Dunstable house prices

Dunstable house prices are built from 41,420 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £169,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.9%.

HM Land Registry41,420 sales5,892 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Dunstable 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 Dunstable is £355,000 in 2025; the lowest is £54,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £332,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,906, so the real change over the whole record is +177.3% — about +3.34% 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: +40.9% in cash against +0.9% 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 Dunstable values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dunstable 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. 12,950 certificates cover Dunstable, and their median floor area is 76 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — 0.0%. 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.

7,265 of the sales on record are leasehold and 34,155 freehold — 17.5% 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 £113,995 and the median freehold sale £188,000 — a gap of +64.9%. 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 — +44.2%. 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 1,823 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 Central Bedfordshire, 54.5% of 139,601 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% 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 Central Bedfordshire at £1,250 a month as of Jun 2026 — £864 for a one-bedroom home and £1,374 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £169,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.82% 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 LU5, 195 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 5 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 57 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.

Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.66 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 294,252 residents in Central Bedfordshire across 120,754 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

18 state and independent schools have a LU5 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 all-through, 1 middle deemed secondary. 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. Dunstable sits above that national figure — +7.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,436 per square metre, across 5,892 of the 41,420 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 £3,200,000. 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.

Dunstable sits in Central Bedfordshire, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Central Bedfordshire at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,704 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 Dunstable

• High Street South655 sales
• Luton Road627 sales
• Victoria Street395 sales
• Chiltern Road379 sales
• Cemetery Road370 sales
• Dunstable Road327 sales
• West Street327 sales
• Conway Close316 sales
• Common Road315 sales
• High Street North297 sales
• High Street296 sales
• Tennyson Avenue295 sales
• Princes Street289 sales
• Milton Way273 sales
• The Mall267 sales
• Watling Gardens261 sales
• Jeans Way243 sales
• Fensome Drive234 sales
• The Parklands231 sales
• Halleys Way229 sales
• Leighton Road226 sales
• Union Street224 sales
• London Road220 sales
• Longbrooke216 sales
• Spoondell213 sales
• Tithe Farm Road209 sales
• Waterlow Road199 sales
• Bryant Way192 sales
• Great Northern Road190 sales
• Church Street189 sales
• Bowmans Way186 sales
• Coopers Way182 sales
• Grove Road182 sales
• Lowther Road182 sales
• Sundon Road182 sales
• Frenchs Gate181 sales
• Arnald Way175 sales
• Poynters Road174 sales
• Houghton Road167 sales
• Tring Road167 sales
• Ridgeway Avenue166 sales
• Trident Drive166 sales
• Randall Drive161 sales
• Salters Way160 sales
• Leafields159 sales
• Kiln Way158 sales
• Southwood Road157 sales
• Castle Hill Road156 sales
• Westfield Road154 sales
• Frances Drive153 sales
• Edward Street152 sales
• Beale Street150 sales
• St Michaels Avenue150 sales
• Elm Park Close148 sales
• Staines Square148 sales
• Northfields147 sales
• Russell Road147 sales
• Churchfield Road146 sales
• Canesworde Road144 sales
• Fareham Way140 sales

Postcode districts covering Dunstable

• LU5£159,995 median
• LU6£182,000 median

What is the average house price in Dunstable?

The median price paid in Dunstable across every sale on the register is £169,995. 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 Dunstable?

41,420 sales are on record for Dunstable, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Dunstable house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +40.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Dunstable house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £355,000, 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 Dunstable?

£2,436 per square metre, from the 5,892 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 25 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, “Dunstable 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.