Bishopscote Road, Luton house prices are built from 237 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £108,000. Across the 12 years from 2013 to 2025 the median moved +66.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.8%.
Median price paid
£108,000
Change in cash, 2013–2025
+66.7%
Change in real terms
+16.8%
Median per m²
£1,614
HM Land Registry237 sales47 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Bishopscote Road, Luton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bishopscote Road, Luton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £51,000 | £113,244 |
| 2000s | 8 | £133,000 | £242,287 |
| 2010s | 3 | £177,000 | £249,570 |
| 2020s | 3 | £295,000 | £301,413 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bishopscote Road, Luton is £360,000 in 2021; the lowest is £39,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £295,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,598, so the real change over the whole record is +248.1% — about +4.24% 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: +66.7% in cash against +16.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | 23 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 89 | 16 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 170 | 3 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 158 | 17 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 38 | 9 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 23 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 77 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 37 | 16 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £360,000 | £378,806 |
| 44 | 15 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £480,805 |
| 178 | 1 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 87 | 25 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 69 | 28 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £475,021 |
| 141 | 16 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £306,500 | £355,107 |
| Flat 6 Julia Court | 31 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £137,000 | £158,726 |
| 105 | 29 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 24 | 27 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £377,000 | £476,317 |
| 35 | 24 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 59 | 3 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £435,887 |
| 4 | 21 Jan 2021 | Detached | £383,000 | £483,898 |
| 113 | 22 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 105 | 20 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £198,000 | £256,364 |
| 134 | 7 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 137 | 24 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| 73 | 20 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 48a | 6 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £400,000 | £523,191 |
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 Bishopscote Road, Luton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 Bishopscote Road | £125,000 (2006) | £440,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.5% |
| 89 Bishopscote Road | £52,000 (1995) | £480,000 (2026) | +7.4% | +4.7% |
| 158 Bishopscote Road | £53,000 (1999) | £295,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 38 Bishopscote Road | £190,000 (2012) | £270,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 23 Bishopscote Road | £25,000 (1998) | £410,000 (2025) | +10.9% | +8.0% |
| 178 Bishopscote Road | £81,500 (2001) | £295,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 105 Bishopscote Road | £198,000 (2020) | £350,000 (2021) | +76.8% | +72.5% |
| 24 Bishopscote Road | £220,000 (2007) | £377,000 (2021) | +3.9% | +1.6% |
| 4 Bishopscote Road | £84,000 (1996) | £383,000 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 113 Bishopscote Road | £57,995 (1999) | £240,000 (2020) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 134 Bishopscote Road | £32,995 (1997) | £240,000 (2020) | +9.0% | +6.7% |
| 137 Bishopscote Road | £173,000 (2007) | £245,000 (2020) | +2.7% | +0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bishopscote Road, Luton 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 | 123 | 51.9% | £114,000 | £36,000 – £480,000 |
| Terraced | 67 | 28.3% | £120,000 | £25,000 – £410,000 |
| Detached | 25 | 10.5% | £160,000 | £55,350 – £383,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22 | 9.3% | £45,000 | £17,500 – £137,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bishopscote Road, Luton
25 of the sales on record are leasehold and 212 freehold — 10.5% 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 £65,000 and the median freehold sale £122,250 — a gap of +88.1%. 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 | 25 | 10.5% | £65,000 |
| Freehold | 212 | 89.5% | £122,250 |
A further 8 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 Bishopscote Road, Luton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Central Bedfordshire, 54.5% of 139,601 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,405 | 1.0% |
| B | 28,531 | 20.4% |
| C | 46,180 | 33.1% |
| D | 45,015 | 32.2% |
| E | 14,404 | 10.3% |
| F | 3,286 | 2.4% |
| G | 780 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Central Bedfordshire at £1,250 a month as of Jun 2026 — £864 for a one-bedroom home and £1,374 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £108,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.89% 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 LU3, 237 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 96 violent, 3 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 38 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.81 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 Bishopscote Road, Luton
The 2021 census counted 294,252 residents in Central Bedfordshire across 120,754 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
20 state and independent schools have a LU3 postcode: 15 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icknield High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,452 |
| Denbigh High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,130 |
| Lealands High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,025 |
| Lea Manor High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 916 |
| River Bank Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 793 |
| Icknield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 612 |
| Denbigh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 610 |
| Parklea Primary School | Primary | Community school | 547 |
| The Meads Primary School | Primary | Community school | 513 |
| William Austin Junior School | Primary | Community school | 498 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leagrave Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Luton Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Luton Airport DART Station | Metro or underground | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Bishopscote Road, Luton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bishopscote Road, Luton sits below that national figure — -31.4%.
Within Luton the street ranks 1205 of 1468 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-20.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,614 per square metre, across 47 of the 237 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 £17,500 to £480,000. 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.
Bishopscote Road, Luton sits in Central Bedfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Central Bedfordshire at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,704 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
- Turnpike Drive£205,000 median
- New Bedford Road£148,000 median
- Gardenia Avenue£118,500 median
- Marsh Road£99,000 median
- Fourth Avenue£115,000 median
- Brussels Way£97,748 median
- Third Avenue£124,999 median
- Repton Close£93,000 median
- Lucas Gardens£148,475 median
- Dorrington Close£94,000 median
- Sundon Park Road£147,500 median
- Biscot Road£100,000 median
- Leagrave Road£115,000 median
- Grampian Way£155,000 median
- Limbury Road£150,000 median
- Dexter Close£116,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 168 Bishopscote Road6 sales
- 63 Bishopscote Road5 sales
- 143 Bishopscote Road5 sales
- 89 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 134 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 172 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 135 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 71 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 107 Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 57A Bishopscote Road4 sales
- 133 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 158 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 48A Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 1, JULIA COURT, 127 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 88 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 109 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 78 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 150 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 6 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 57 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 112 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 91 Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 83A Bishopscote Road3 sales
- 6, JULIA COURT, 127 Bishopscote Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bishopscote Road, Luton?
The median price paid in Bishopscote Road, Luton across every sale on the register is £108,000. 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 Bishopscote Road, Luton?
237 sales are on record for Bishopscote Road, Luton, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bishopscote Road, Luton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +66.7% between 2013 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bishopscote Road, Luton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £360,000, set in 2021. 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 Bishopscote Road, Luton?
£1,614 per square metre, from the 47 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 23 Mar 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, “Bishopscote Road, Luton 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.