Wicklow Drive, Leicester house prices

Wicklow Drive, Leicester house prices are built from 296 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £117,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +103.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +48.9%.

HM Land Registry296 sales72 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Wicklow Drive, Leicester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Wicklow Drive, Leicester is £270,000 in 2024; the lowest is £39,700 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £40,500 to £270,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £89,929, so the real change over the whole record is +215.9% — about +4.05% 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: +103.0% in cash against +48.9% 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.

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.

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 Wicklow Drive, Leicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wicklow Drive, Leicester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 293 freehold — 1.0% 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 £53,500 and the median freehold sale £117,000 — a gap of +118.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 9 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.

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.

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 £117,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.15% 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 LE5, 366 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 172 violent, 15 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 44 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 3.56 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.

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 LE5 postcode: 24 primary, 7 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wicklow Drive, Leicester sits below that national figure — -25.7%.

Within Leicester the street ranks 3699 of 5322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-13.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,555 per square metre, across 72 of the 296 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 £377,000. 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.

Wicklow Drive, 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.

Streets nearby

• Scraptoft Lane£180,000 median
• St Saviours Road£90,000 median
• Coleman Road£124,000 median
• Church Road£170,500 median
• Evington Lane£195,000 median
• Green Lane Road£108,000 median
• Prestwold Road£105,000 median
• Cardinals Walk£150,475 median
• Brompton Road£142,751 median
• Forest Road£143,950 median
• Falmouth Road£51,500 median
• Averil Road£137,500 median
• Barbara Avenue£169,975 median
• Mere Road£90,000 median
• Wintersdale Road£180,000 median
• Columbine Road£120,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 86 Wicklow Drive8 sales
• 116 Wicklow Drive5 sales
• 43 Wicklow Drive5 sales
• 2 Wicklow Drive5 sales
• 9 Wicklow Drive5 sales
• 137 Wicklow Drive4 sales
• 180 Wicklow Drive4 sales
• 42 Wicklow Drive4 sales
• 140 Wicklow Drive4 sales
• 185 Wicklow Drive4 sales
• 135 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 191 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 98 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 84 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 136 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 36 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 13 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 7 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 52 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 110 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 177 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 93 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 171 Wicklow Drive3 sales
• 87 Wicklow Drive3 sales

Back to Leicester house prices.

What is the average house price in Wicklow Drive, Leicester?

The median price paid in Wicklow Drive, Leicester across every sale on the register is £117,000. 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 Wicklow Drive, Leicester?

296 sales are on record for Wicklow Drive, Leicester, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wicklow Drive, Leicester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +103.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +48.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wicklow Drive, Leicester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, 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 Wicklow Drive, Leicester?

£1,555 per square metre, from the 72 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 15 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, “Wicklow Drive, 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.