Watkin Road, Leicester house prices are built from 465 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,700. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -11.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -35.9%.
Median price paid
£157,700
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-11.6%
Change in real terms
-35.9%
Median per m²
£2,308
HM Land Registry465 sales180 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How Watkin Road, Leicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Watkin Road, Leicester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £183,400 | £334,101 |
| 2010s | 10 | £148,000 | £208,680 |
| 2020s | 6 | £166,250 | £169,864 |
The highest yearly median on record for Watkin Road, Leicester is £200,000 in 2024; the lowest is £124,998 in 2013. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £183,400 to £139,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £340,255, so the real change over the whole record is -58.2% — about -4.07% 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: -11.6% in cash against -35.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 23 25 | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £147,500 | £147,500 |
| Apartment 19 67 | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| Flat 23 55 | 2 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £110,500 | £112,902 |
| 202 | 28 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| Apartment 24 31 | 30 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| Apartment 13 19 | 3 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| Apartment 20 19 | 10 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £124,000 | £126,696 |
| Flat 25 37 | 23 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 232 | 18 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Apartment 22 67 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £153,500 | £156,837 |
| 130 | 26 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| 86 | 13 Nov 2024 | Detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| Apartment 27 67 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £169,000 | £177,828 |
| Apartment 40 61 | 11 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| Flat 33 55 | 29 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| Apartment 34 31 | 5 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| Apartment 36 19 | 7 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £127,500 | £137,759 |
| Flat 1 35 | 17 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £185,839 |
| Apartment 31 31 | 29 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 113 | 15 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £247,500 | £267,414 |
| Apartment 18 67 | 8 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 174 | 24 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £62,500 | £67,529 |
| Flat 37 37 | 2 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| Flat 22 55 | 20 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £175,034 |
| Apartment 22 25 | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £188,000 | £217,814 |
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 Watkin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 23 25 Watkin Road | £184,250 (2005) | £147,500 (2026) | -1.1% | -3.8% |
| APARTMENT 19 67 Watkin Road | £220,972 (2005) | £155,000 (2026) | -1.7% | -4.4% |
| FLAT 23 55 Watkin Road | £130,000 (2009) | £110,500 (2025) | -1.0% | -3.9% |
| 202 Watkin Road | £194,995 (2011) | £290,000 (2025) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| APARTMENT 24 31 Watkin Road | £177,552 (2007) | £115,000 (2025) | -2.4% | -5.2% |
| APARTMENT 13 19 Watkin Road | £156,000 (2005) | £125,000 (2025) | -1.1% | -3.9% |
| APARTMENT 20 19 Watkin Road | £105,500 (2010) | £124,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.9% |
| FLAT 25 37 Watkin Road | £138,000 (2012) | £165,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 232 Watkin Road | £129,000 (2011) | £235,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| APARTMENT 22 67 Watkin Road | £200,750 (2005) | £153,500 (2025) | -1.3% | -4.1% |
| 130 Watkin Road | £115,000 (2011) | £205,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| FLAT 33 55 Watkin Road | £118,000 (2009) | £115,000 (2024) | -0.2% | -3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Watkin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 365 | 78.5% | £155,000 | £94,000 – £416,620 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 8.4% | £150,000 | £124,950 – £247,500 |
| Detached | 32 | 6.9% | £237,995 | £155,000 – £280,000 |
| Terraced | 29 | 6.2% | £124,000 | £60,000 – £290,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Watkin Road, Leicester
369 of the sales on record are leasehold and 96 freehold — 79.4% 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 £155,500 and the median freehold sale £162,750 — a gap of +4.7%. 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 | 369 | 79.4% | £155,500 |
| Freehold | 96 | 20.6% | £162,750 |
| New build | 224 | 48.2% | £160,000 |
| Existing home | 241 | 51.8% | £154,011 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +3.9%. 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 45 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 Watkin 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 £157,700 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.53% 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 Watkin 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.
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 Watkin Road, Leicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Watkin Road, Leicester sits above that national figure — +0.1%.
Within Leicester the street ranks 2245 of 5322 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £135,000 (+16.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,308 per square metre, across 180 of the 465 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 £60,000 to £416,620. 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.
Watkin 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
- London Road£105,000 median
- Welford Road£137,950 median
- Stoneygate Road£86,500 median
- Clarendon Park Road£141,000 median
- Avenue Road Extension£118,000 median
- Saffron Lane£98,000 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
- APARTMENT 12, 67 Watkin Road5 sales
- FLAT 23, 55 Watkin Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 20, 19 Watkin Road4 sales
- 130 Watkin Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 31, 19 Watkin Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 19, 67 Watkin Road3 sales
- 202 Watkin Road3 sales
- 232 Watkin Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 35 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 39, 19 Watkin Road3 sales
- 238 Watkin Road3 sales
- FLAT 35, 55 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 26, 19 Watkin Road3 sales
- 136 Watkin Road3 sales
- FLAT 18, 55 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 38, 67 Watkin Road3 sales
- FLAT 17, 37 Watkin Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, 35 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 9, 61 Watkin Road3 sales
- 234 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 36, 61 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 28, 61 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 40, 19 Watkin Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 16, 31 Watkin Road3 sales
Back to Leicester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Watkin Road, Leicester?
The median price paid in Watkin Road, Leicester across every sale on the register is £157,700. 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 Watkin Road, Leicester?
465 sales are on record for Watkin Road, Leicester, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Watkin Road, Leicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -11.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -35.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Watkin Road, Leicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £200,000, 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 Watkin Road, Leicester?
£2,308 per square metre, from the 180 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 22 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, “Watkin 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.