Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard house prices are built from 172 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £221,625. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +50.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.6%.
Median price paid
£221,625
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+50.8%
Change in real terms
+9.6%
Median per m²
£2,345
HM Land Registry172 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 12 May 2026
Section 01
How Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard prices moved
The chart tracks the median Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | £105,000 | £233,150 |
| 2000s | 5 | £195,000 | £355,233 |
| 2010s | 4 | £288,000 | £406,080 |
| 2020s | 1 | £399,500 | £408,185 |
The highest yearly median on record for Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard is £403,000 in 2017; the lowest is £87,000 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £90,000 to £399,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £199,843, so the real change over the whole record is +152.6% — about +3.63% 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: +50.8% in cash against +9.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 12 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £422,000 | £422,000 |
| 81 | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 129 | 2 Oct 2025 | Detached | £485,000 | £495,543 |
| 135 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 108 | 15 Apr 2025 | Detached | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 80 | 19 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £441,940 |
| 76 | 19 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £470,000 | £494,552 |
| 1 | 19 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 49 | 12 Feb 2024 | Detached | £570,000 | £599,776 |
| 44 | 30 Oct 2023 | Detached | £432,500 | £467,299 |
| 71 | 26 Oct 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 105 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 63 | 25 Jun 2021 | Detached | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| 46 | 26 Apr 2021 | Detached | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 41 | 19 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £445,000 | £562,231 |
| 34 | 29 Mar 2021 | Detached | £399,500 | £504,745 |
| 147 | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £398,000 | £502,849 |
| 5 | 26 Feb 2021 | Detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| 54 | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £465,000 | £602,066 |
| 52 | 8 Dec 2020 | Detached | £480,000 | £621,488 |
| 89 | 30 Oct 2020 | Detached | £455,000 | £589,118 |
| 103 | 7 Aug 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £388,500 | £503,017 |
| 93 | 1 Nov 2019 | Detached | £445,000 | £582,050 |
| 7 | 22 Mar 2019 | Detached | £415,000 | £542,811 |
| 60 | 18 Jan 2019 | Detached | £425,000 | £555,891 |
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 Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Harrow Road | £318,500 (2014) | £440,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 129 Harrow Road | £225,000 (2012) | £485,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.0% |
| 135 Harrow Road | £265,000 (2008) | £450,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.2% |
| 76 Harrow Road | £225,000 (2011) | £470,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.8% |
| 49 Harrow Road | £330,000 (2013) | £570,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.0% |
| 71 Harrow Road | £95,500 (1996) | £475,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 63 Harrow Road | £90,000 (1996) | £435,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 46 Harrow Road | £75,500 (1996) | £390,000 (2021) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| 41 Harrow Road | £85,000 (1995) | £445,000 (2021) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| 34 Harrow Road | £113,000 (2002) | £399,500 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.5% |
| 54 Harrow Road | £278,000 (2014) | £465,000 (2020) | +9.0% | +7.1% |
| 52 Harrow Road | £138,000 (1999) | £480,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard 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 | 97 | 56.4% | £244,000 | £75,500 – £570,000 |
| Terraced | 41 | 23.8% | £195,000 | £85,000 – £470,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 18.0% | £142,500 | £79,000 – £422,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 1.7% | £155,000 | £29,000 – £388,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 172 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 172 | 100.0% | £221,625 |
A further 2 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 Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £221,625 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.99% 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 LU7, 170 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 58 violent, 4 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 28 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.31 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 Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
25 state and independent schools have a LU7 postcode: 18 primary, 4 middle deemed secondary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vandyke Upper School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,517 |
| The Cottesloe School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,190 |
| Cedars Upper School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,135 |
| Linslade School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 721 |
| Greenleas School | Primary | Community school | 664 |
| Brooklands Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 598 |
| Leighton Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Community school | 597 |
| The Mary Bassett Lower School | Primary | Community school | 378 |
| Leedon Lower School | Primary | Community school | 368 |
| Southcott Lower School | Primary | Community school | 312 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leighton Buzzard Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Cheddington Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Fenny Stratford Rail Station | Rail | 10.9 km |
| Bletchley Rail Station | Rail | 11.0 km |
Section 09
How Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard sits above that national figure — +40.7%.
Within Leighton Buzzard the street ranks 371 of 707 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £195,000 (+13.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,345 per square metre, across 32 of the 172 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 £29,000 to £570,000. 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.
Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard sits in Buckinghamshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 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
- Bideford Green£167,500 median
- Stanbridge Road£156,000 median
- Leighton Road£176,000 median
- Vandyke Road£150,000 median
- Marley Fields£126,288 median
- Grasmere Way£129,750 median
- Hockliffe Road£158,500 median
- High Street£218,750 median
- Wing Road£164,700 median
- Windsor Road£245,950 median
- Johnson Drive£189,995 median
- Meadow Way£127,750 median
- The Wharf£169,045 median
- Heath Road£228,750 median
- Plantation Road£192,500 median
- Church Street£162,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 71 Harrow Road6 sales
- 92 Harrow Road4 sales
- 101 Harrow Road4 sales
- 31 Harrow Road4 sales
- 131 Harrow Road4 sales
- 85 Harrow Road4 sales
- 63 Harrow Road3 sales
- 41 Harrow Road3 sales
- 34 Harrow Road3 sales
- 89 Harrow Road3 sales
- 103 Harrow Road3 sales
- 74 Harrow Road3 sales
- 73 Harrow Road3 sales
- 27 Harrow Road3 sales
- 26 Harrow Road3 sales
- 123 Harrow Road3 sales
- 95 Harrow Road3 sales
- 75 Harrow Road3 sales
- 45 Harrow Road3 sales
- 81 Harrow Road2 sales
- 129 Harrow Road2 sales
- 135 Harrow Road2 sales
- 76 Harrow Road2 sales
- 49 Harrow Road2 sales
Back to Leighton Buzzard house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard?
The median price paid in Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard across every sale on the register is £221,625. 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 Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard?
172 sales are on record for Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard, the most recent completing on 12 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.8% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £403,000, set in 2017. 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 Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard?
£2,345 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 12 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, “Harrow Road, Leighton Buzzard 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.