LS16 house prices are built from 19,786 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £185,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +31.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -5.8%.
Median price paid
£185,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+31.5%
Change in real terms
-5.8%
Median per m²
£2,083
HM Land Registry19,786 sales4,020 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026
Section 01
How LS16 prices moved
The chart tracks the median LS16 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £77,000 | £170,976 |
| 2000s | 10 | £169,000 | £307,868 |
| 2010s | 10 | £210,000 | £296,100 |
| 2020s | 7 | £319,975 | £326,931 |
The highest yearly median on record for LS16 is £351,000 in 2023; the lowest is £67,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £67,000 to £302,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £148,772, so the real change over the whole record is +103.3% — about +2.32% 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: +31.5% in cash against -5.8% 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 2 the LODGE Harrowby Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 49 Silk Mill Avenue | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 8 Welburn Avenue | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £508,000 | £508,000 |
| 114 Carisbrooke Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £427,500 | £427,500 |
| 9 Creskeld Lane | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £495,000 |
| 63 New Adel Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £213,500 | £213,500 |
| 5 Redesdale Gardens | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £159,000 | £159,000 |
| 25 ST CHADS COURT St Chads Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £85,000 |
| 19 Long Meadows | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £711,000 | £711,000 |
| 3 Holt Vale | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 16 Oak Park Mount | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 115 Tinshill Lane | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 24 Long Meadows | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 15 Moseley Beck Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| 14 Wynford Terrace | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 54A Tinshill Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 166 Iveson Drive | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 35 Foxhill Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £173,000 |
| 25 Kirkwood Crescent | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 4 Parkstone Mount | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £224,000 | £224,000 |
| 78 Iveson Drive | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 10 Moseley Wood Drive | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £535,000 | £535,000 |
| 3 Derwent Drive | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 73 Oak Park Lane | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| FLAT 15 ORCHARD COURT St Chads Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £87,000 |
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 LS16 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 2 the LODGE Harrowby Road | £205,000 (2004) | £185,000 (2026) | -0.5% | -3.2% |
| 49 Silk Mill Avenue | £53,000 (2000) | £245,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 114 Carisbrooke Road | £265,000 (2003) | £427,500 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 9 Creskeld Lane | £112,000 (1997) | £495,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 5 Redesdale Gardens | £34,950 (1996) | £159,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 82 Green Lane | £98,000 (2000) | £340,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 25 ST CHADS COURT St Chads Road | £94,950 (2002) | £85,000 (2026) | -0.5% | -3.1% |
| 63 New Adel Lane | £163,000 (2007) | £213,500 (2026) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 3 Holt Vale | £166,000 (2004) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 16 Oak Park Mount | £250,000 (2023) | £285,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 35 Foxhill Court | £99,950 (2002) | £173,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 24 Long Meadows | £339,000 (2007) | £665,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. LS16 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 | 8,962 | 45.3% | £175,000 | £6,930 – £980,000 |
| Detached | 5,725 | 28.9% | £330,000 | £18,000 – £2,300,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3,321 | 16.8% | £111,000 | £6,800 – £710,000 |
| Terraced | 1,778 | 9.0% | £166,000 | £11,250 – £726,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in LS16
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,534 certificates cover LS16, and their median floor area is 82 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 82 m² | about 883 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 116 m² | about 1,249 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 20.6% | 935 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 12.6% | 572 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in LS16
3,412 of the sales on record are leasehold and 16,374 freehold — 17.2% 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 £110,000 and the median freehold sale £215,000 — a gap of +95.5%. 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 | 3,412 | 17.2% | £110,000 |
| Freehold | 16,374 | 82.8% | £215,000 |
| New build | 1,803 | 9.1% | £270,000 |
| Existing home | 17,983 | 90.9% | £178,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +51.3%. 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 796 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 LS16
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Leeds, 41.9% of 434,292 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,837 | 0.4% |
| B | 41,544 | 9.6% |
| C | 138,728 | 31.9% |
| D | 167,040 | 38.5% |
| E | 65,138 | 15.0% |
| F | 14,639 | 3.4% |
| G | 5,366 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Leeds at £1,135 a month as of Jun 2026 — £775 for a one-bedroom home and £1,128 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £185,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.36% 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 LS16, 166 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 13 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 811,956 residents the 2021 census counted in Leeds, that is 0.20 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 LS16
The 2021 census counted 811,956 residents in Leeds across 341,466 households. 57.6% of those households own their home and 42.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a LS16 postcode: 10 primary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Grange Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,576 |
| Lawnswood School | Secondary | Community school | 1,307 |
| Ralph Thoresby School | Secondary | Foundation school | 987 |
| Bramhope Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 431 |
| Ireland Wood Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 386 |
| Cookridge Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 381 |
| Iveson Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 379 |
| Cookridge Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 314 |
| St Chad's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 244 |
| Weetwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 242 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Horsforth Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Kirkstall Forge Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Headingley Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Burley Park Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How LS16 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. LS16 sits above that national figure — +17.5%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,083 per square metre, across 4,020 of the 19,786 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 £6,800 to £2,300,000. 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.
LS16 sits in Leeds, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Leeds at 6.5 times median local earnings of £37,821 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
Sectors inside LS16
- LS16 5£165,000 median
- LS16 6£143,000 median
- LS16 7£182,500 median
- LS16 8£290,000 median
- LS16 9£305,000 median
The closest districts
- LS182.8 km · £175,000
- LS64.2 km · £140,000
- LS175.1 km · £183,500
- LS135.1 km · £104,000
- LS75.5 km · £133,000
- LS126.8 km · £97,500
- LS86.9 km · £122,000
- LS287.1 km · £130,000
This district mostly covers Leeds.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in LS16?
The median price paid in LS16 across every sale on the register is £185,000. 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 LS16?
19,786 sales are on record for LS16, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have LS16 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +31.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -5.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were LS16 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £351,000, 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 LS16?
£2,083 per square metre, from the 4,020 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 17 Jun 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, “LS16 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.