Main Street, Leicester house prices are built from 2,740 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £212,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.3%.
Median price paid
£212,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+40.0%
Change in real terms
+0.3%
Median per m²
£1,775
HM Land Registry2,740 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Leicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, Leicester 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £91,500 | £203,173 |
| 2000s | 10 | £186,000 | £338,837 |
| 2010s | 10 | £280,000 | £394,800 |
| 2020s | 7 | £350,000 | £357,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Leicester is £390,000 in 2023; the lowest is £61,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £90,000 to £350,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £199,843, so the real change over the whole record is +75.1% — about +1.82% 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: +40.0% in cash against +0.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 32 | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £495,500 | £495,500 |
| 18a | 18 May 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 38 | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| Linford Farm, 36 | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 |
| 126 | 27 Apr 2026 | Detached | £196,000 | £196,000 |
| Ballardie | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £685,000 | £685,000 |
| 34 | 14 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 72 | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £279,950 | £279,950 |
| Rainbow Cottage | 20 Mar 2026 | Detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 11 | 19 Mar 2026 | Detached | £925,000 | £925,000 |
| 58 | 13 Mar 2026 | Detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 18 | 6 Feb 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| Glennos Cottage, 21 | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 46 | 15 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| Llangvilla | 13 Jan 2026 | Detached | £830,000 | £830,000 |
| 6 | 12 Jan 2026 | Detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 52 | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 44 | 8 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 62 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 6 | 16 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £246,000 | £251,348 |
| 111a | 15 Dec 2025 | Detached | £610,000 | £623,261 |
| 39a | 15 Dec 2025 | Detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| Waterleys | 28 Nov 2025 | Detached | £760,000 | £776,522 |
| 36 | 21 Nov 2025 | Detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
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 Main Street, Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Main Street | £52,000 (2000) | £205,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 32 Main Street | £80,000 (1998) | £495,500 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 18A Main Street | £250,000 (2006) | £425,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 38 Main Street | £103,000 (1995) | £220,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.1% |
| LINFORD FARM, 36 Main Street | £815,000 (2019) | £1,050,000 (2026) | +3.7% | -0.2% |
| 126 Main Street | £110,000 (1999) | £196,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
| BALLARDIE Main Street | £251,000 (2021) | £685,000 (2026) | +22.2% | +16.7% |
| 34 Main Street | £62,500 (1997) | £350,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 72 Main Street | £45,000 (1996) | £279,950 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| RAINBOW COTTAGE Main Street | £180,000 (2001) | £400,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 11 Main Street | £71,000 (1995) | £925,000 (2026) | +8.6% | +5.9% |
| 58 Main Street | £59,950 (1995) | £485,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 1,322 | 48.2% | £330,000 | £34,500 – £1,900,000 |
| Terraced | 692 | 25.3% | £136,000 | £15,000 – £925,000 |
| Semi-detached | 596 | 21.8% | £182,000 | £28,000 – £2,000,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 130 | 4.7% | £88,000 | £10,000 – £250,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Leicester
133 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,607 freehold — 4.9% 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 £79,950 and the median freehold sale £221,000 — a gap of +176.4%. 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 | 133 | 4.9% | £79,950 |
| Freehold | 2,607 | 95.1% | £221,000 |
| New build | 116 | 4.2% | £195,000 |
| Existing home | 2,624 | 95.8% | £213,250 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.6%. 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 159 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 Main Street, 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 £212,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.60% 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 LE8, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.
Against the 102,926 residents the 2021 census counted in Blaby, that is 0.02 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 Main Street, 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.
11 state and independent schools have a LE8 postcode: 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Countesthorpe Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,149 |
| Kibworth Mead Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 852 |
| Kibworth Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 596 |
| Greenfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 555 |
| Fleckney Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 435 |
| Badgerbrook Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 398 |
| Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary School | Primary | Community school | 329 |
| Great Glen St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 321 |
| Blaby Stokes Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 197 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School Whetstone | Primary | Academy converter | 178 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| South Wigston Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Narborough Rail Station | Rail | 7.6 km |
| Leicester Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 12.8 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Leicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Leicester sits above that national figure — +34.6%.
Within Leicester the street ranks 1225 of 5322 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £135,000 (+57.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,775 per square metre, across 32 of the 2,740 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 £10,000 to £2,000,000. 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.
Main Street, 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
- Park Road£132,500 median
- Gladstone Street£130,500 median
- Dairy Way£190,000 median
- Enderby Road£165,000 median
- Blackbird Road£118,325 median
- The Fairway£209,225 median
- Winchester Road£185,000 median
- Grove Road£152,500 median
- Edward Road£132,250 median
- Stretton Road£165,000 median
- Kilby Road£121,000 median
- Forge Close£90,000 median
- Fleckney Road£165,000 median
- Spinney Halt£107,000 median
- Rosebank Road£147,500 median
- Coverside Road£280,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 38 Main Street35 sales
- 5 Main Street33 sales
- 3 Main Street31 sales
- 22 Main Street31 sales
- 9 Main Street29 sales
- 2 Main Street28 sales
- 14 Main Street27 sales
- 4 Main Street27 sales
- 7 Main Street27 sales
- 6 Main Street26 sales
- 26 Main Street25 sales
- 27 Main Street25 sales
- 10 Main Street24 sales
- 15 Main Street24 sales
- 8 Main Street23 sales
- 21 Main Street23 sales
- 31 Main Street23 sales
- 16 Main Street23 sales
- 44 Main Street22 sales
- 43 Main Street22 sales
- 20 Main Street22 sales
- 33 Main Street21 sales
- 30 Main Street21 sales
- 12 Main Street21 sales
Back to Leicester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Leicester?
The median price paid in Main Street, Leicester across every sale on the register is £212,000. 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 Main Street, Leicester?
2,740 sales are on record for Main Street, Leicester, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Street, Leicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +40.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Leicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £390,000, 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 Main Street, Leicester?
£1,775 per square metre, from the 32 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 19 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, “Main Street, 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.