Trident Drive, Dunstable house prices are built from 166 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 17 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £121,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +88.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +36.6%.
Median price paid
£121,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+88.0%
Change in real terms
+36.6%
HM Land Registry166 salesLatest sale 17 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Trident Drive, Dunstable prices moved
The chart tracks the median Trident Drive, Dunstable house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2021. 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 | 3 | £44,875 | £99,644 |
| 2000s | 8 | £110,000 | £200,388 |
| 2010s | 3 | £139,500 | £196,695 |
| 2020s | 1 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for Trident Drive, Dunstable is £250,000 in 2021; the lowest is £44,000 in 1998. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £44,875 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,148, so the real change over the whole record is +232.0% — about +5.13% 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: +88.0% in cash against +36.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | 17 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £328,000 | £335,130 |
| 156 | 30 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| 158 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 157 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £285,000 | £299,888 |
| 166 | 22 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £292,000 | £307,254 |
| 88 | 20 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £268,321 |
| 92 | 7 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| 33 | 26 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 84 | 7 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 41 | 25 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 152 | 17 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 60 | 28 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 34 | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 74 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 173 | 15 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 46 | 20 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £288,000 | £363,871 |
| 158 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 20 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 77 | 12 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 41 | 18 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £195,000 | £252,479 |
| 103 | 28 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £202,000 | £264,212 |
| 134 | 13 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £307,375 |
| 109 | 9 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £144,100 | £188,480 |
| 173 | 23 May 2019 | Terraced | £252,000 | £329,610 |
| 71 | 15 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £240,000 | £313,915 |
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 Trident Drive, Dunstable values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 Trident Drive | £154,000 (2014) | £328,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +3.9% |
| 156 Trident Drive | £120,000 (2003) | £335,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
| 158 Trident Drive | £48,000 (1997) | £315,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| 88 Trident Drive | £99,950 (2002) | £255,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 33 Trident Drive | £41,000 (2000) | £280,000 (2023) | +8.7% | +5.8% |
| 84 Trident Drive | £141,000 (2014) | £310,000 (2022) | +10.3% | +7.4% |
| 41 Trident Drive | £105,000 (2009) | £305,000 (2022) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 152 Trident Drive | £52,000 (1999) | £285,000 (2022) | +7.7% | +5.1% |
| 74 Trident Drive | £102,000 (2004) | £240,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 173 Trident Drive | £252,000 (2019) | £290,000 (2021) | +7.3% | +5.4% |
| 20 Trident Drive | £70,000 (2002) | £230,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.1% |
| 77 Trident Drive | £44,500 (1997) | £235,000 (2021) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Trident Drive, 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 | 121 | 72.9% | £124,500 | £19,000 – £335,000 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 25.9% | £110,000 | £33,500 – £292,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.6% | £66,000 | £66,000 – £66,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.6% | £120,000 | £120,000 – £120,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Trident Drive, Dunstable
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 166 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 | 166 | 100.0% | £121,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.6% | £49,995 |
| Existing home | 165 | 99.4% | £122,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -59.0%. 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 7 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 Trident Drive, 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 £121,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.40% 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 Trident Drive, 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 Trident Drive, Dunstable compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Trident Drive, Dunstable sits below that national figure — -23.2%.
Within Dunstable the street ranks 660 of 762 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,995 (-28.8%).
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 £19,000 to £335,000. 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.
Trident Drive, 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
- 33 Trident Drive7 sales
- 77 Trident Drive5 sales
- 71 Trident Drive5 sales
- 156 Trident Drive4 sales
- 158 Trident Drive4 sales
- 41 Trident Drive4 sales
- 69 Trident Drive4 sales
- 24 Trident Drive4 sales
- 88 Trident Drive3 sales
- 152 Trident Drive3 sales
- 74 Trident Drive3 sales
- 20 Trident Drive3 sales
- 103 Trident Drive3 sales
- 72 Trident Drive3 sales
- 122 Trident Drive3 sales
- 104 Trident Drive3 sales
- 66 Trident Drive3 sales
- 83 Trident Drive3 sales
- 123 Trident Drive3 sales
- 51 Trident Drive3 sales
- 112 Trident Drive3 sales
- 124 Trident Drive2 sales
- 84 Trident Drive2 sales
- 173 Trident Drive2 sales
Back to Dunstable house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Trident Drive, Dunstable?
The median price paid in Trident Drive, Dunstable across every sale on the register is £121,000. 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 Trident Drive, Dunstable?
166 sales are on record for Trident Drive, Dunstable, the most recent completing on 17 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Trident Drive, Dunstable house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +88.0% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +36.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Trident Drive, Dunstable house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2021. 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 Trident Drive, 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 17 Jul 2025. 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, “Trident Drive, 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.