Leicester house prices

Leicester house prices are built from 255,896 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +51.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.5%.

HM Land Registry255,896 sales32,846 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Leicester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Leicester is £270,000 in 2025; the lowest is £47,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £47,000 to £265,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £104,362, so the real change over the whole record is +153.9% — about +3.05% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +51.4% in cash against +8.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leicester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 68,615 certificates cover Leicester, and their median floor area is 77 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

19,664 of the sales on record are leasehold and 236,232 freehold — 7.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £100,000 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +40.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +34.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 16,422 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Blaby, 43.0% of 41,196 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Blaby at £990 a month as of Jun 2026 — £706 for a one-bedroom home and £1,075 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.80% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of LE2, 362 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 133 violent, 15 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.

Against the 102,926 residents the 2021 census counted in Blaby, that is 3.52 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 102,926 residents in Blaby across 42,575 households. 79.0% of those households own their home and 21.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

33 state and independent schools have a LE2 postcode: 25 primary, 6 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leicester sits below that national figure — -14.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,488 per square metre, across 32,846 of the 255,896 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £500 to £6,750,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Leicester sits in Blaby, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Blaby at 7.0 times median local earnings of £40,102 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Leicester

• Main Street2,740 sales
• Leicester Road1,665 sales
• Station Road1,511 sales
• Hinckley Road1,187 sales
• London Road1,140 sales
• Melton Road842 sales
• Uppingham Road790 sales
• High Street786 sales
• Park Road571 sales
• Welford Road569 sales
• Bradgate Road494 sales
• Watkin Road465 sales
• Loughborough Road463 sales
• Stoneygate Road432 sales
• New Street429 sales
• Scraptoft Lane422 sales
• Avenue Road Extension403 sales
• Clarendon Park Road403 sales
• Kirkby Road398 sales
• Narborough Road397 sales
• Western Road397 sales
• Church Street365 sales
• Saffron Lane364 sales
• Howard Road354 sales
• Knighton Church Road351 sales
• Anstey Lane348 sales
• Milligan Road347 sales
• West Street347 sales
• Groby Road345 sales
• Lutterworth Road342 sales
• The Pastures341 sales
• Tudor Road339 sales
• Highfield Street337 sales
• King Street335 sales
• Church Lane333 sales
• Barkby Road325 sales
• Rutland Street325 sales
• Braunstone Lane318 sales
• St Saviours Road318 sales
• Humberstone Lane317 sales
• Stoughton Road315 sales
• Vernon Road314 sales
• Albion Street311 sales
• Beatrice Road296 sales
• Wicklow Drive296 sales
• Coleman Road294 sales
• Victoria Street292 sales
• Little Glen Road287 sales
• Manor Road285 sales
• Wigston Lane285 sales
• Mill Lane281 sales
• Gladstone Street280 sales
• Aylestone Road278 sales
• Knighton Park Road277 sales
• Church Road276 sales
• Harrow Road273 sales
• Stamford Street273 sales
• Packhorse Drive272 sales
• Barclay Street271 sales
• Cropston Road268 sales

Postcode districts covering Leicester

• LE2£131,500 median
• LE3£115,000 median
• LE4£118,000 median
• LE9£150,000 median
• LE5£125,000 median
• LE7£183,000 median
• LE8£175,000 median
• LE19£155,500 median
• LE6£157,000 median
• LE1£119,000 median
• LE18£130,000 median

What is the average house price in Leicester?

The median price paid in Leicester across every sale on the register is £135,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Leicester?

255,896 sales are on record for Leicester, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Leicester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +51.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Leicester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Leicester?

£1,488 per square metre, from the 32,846 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Leicester house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.