Saffron Lane, Leicester house prices are built from 364 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +17.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.0%.
Median price paid
£98,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+17.3%
Change in real terms
-15.0%
Median per m²
£1,281
HM Land Registry364 sales98 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Saffron Lane, Leicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Saffron Lane, 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 | £37,500 | £83,268 |
| 2000s | 10 | £78,500 | £143,004 |
| 2010s | 9 | £124,975 | £176,215 |
| 2020s | 6 | £200,000 | £204,348 |
The highest yearly median on record for Saffron Lane, Leicester is £232,000 in 2023; the lowest is £34,950 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £37,500 to £200,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £83,268, so the real change over the whole record is +145.4% — about +3.04% 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: +17.3% in cash against -15.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 705 | 30 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £135,000 |
| 675b | 23 Jan 2026 | Detached | £387,000 | £387,000 |
| 474 | 14 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 194 | 26 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 379 | 22 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 751 | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 245 | 6 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £106,000 | £108,304 |
| 371 | 9 May 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 387 | 26 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 374 | 1 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 608 | 12 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 124 | 2 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £182,000 | £191,507 |
| 122 | 25 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £206,000 | £216,761 |
| 687 | 7 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 556 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 606 | 26 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 630 | 23 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 753 | 25 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £250,667 |
| 293 | 23 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 406 | 21 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 422 | 30 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 613 | 17 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| 368 | 2 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 397 | 26 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 293 | 30 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £190,000 | £220,131 |
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 Saffron Lane, Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 474 Saffron Lane | £235,000 (2021) | £265,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -2.2% |
| 194 Saffron Lane | £19,950 (1997) | £150,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 379 Saffron Lane | £33,000 (2001) | £215,000 (2025) | +8.1% | +5.2% |
| 751 Saffron Lane | £30,000 (1995) | £260,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 245 Saffron Lane | £25,500 (2000) | £106,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 371 Saffron Lane | £93,500 (2005) | £200,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 374 Saffron Lane | £107,500 (2008) | £220,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 608 Saffron Lane | £46,000 (1995) | £240,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 124 Saffron Lane | £98,000 (2005) | £182,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 122 Saffron Lane | £61,000 (2007) | £206,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.3% |
| 687 Saffron Lane | £43,000 (2000) | £280,000 (2024) | +8.1% | +5.3% |
| 606 Saffron Lane | £127,500 (2014) | £280,000 (2023) | +9.1% | +5.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Saffron Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 194 | 53.3% | £105,000 | £16,470 – £330,000 |
| Terraced | 146 | 40.1% | £89,500 | £15,000 – £245,000 |
| Detached | 20 | 5.5% | £140,000 | £33,000 – £387,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 1.1% | £37,500 | £25,500 – £106,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Saffron Lane, Leicester
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 360 freehold — 1.1% 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 £41,225 and the median freehold sale £98,000 — a gap of +137.7%. 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 | 4 | 1.1% | £41,225 |
| Freehold | 360 | 98.9% | £98,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.3% | £26,000 |
| Existing home | 363 | 99.7% | £98,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -73.5%. 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 64 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 Saffron Lane, 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 £98,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.12% 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 LE2, 362 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 133 violent, 15 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.
Against the 102,926 residents the 2021 census counted in Blaby, that is 3.52 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 Saffron Lane, 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.
33 state and independent schools have a LE2 postcode: 25 primary, 6 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauchamp College | Secondary | Academy converter | 2,309 |
| Sir Jonathan North Girls' College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,115 |
| Moat Community College | Secondary | Community school | 1,091 |
| Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 979 |
| Manor High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 941 |
| Gartree High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 924 |
| Lancaster Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 883 |
| St John the Baptist CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 602 |
| Launde Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 600 |
| Avenue Primary School | Primary | Community school | 545 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leicester Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| South Wigston Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 6.8 km |
| Leicester North (Great Central Railway) | Metro or underground | 6.8 km |
Section 09
How Saffron Lane, Leicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Saffron Lane, Leicester sits below that national figure — -37.8%.
Within Leicester the street ranks 4343 of 5322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-27.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,281 per square metre, across 98 of the 364 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 £15,000 to £387,000. 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.
Saffron Lane, 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
- London Road£105,000 median
- Welford Road£137,950 median
- Watkin Road£157,700 median
- Stoneygate Road£86,500 median
- Clarendon Park Road£141,000 median
- Avenue Road Extension£118,000 median
- Howard Road£158,975 median
- Knighton Church Road£180,000 median
- Milligan Road£108,000 median
- Lutterworth Road£200,000 median
- Stoughton Road£118,000 median
- Vernon Road£90,000 median
- Little Glen Road£160,450 median
- Wigston Lane£125,000 median
- Aylestone Road£117,750 median
- Knighton Park Road£174,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 116 Saffron Lane6 sales
- 194 Saffron Lane5 sales
- 751 Saffron Lane5 sales
- 379 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 630 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 406 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 622 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 186 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 601 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 297 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 375 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 699 Saffron Lane4 sales
- 245 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 608 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 687 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 606 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 422 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 393 Saffron Lane3 sales
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- 721 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 403 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 370 Saffron Lane3 sales
- 657 Saffron Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Saffron Lane, Leicester?
The median price paid in Saffron Lane, Leicester across every sale on the register is £98,000. 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 Saffron Lane, Leicester?
364 sales are on record for Saffron Lane, Leicester, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Saffron Lane, Leicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +17.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Saffron Lane, Leicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £232,000, 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 Saffron Lane, Leicester?
£1,281 per square metre, from the 98 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 30 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, “Saffron Lane, 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.