Sold Price History


Bishopscote Road, Luton house prices

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.

Bishopscote Road, Luton house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£51,000£113,244
2000s8£133,000£242,287
2010s3£177,000£249,570
2020s3£295,000£301,413
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
13323 Mar 2026Semi-detached£440,000£440,000
8916 Jan 2026Semi-detached£480,000£480,000
1703 Nov 2025Terraced£275,000£280,978
15817 Oct 2025Terraced£295,000£301,413
389 May 2025Semi-detached£270,000£275,870
2328 Mar 2025Terraced£410,000£418,913
777 Mar 2025Semi-detached£400,000£408,696
3716 Dec 2024Terraced£360,000£378,806
4415 Dec 2023Semi-detached£445,000£480,805
1781 Jun 2023Semi-detached£295,000£318,736
8725 Nov 2022Semi-detached£300,000£347,576
6928 Oct 2022Semi-detached£410,000£475,021
14116 Sep 2022Semi-detached£306,500£355,107
Flat 6 Julia Court31 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£137,000£158,726
10529 Oct 2021Semi-detached£350,000£442,204
2427 Oct 2021Semi-detached£377,000£476,317
3524 Jun 2021Terraced£360,000£454,839
593 Jun 2021Semi-detached£345,000£435,887
421 Jan 2021Detached£383,000£483,898
11322 Dec 2020Semi-detached£240,000£310,744
10520 Nov 2020Semi-detached£198,000£256,364
1347 Aug 2020Terraced£240,000£310,744
13724 Jan 2020Semi-detached£245,000£317,218
7320 Jan 2020Semi-detached£325,000£420,799
48a6 Nov 2019Terraced£400,000£523,191
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal 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%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

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 typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached12351.9%£114,000£36,000 – £480,000
Terraced6728.3%£120,000£25,000 – £410,000
Detached2510.5%£160,000£55,350 – £383,000
Flat or maisonette229.3%£45,000£17,500 – £137,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold2510.5%£65,000
Freehold21289.5%£122,250
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

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 bandCertificatesShare
A1,4051.0%
B28,53120.4%
C46,18033.1%
D45,01532.2%
E14,40410.3%
F3,2862.4%
G7800.6%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Central Bedfordshire.

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Icknield High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,452
Denbigh High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,130
Lealands High SchoolSecondaryFoundation school1,025
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondaryAcademy sponsor led916
River Bank Primary SchoolPrimaryFree schools793
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school612
Denbigh Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school610
Parklea Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school547
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school513
William Austin Junior SchoolPrimaryCommunity school498
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Leagrave Rail StationRail1.2 km
Luton Rail StationRail3.5 km
Luton Airport Parkway Rail StationRail5.2 km
Luton Airport DART StationMetro or underground5.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Luton house prices.

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.