold prices for the Nottingham council area, a terraced house averaged £45,273 more than a flat, and a semi-detached house £43,960 more than a terrace. The step after that, from a semi to a detached house, was £103,945, more than the first two put together. If this is your first purchase, flats are the lowest row in the table at £123,746.

How big a deposit is depends on the buyer and the lender. Every deposit in the table uses the same 30% purely for illustration; it is not a lender's requirement. On that basis the average flat has the lowest illustrative deposit, £37,124. Choosing the average terrace instead adds £13,582 to the deposit and £31,691 to the balance of the price. Stamp duty is a separate bill, and our stamp duty calculator will work it out for the price you have in mind.

Nottingham flats almost matched the East Midlands average, and houses sold for at least £18,000 less

Against the East Midlands, flats are the odd one out. Nottingham's flat average of £123,746 was £878 below the regional figure of £124,624. Terraced houses were £18,695 below the regional average, semis £18,326 below and detached houses £39,480 below.

Every property type in Nottingham sold for less than a year earlier, flats by the most

Nottingham's all-types average was 1.3% lower in July 2026 than in July 2025. Terraced and semi-detached houses were both 0.4% lower and detached houses 1.5% lower. Flats were 5.2% lower, which is £6,846 off the average in a year. Across England flats were 3.5% lower over the same twelve months while terraces and semis rose, so lower flat prices were not a Nottingham oddity, though the city's fall was the bigger one.

All of that is what has already happened, and it says nothing about next year. The UK House Price Index methodology says its first estimate for a month is calculated on around 40% of the sales that will eventually be registered, so the latest months get revised as the rest come in.

Are the Areas Around Nottingham Cheaper?

Across all property types, mostly not. The Nottingham council area averaged £190,200 in July 2026 and five of the seven council areas compared here averaged more, with Ashfield £21 lower and Mansfield £4,330 lower. For flats it is the other way round, and six of the seven averaged less than Nottingham's £123,746.

Four of the seven share a boundary with the city: Broxtowe, Gedling, Rushcliffe and Ashfield. Beeston is in Broxtowe, Arnold and Carlton are in Gedling, West Bridgford is in Rushcliffe and Hucknall is in Ashfield. The other three are close by and do not touch Nottingham. Erewash is over the county line in Derbyshire and includes Ilkeston and Long Eaton. Mansfield and Newark and Sherwood are each one council area further out.

Every figure in the council-area table is a July 2026 sold price for a whole council area, not for one town. Nottingham's £190,200 was 17.3% below the Nottinghamshire average of £230,105 and 21.5% below the East Midlands figure of £242,274. England averaged £293,479, which puts the city 35.2% below it.

Over the year four of the eight averaged less than in July 2025, which were Nottingham, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Mansfield, and four averaged more, with Newark and Sherwood up the most at 3.8%. Flats were lower than a year earlier in seven of the eight. These are the same provisional first estimates, and they get revised.

Flats sold for less than Nottingham's in six of the seven areas, Gedling and Broxtowe included

For flats the order is different. Nottingham's £123,746 is the second highest flat average of the eight, and only Rushcliffe's £151,911 is above it. Flats in Gedling averaged £10,641 less than in the city and flats in Broxtowe £3,446 less, even though both council areas were more than £50,000 dearer across all property types. Ashfield's flats were £34,080 cheaper than Nottingham's and Mansfield's £26,072 cheaper.

Arnold, Carlton and Beeston's council areas were dearer than the city for every type of house

For houses it goes the other way in Gedling and Broxtowe. A terraced house averaged £7,857 more in Gedling than in Nottingham and £20,317 more in Broxtowe. Semi-detached houses were £18,360 and £30,601 dearer, and detached houses more than £42,000 dearer in both. Rushcliffe was well above all of them, with a terrace at £234,227, which is more than a Nottingham semi.

Hucknall's council area, Ashfield, was £23,000 to £48,000 cheaper for every type of home

£21 is the whole gap between Ashfield and Nottingham across all property types. An Ashfield terrace averaged £23,221 less than a Nottingham one, a semi £30,219 less and a detached house £47,805 less, on top of the £34,080 gap for flats. Mansfield, which does not border the city, was further below Nottingham for terraces, at £30,651 less. Erewash's terraces were £1,489 cheaper than the city's and Newark and Sherwood's £3,806 dearer. Hucknall is one of the towns inside Ashfield, but these are council-area averages, and they are not a price for Hucknall or for any one town.

Nottingham rents are the missing column on this page

What Nottingham homes let for, postcode by postcode, is in our Nottingham buy-to-let guide. If you are weighing Nottingham against a bigger city, the same district-by-district table exists for the cheapest place to buy a house in Manchester.

In my experience property is not liquid the way shares are. You hold it for longer, and getting in has often been easier than getting out. How long a home takes to sell is not in any table here.

We also source investment properties for investors, anywhere in the UK and not Nottingham in particular, and that work is separate from these tables.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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