The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard house prices

The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard house prices are built from 306 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 20 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £169,045. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +11.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.1%.

HM Land Registry306 sales81 with floor areaLatest sale 20 May 2026

The chart tracks the median The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 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.

The highest yearly median on record for The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard is £245,000 in 2025; the lowest is £135,000 in 2011. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £168,145 to £227,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £299,349, so the real change over the whole record is -24.0% — about -1.36% 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: +11.5% in cash against -20.1% 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 The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

306 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.5%. 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 16 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 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.

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 £169,045 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.48% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard sits above that national figure — +7.3%.

Within Leighton Buzzard the street ranks 513 of 707 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £195,000 (-13.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,654 per square metre, across 81 of the 306 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 £300,000. 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.

The Wharf, 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.

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
• Heath Road£228,750 median
• Plantation Road£192,500 median
• Church Street£162,500 median
• Church Road£193,250 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 123, WEST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 92, WEST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 65, EAST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 157, WEST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 126, WEST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 82, WEST DOCK the Wharf4 sales
• 16 the Wharf4 sales
• 88, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 13 the Wharf3 sales
• 68, EAST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 81, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 100, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 133, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 129, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 52, EAST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 165, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 85, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 78, EAST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 106, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 161, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 75, EAST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 144, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 127, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales
• 96, WEST DOCK the Wharf3 sales

Back to Leighton Buzzard house prices.

What is the average house price in The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard?

The median price paid in The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard across every sale on the register is £169,045. 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 The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard?

306 sales are on record for The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard, the most recent completing on 20 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +11.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £245,000, 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 The Wharf, Leighton Buzzard?

£2,654 per square metre, from the 81 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 20 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, “The Wharf, 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.