Forest Gate, Leicester house prices are built from 197 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £124,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +52.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.8%.
Median price paid
£124,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+52.9%
Change in real terms
+10.8%
HM Land Registry197 salesLatest sale 13 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Forest Gate, Leicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Gate, Leicester 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 | £41,500 | £92,150 |
| 2000s | 9 | £117,500 | £214,050 |
| 2010s | 6 | £143,875 | £202,864 |
| 2020s | 5 | £219,950 | £224,732 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Gate, Leicester is £231,250 in 2024; the lowest is £39,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £39,500 to £219,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £87,709, so the real change over the whole record is +156.2% — about +3.19% 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: +52.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 13 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £226,000 | £226,000 |
| 84 | 30 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 65 | 26 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 25 | 16 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £219,950 | £224,732 |
| 98 | 9 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 85 | 30 May 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 89 | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 7 | 18 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 85 | 19 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 90 | 27 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 3 | 27 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £222,500 | £234,123 |
| 22 | 7 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 39 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 12 the Shoemakers | 24 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 72a | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 27 | 13 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £226,000 | £244,184 |
| 59 | 22 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 14 | 25 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 42 | 31 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 92 | 28 Feb 2023 | Detached | £246,000 | £265,793 |
| 4 the Shoemakers | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £159,000 | £184,215 |
| 38 | 2 Sep 2022 | Detached | £467,500 | £541,639 |
| 2 the Shoemakers | 7 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 37 | 19 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 101 | 14 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £200,000 | £231,717 |
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 Forest Gate, Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 Forest Gate | £52,500 (2001) | £226,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 84 Forest Gate | £41,500 (1998) | £220,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 65 Forest Gate | £44,500 (2000) | £185,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 25 Forest Gate | £143,000 (2017) | £219,950 (2025) | +5.5% | +1.8% |
| 98 Forest Gate | £140,000 (2007) | £240,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 85 Forest Gate | £30,000 (1995) | £250,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
| 7 Forest Gate | £63,000 (1997) | £280,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 3 Forest Gate | £43,500 (1996) | £222,500 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 90 Forest Gate | £103,000 (2003) | £250,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 22 Forest Gate | £79,950 (2003) | £220,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 39 Forest Gate | £55,000 (2001) | £240,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 12 the SHOEMAKERS Forest Gate | £136,000 (2003) | £180,000 (2023) | +1.4% | -1.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Gate, Leicester 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 | 113 | 57.4% | £121,950 | £27,000 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 42 | 21.3% | £124,000 | £27,000 – £317,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 29 | 14.7% | £118,000 | £80,000 – £180,000 |
| Detached | 13 | 6.6% | £175,000 | £46,500 – £467,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Gate, Leicester
29 of the sales on record are leasehold and 168 freehold — 14.7% 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 £118,000 and the median freehold sale £124,997 — a gap of +5.9%. 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 | 29 | 14.7% | £118,000 |
| Freehold | 168 | 85.3% | £124,997 |
| New build | 6 | 3.0% | £112,500 |
| Existing home | 191 | 97.0% | £124,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.0%. 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 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 Forest Gate, Leicester
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 £124,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.51% 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 LE7, 43 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 10 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.9 times quieter.
Against the 102,926 residents the 2021 census counted in Blaby, that is 0.42 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 Forest Gate, Leicester
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.
20 state and independent schools have a LE7 postcode: 18 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wreake Valley Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,148 |
| The Martin High School Anstey | Secondary | Academy converter | 781 |
| Rothley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 610 |
| The Merton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 413 |
| St Peter and St Paul Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| The Latimer Primary School | Primary | Community school | 361 |
| Fernvale Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 331 |
| Woolden Hill Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 228 |
| Houghton-on-the-Hill Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Thurnby, St Luke's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Syston Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Great Central Railway | Tram | 4.4 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 4.5 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How Forest Gate, Leicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Gate, Leicester sits below that national figure — -20.7%.
Within Leicester the street ranks 3397 of 5322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-7.4%).
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 £467,500. 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.
Forest Gate, Leicester 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
Streets nearby
- Melton Road£125,000 median
- Uppingham Road£201,250 median
- High Street£112,000 median
- Loughborough Road£150,000 median
- New Street£102,000 median
- Anstey Lane£131,975 median
- West Street£125,000 median
- Highfield Street£94,000 median
- Barkby Road£142,000 median
- Albion Street£120,000 median
- Cropston Road£163,500 median
- Swithland Lane£393,000 median
- Wolsey Way£105,000 median
- Mountsorrel Lane£137,250 median
- Regent Street£120,000 median
- Sedgefield Drive£115,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 91 Forest Gate6 sales
- 3 Forest Gate6 sales
- 2, the SHOEMAKERS Forest Gate6 sales
- 7 Forest Gate5 sales
- 42 Forest Gate5 sales
- 49 Forest Gate5 sales
- 12 Forest Gate5 sales
- 87 Forest Gate5 sales
- 5, the SHOEMAKERS Forest Gate5 sales
- 98 Forest Gate4 sales
- 85 Forest Gate4 sales
- 90 Forest Gate4 sales
- 72A Forest Gate4 sales
- 11, the SHOEMAKERS Forest Gate4 sales
- 10, the SHOEMAKERS Forest Gate4 sales
- 16 Forest Gate4 sales
- 11 Forest Gate4 sales
- 83 Forest Gate4 sales
- 95 Forest Gate4 sales
- 84 Forest Gate3 sales
- 39 Forest Gate3 sales
- 101 Forest Gate3 sales
- 21 Forest Gate3 sales
- 30 Forest Gate3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Gate, Leicester?
The median price paid in Forest Gate, Leicester across every sale on the register is £124,950. 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 Forest Gate, Leicester?
197 sales are on record for Forest Gate, Leicester, the most recent completing on 13 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Gate, Leicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +52.9% between 2015 and 2025. 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 Forest Gate, Leicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £231,250, 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 Forest Gate, Leicester?
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 13 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, “Forest Gate, Leicester 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.