Melton Road, Leicester house prices are built from 842 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 7 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +68.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +20.7%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+68.6%
Change in real terms
+20.7%
Median per m²
£1,860
HM Land Registry842 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 7 May 2026
Section 01
How Melton Road, Leicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Melton Road, 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 | £58,450 | £129,787 |
| 2000s | 10 | £130,000 | £236,822 |
| 2010s | 10 | £174,000 | £245,340 |
| 2020s | 7 | £275,000 | £280,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for Melton Road, Leicester is £333,000 in 2025; the lowest is £48,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £295,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,583, so the real change over the whole record is +176.8% — about +3.34% 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: +68.6% in cash against +20.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 973 | 7 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £297,500 | £297,500 |
| 889 | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 697a | 15 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £257,500 | £257,500 |
| 949 | 9 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 1127 | 30 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £248,000 | £248,000 |
| 1522 | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £398,000 | £398,000 |
| Flat 6 750 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £115,200 | £115,200 |
| 1694a | 16 Dec 2025 | Detached | £321,000 | £327,978 |
| 1040a | 10 Dec 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 1677 | 3 Dec 2025 | Detached | £505,000 | £515,978 |
| 815a | 21 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £341,000 | £348,413 |
| 963 | 22 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £362,717 |
| 1038 | 11 Sep 2025 | Detached | £393,000 | £401,543 |
| Three Ways Farmhouse, 1578 | 5 Sep 2025 | Detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 845 | 25 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 274 | 24 Jul 2025 | Detached | £390,000 | £398,478 |
| 234 | 14 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £253,000 | £258,500 |
| 1016 | 3 Jul 2025 | Detached | £502,000 | £512,913 |
| 1769 | 13 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 794 | 6 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £179,500 | £183,402 |
| Flat 5 50 | 28 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £69,000 | £70,500 |
| 66 | 21 May 2025 | Terraced | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| Brookfield, 1883 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| 1079 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £501,000 | £511,891 |
| 1829 | 27 Mar 2025 | Detached | £580,000 | £592,609 |
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 Melton Road, Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 973 Melton Road | £330,000 (2022) | £297,500 (2026) | -2.6% | -6.1% |
| 889 Melton Road | £293,000 (2022) | £295,000 (2026) | +0.2% | -3.4% |
| 697A Melton Road | £230,000 (2021) | £257,500 (2026) | +2.3% | -2.4% |
| 949 Melton Road | £116,500 (2003) | £320,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 1127 Melton Road | £125,000 (2006) | £248,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 1522 Melton Road | £248,000 (2008) | £398,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 6 750 Melton Road | £46,000 (2015) | £115,200 (2026) | +8.7% | +5.4% |
| 1694A Melton Road | £207,000 (2005) | £321,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 1677 Melton Road | £289,995 (2015) | £505,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.4% |
| 815A Melton Road | £189,950 (2015) | £341,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +2.7% |
| 963 Melton Road | £79,950 (1999) | £355,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 845 Melton Road | £42,500 (1997) | £210,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Melton Road, 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 | 298 | 35.4% | £100,000 | £16,500 – £415,000 |
| Semi-detached | 270 | 32.1% | £140,000 | £11,000 – £537,500 |
| Detached | 224 | 26.6% | £220,000 | £29,950 – £1,040,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 50 | 5.9% | £65,000 | £11,500 – £280,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Melton Road, Leicester
48 of the sales on record are leasehold and 794 freehold — 5.7% 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 £67,000 and the median freehold sale £127,750 — a gap of +90.7%. 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 | 48 | 5.7% | £67,000 |
| Freehold | 794 | 94.3% | £127,750 |
| New build | 31 | 3.7% | £115,000 |
| Existing home | 811 | 96.3% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.0%. 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 126 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 Melton Road, 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 £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.50% 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 Melton Road, 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 Melton Road, Leicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Melton Road, Leicester sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Within Leicester the street ranks 3328 of 5322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-7.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,860 per square metre, across 44 of the 842 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 £11,000 to £1,040,000. 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.
Melton Road, 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
- 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
- Forest Gate£124,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 843 Melton Road7 sales
- 1377 Melton Road6 sales
- 845 Melton Road5 sales
- 1845 Melton Road5 sales
- 1754 Melton Road5 sales
- 851 Melton Road5 sales
- 1827 Melton Road5 sales
- 849 Melton Road5 sales
- 650 Melton Road5 sales
- 817 Melton Road5 sales
- 616 Melton Road5 sales
- 1127 Melton Road4 sales
- 1503 Melton Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, ARLEN COURT, 1372 Melton Road4 sales
- 669 Melton Road4 sales
- THE GARDEN HOUSE, 1758 Melton Road4 sales
- 951 Melton Road4 sales
- 777 Melton Road4 sales
- 660 Melton Road4 sales
- 767 Melton Road4 sales
- SHANGTON LODGE Melton Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 50 Melton Road4 sales
- 662 Melton Road4 sales
- 1841 Melton Road4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Melton Road, Leicester?
The median price paid in Melton Road, Leicester across every sale on the register is £125,000. 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 Melton Road, Leicester?
842 sales are on record for Melton Road, Leicester, the most recent completing on 7 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Melton Road, Leicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +68.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +20.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Melton Road, Leicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £333,000, set in 2025. 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 Melton Road, Leicester?
£1,860 per square metre, from the 44 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 7 May 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, “Melton Road, 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.