Arnald Way, Dunstable house prices are built from 175 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 13 years from 2011 to 2024 the median moved +72.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +18.3%.
Median price paid
£158,000
Change in cash, 2011–2024
+72.3%
Change in real terms
+18.3%
HM Land Registry175 salesLatest sale 6 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Arnald Way, Dunstable prices moved
The chart tracks the median Arnald Way, Dunstable house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2024. 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 | 2 | £120,950 | £268,566 |
| 2000s | 7 | £184,000 | £335,194 |
| 2010s | 3 | £238,000 | £335,580 |
| 2020s | 2 | £399,998 | £408,693 |
The highest yearly median on record for Arnald Way, Dunstable is £410,000 in 2024; the lowest is £89,950 in 2000. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £120,950 to £410,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £250,793, so the real change over the whole record is +72.0% — about +2.11% 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: +72.3% in cash against +18.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 6 Feb 2026 | Detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 9 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £465,000 | £475,109 |
| 25 | 28 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 16 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £470,000 | £480,217 |
| 62 | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 60 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 50 | 20 Sep 2024 | Detached | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 15 | 28 Jun 2024 | Detached | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 52 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £468,246 |
| 6 | 27 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £416,000 | £449,471 |
| 59 | 10 Jan 2023 | Detached | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| 44 | 7 Oct 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 35 | 7 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| 43 | 4 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 12 | 28 Jan 2022 | Detached | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 40 | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| 31 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £416,935 |
| 17 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 51 | 23 Jun 2021 | Detached | £430,000 | £543,280 |
| 59 | 1 Feb 2021 | Detached | £399,995 | £505,370 |
| 7 | 15 Jan 2021 | Detached | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| 2 | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £420,000 | £543,802 |
| 10 | 29 May 2020 | Detached | £357,500 | £462,879 |
| 62 | 23 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 57 | 27 Aug 2019 | Detached | £320,000 | £418,553 |
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 Arnald Way, Dunstable values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Arnald Way | £118,000 (1998) | £445,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 9 Arnald Way | £125,950 (1999) | £465,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 25 Arnald Way | £89,950 (2000) | £285,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 16 Arnald Way | £118,950 (1998) | £470,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 62 Arnald Way | £84,950 (2000) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 60 Arnald Way | £79,950 (2000) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 50 Arnald Way | £131,950 (1999) | £410,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 15 Arnald Way | £123,950 (1999) | £425,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 52 Arnald Way | £128,000 (1999) | £445,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 6 Arnald Way | £108,950 (1998) | £416,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 59 Arnald Way | £154,950 (2000) | £485,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 35 Arnald Way | £95,950 (2000) | £290,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Arnald Way, Dunstable 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 103 | 58.9% | £222,000 | £108,950 – £485,000 |
| Semi-detached | 37 | 21.1% | £139,995 | £79,752 – £445,000 |
| Terraced | 35 | 20.0% | £109,950 | £78,950 – £275,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Arnald Way, Dunstable
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 175 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 175 | 100.0% | £158,000 |
| New build | 54 | 30.9% | £121,950 |
| Existing home | 121 | 69.1% | £225,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.8%. 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 3 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 Arnald Way, Dunstable
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,405 | 1.0% |
| B | 28,531 | 20.4% |
| C | 46,180 | 33.1% |
| D | 45,015 | 32.2% |
| E | 14,404 | 10.3% |
| F | 3,286 | 2.4% |
| G | 780 | 0.6% |
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 £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.49% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Arnald Way, Dunstable
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 all-through, 1 middle deemed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlington Upper School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,156 |
| Priory Academy | All-through | Academy converter | 830 |
| Houstone School | Secondary | Free schools | 765 |
| The Vale Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 601 |
| All Saints Academy Dunstable | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 520 |
| Thornhill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 516 |
| Parkfields Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 460 |
| Tithe Farm Primary School | Primary | Community school | 432 |
| Hadrian Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 394 |
| St Christophers Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 388 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leagrave Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Luton Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 9.3 km |
| Flitwick Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
Section 09
How Arnald Way, Dunstable compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Arnald Way, Dunstable sits above that national figure — +0.3%.
Within Dunstable the street ranks 516 of 762 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,995 (-7.1%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £78,950 to £485,000. 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.
Arnald Way, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Luton Road£160,000 median
- Cemetery Road£134,000 median
- Conway Close£84,500 median
- Tennyson Avenue£112,250 median
- Milton Way£117,000 median
- The Mall£90,000 median
- Jeans Way£185,000 median
- Fensome Drive£114,498 median
- The Parklands£161,000 median
- Halleys Way£120,000 median
- Longbrooke£120,000 median
- Tithe Farm Road£125,000 median
- Bryant Way£120,500 median
- Great Northern Road£157,498 median
- Church Street£118,000 median
- Grove Road£143,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Arnald Way6 sales
- 62 Arnald Way6 sales
- 25 Arnald Way5 sales
- 16 Arnald Way5 sales
- 11 Arnald Way5 sales
- 6 Arnald Way4 sales
- 59 Arnald Way4 sales
- 35 Arnald Way4 sales
- 43 Arnald Way4 sales
- 40 Arnald Way4 sales
- 7 Arnald Way4 sales
- 33 Arnald Way4 sales
- 68 Arnald Way4 sales
- 21 Arnald Way4 sales
- 48 Arnald Way4 sales
- 39 Arnald Way4 sales
- 9 Arnald Way3 sales
- 60 Arnald Way3 sales
- 50 Arnald Way3 sales
- 15 Arnald Way3 sales
- 31 Arnald Way3 sales
- 17 Arnald Way3 sales
- 57 Arnald Way3 sales
- 20 Arnald Way3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Arnald Way, Dunstable?
The median price paid in Arnald Way, Dunstable across every sale on the register is £158,000. 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 Arnald Way, Dunstable?
175 sales are on record for Arnald Way, Dunstable, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Arnald Way, Dunstable house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +72.3% between 2011 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +18.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Arnald Way, Dunstable house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £410,000, set in 2024. 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 Arnald Way, Dunstable?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 6 Feb 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, “Arnald Way, 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.