LE18 2 house prices are built from 3,631 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £127,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +54.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.8%.
Median price paid
£127,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+54.7%
Change in real terms
+10.8%
Median per m²
£1,690
HM Land Registry3,631 sales912 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How LE18 2 prices moved
The chart tracks the median LE18 2 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £48,500 | £107,693 |
| 2000s | 10 | £118,250 | £215,417 |
| 2010s | 10 | £148,000 | £208,680 |
| 2020s | 7 | £232,500 | £237,554 |
The highest yearly median on record for LE18 2 is £247,500 in 2026; the lowest is £44,500 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £45,750 to £247,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £101,587, so the real change over the whole record is +143.6% — about +2.91% 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: +54.7% in cash against +10.8% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bodenham Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £332,500 | £332,500 |
| 16 Halcroft Rise | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £262,500 | £262,500 |
| 24 New Forest Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 5 Netton Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 2 Bridport Close | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 40 Falmouth Drive | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 23 Bideford Close | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 8 South Avenue | 20 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £306,300 | £306,300 |
| 65 Penzance Avenue | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 5 Buckfast Close | 14 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 39 Paddock Street | 31 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 15 Pensilva Close | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| 23 Peacock Place | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 56 Homestead Drive | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 8 Saltash Close | 27 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 7 Elizabeth Crescent | 27 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 53 Owston Drive | 27 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £227,000 | £227,000 |
| 25 Pochins Close | 27 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| 1 Ringwood Close | 12 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 25 Manor Street | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 140 Station Road | 23 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 11 Sherborne Avenue | 16 Jan 2026 | Detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 3 Hillside Avenue | 16 Jan 2026 | Detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 16 Burnham Close | 16 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £204,000 | £204,000 |
| 19 Queens Drive | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £245,000 | £250,326 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 LE18 2 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bodenham Close | £69,000 (1996) | £332,500 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 24 New Forest Close | £65,000 (1999) | £250,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 5 Netton Close | £200,000 (2021) | £205,000 (2026) | +0.5% | -4.1% |
| 16 Halcroft Rise | £98,000 (2002) | £262,500 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 2 Bridport Close | £125,000 (2000) | £480,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 40 Falmouth Drive | £91,500 (2003) | £245,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 23 Bideford Close | £234,950 (2004) | £350,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| 8 South Avenue | £124,000 (2005) | £306,300 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 65 Penzance Avenue | £67,950 (2000) | £260,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 5 Buckfast Close | £155,000 (2014) | £215,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.3% |
| 39 Paddock Street | £48,000 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 15 Pensilva Close | £38,000 (1996) | £228,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. LE18 2 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 1,813 | 49.9% | £137,000 | £11,000 – £365,000 |
| Terraced | 1,083 | 29.8% | £117,500 | £9,129 – £340,000 |
| Detached | 452 | 12.4% | £195,000 | £40,000 – £650,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 283 | 7.8% | £74,950 | £19,700 – £185,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in LE18 2
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 936 certificates cover LE18 2, 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 56 m² | about 603 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 89 m² | about 958 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 28.2% | 264 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.6% | 15 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in LE18 2
307 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3,324 freehold — 8.5% 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 £75,000 and the median freehold sale £134,950 — a gap of +79.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 307 | 8.5% | £75,000 |
| Freehold | 3,324 | 91.5% | £134,950 |
| New build | 133 | 3.7% | £174,950 |
| Existing home | 3,498 | 96.3% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +40.0%. 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 151 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.
Section 07
Living in LE18 2
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 192 | 0.5% |
| B | 6,362 | 15.4% |
| C | 11,140 | 27.0% |
| D | 16,638 | 40.4% |
| E | 5,428 | 13.2% |
| F | 1,182 | 2.9% |
| G | 254 | 0.6% |
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 £127,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.32% 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 LE18, 189 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 66 violent, 9 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 24 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 102,926 residents the 2021 census counted in Blaby, that is 1.84 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around LE18 2
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.
14 state and independent schools have a LE18 postcode: 10 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wigston Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,286 |
| South Wigston High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 730 |
| Parkland Primary School South Wigston | Primary | Academy converter | 549 |
| The Meadow Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Little Hill Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 406 |
| Water Leys Primary School | Primary | Community school | 402 |
| Wigston College | Secondary | Academy converter | 241 |
| Fairfield Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| Glenmere Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 212 |
| Saint John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, Wigston, Leicestershire | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| South Wigston Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Leicester Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Narborough Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 9.5 km |
Section 09
How LE18 2 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. LE18 2 sits below that national figure — -19.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,690 per square metre, across 912 of the 3,631 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 £9,129 to £650,000. 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.
LE18 2 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Other sectors in LE18
The wider district is LE18.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in LE18 2?
The median price paid in LE18 2 across every sale on the register is £127,500. 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 LE18 2?
3,631 sales are on record for LE18 2, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have LE18 2 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were LE18 2 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £247,500, set in 2026. 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 LE18 2?
£1,690 per square metre, from the 912 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 12 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, “LE18 2 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.