Dunstable Road, Dunstable house prices are built from 327 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £199,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +101.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +46.3%.
Median price paid
£199,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+101.8%
Change in real terms
+46.3%
HM Land Registry327 salesLatest sale 12 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Dunstable Road, Dunstable prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dunstable Road, Dunstable house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £71,500 | £158,764 |
| 2000s | 9 | £185,000 | £337,016 |
| 2010s | 9 | £244,000 | £344,040 |
| 2020s | 6 | £400,000 | £408,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dunstable Road, Dunstable is £500,000 in 2023; the lowest is £51,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £51,500 to £440,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,354, so the real change over the whole record is +293.1% — about +4.67% 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: +101.8% in cash against +46.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 12 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 33 Bell Cottages | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 37 Bell Cottages | 5 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 88 | 15 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 53 | 31 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £505,761 |
| 31 Bell Cottages | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 242 | 16 Jun 2025 | Detached | £725,000 | £740,761 |
| 2 | 28 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 58 | 2 May 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 12 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 60 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £252,500 | £257,989 |
| 39 Bell Cottages | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 108 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 18 | 7 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £740,000 | £756,087 |
| 2 | 13 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £470,000 | £494,552 |
| 22 | 2 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 26 | 24 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £725,000 | £762,873 |
| 3 | 12 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £439,995 | £462,980 |
| 12 | 29 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| 268 | 24 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £578,731 |
| 54 | 17 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £294,564 | £309,952 |
| 216 | 2 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 49 | 12 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £417,500 | £439,310 |
| 23 | 27 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 13 | 1 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
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 Dunstable Road, Dunstable values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Dunstable Road | £49,000 (1995) | £340,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 88 Dunstable Road | £169,995 (2002) | £255,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| 53 Dunstable Road | £143,000 (2000) | £495,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 242 Dunstable Road | £225,000 (1999) | £725,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 2 Dunstable Road | £210,000 (2011) | £380,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 58 Dunstable Road | £173,750 (2010) | £160,000 (2025) | -0.5% | -3.5% |
| 12 Dunstable Road | £243,000 (2005) | £285,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| 60 Dunstable Road | £73,000 (2001) | £252,500 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 108 Dunstable Road | £95,000 (2000) | £450,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 18 Dunstable Road | £58,000 (1998) | £740,000 (2025) | +9.9% | +7.0% |
| 22 Dunstable Road | £30,000 (1995) | £170,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 26 Dunstable Road | £46,000 (1995) | £725,000 (2024) | +10.0% | +7.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dunstable Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 136 | 41.6% | £160,000 | £27,000 – £740,000 |
| Semi-detached | 114 | 34.9% | £199,950 | £36,000 – £600,000 |
| Detached | 77 | 23.5% | £390,000 | £55,000 – £1,350,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dunstable Road, Dunstable
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 327 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 | 327 | 100.0% | £199,000 |
| New build | 3 | 0.9% | £95,000 |
| Existing home | 324 | 99.1% | £199,973 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.5%. 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 17 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 Dunstable Road, Dunstable
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £199,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.90% 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 LU6, 89 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 32 violent, 1 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.16 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 Dunstable Road, Dunstable
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
14 state and independent schools have a LU6 postcode: 12 primary, 1 nursery, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensbury Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,093 |
| Lancot School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 423 |
| Ardley Hill Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 422 |
| Beecroft Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 413 |
| Lark Rise Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 351 |
| Dunstable Icknield Lower School | Primary | Academy converter | 295 |
| Edlesborough Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 224 |
| Ashton St Peter's VA C of E School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 205 |
| Watling Lower School | Primary | Academy converter | 190 |
| Eaton Bray Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 188 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leagrave Rail Station | Rail | 6.3 km |
| Luton Rail Station | Rail | 8.5 km |
| Cheddington Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 9.8 km |
Section 09
How Dunstable Road, Dunstable compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dunstable Road, Dunstable sits above that national figure — +26.3%.
Within Dunstable the street ranks 372 of 762 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £169,995 (+17.1%).
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 £27,000 to £1,350,000. 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 Road, Dunstable sits in Buckinghamshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 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
- High Street South£81,000 median
- Victoria Street£129,000 median
- Chiltern Road£134,995 median
- West Street£137,000 median
- Common Road£335,000 median
- High Street North£125,000 median
- High Street£193,000 median
- Princes Street£158,000 median
- Watling Gardens£179,995 median
- Leighton Road£282,500 median
- Union Street£140,000 median
- London Road£159,750 median
- Spoondell£135,000 median
- Waterlow Road£135,000 median
- Bowmans Way£96,000 median
- Lowther Road£189,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 12 Dunstable Road9 sales
- 22 Dunstable Road8 sales
- 4 Dunstable Road8 sales
- 10 Dunstable Road8 sales
- 24 Dunstable Road7 sales
- 86 Dunstable Road7 sales
- 8 Dunstable Road7 sales
- 25, BELL COTTAGES Dunstable Road7 sales
- 33 Dunstable Road6 sales
- 26 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 3 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 23 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 30 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 92 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 52 Dunstable Road5 sales
- 88 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 53 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 242 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 2 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 18 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 54 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 13 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 9 Dunstable Road4 sales
- 88A Dunstable Road4 sales
Back to Dunstable house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dunstable Road, Dunstable?
The median price paid in Dunstable Road, Dunstable across every sale on the register is £199,000. 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 Dunstable Road, Dunstable?
327 sales are on record for Dunstable Road, Dunstable, the most recent completing on 12 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dunstable Road, Dunstable house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +101.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +46.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dunstable Road, Dunstable house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £500,000, set in 2023. 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 Road, 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 12 Jan 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 Road, 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.