Brendon Avenue, Luton house prices are built from 228 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 3 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,000. Across the 10 years from 2008 to 2018 the median moved +64.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.6%.
Median price paid
£98,000
Change in cash, 2008–2018
+64.5%
Change in real terms
+30.6%
Median per m²
£1,209
HM Land Registry228 sales82 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Brendon Avenue, Luton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Brendon Avenue, Luton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2018. 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 | £35,750 | £79,382 |
| 2000s | 9 | £98,000 | £178,527 |
| 2010s | 5 | £172,500 | £243,225 |
The highest yearly median on record for Brendon Avenue, Luton is £210,000 in 2015; the lowest is £32,000 in 1996. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £35,750 to £187,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £79,382, so the real change over the whole record is +214.8% — about +5.11% 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: +64.5% in cash against +30.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 3 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 136 | 5 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 56 | 7 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 108 | 22 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 58 | 9 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £197,000 | £207,291 |
| 54 | 9 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 142 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 8 | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 68 | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 28 | 31 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £135,057 |
| 129 | 12 May 2023 | Terraced | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 120 | 31 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £184,995 | £214,333 |
| 82 | 30 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £240,986 |
| 38 | 22 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £203,000 | £235,193 |
| 6 | 21 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 130 | 29 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| 118 | 8 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £118,763 |
| 63 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 144 | 26 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 56 | 30 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £226,584 |
| 31 | 9 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| 34 | 24 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 41 | 15 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £260,000 | £336,639 |
| 77 | 9 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £158,000 | £206,660 |
| 29 | 9 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £150,417 |
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 Brendon Avenue, Luton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Brendon Avenue | £30,000 (1996) | £230,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 136 Brendon Avenue | £35,250 (1995) | £235,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 56 Brendon Avenue | £101,000 (2004) | £220,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 108 Brendon Avenue | £56,000 (2001) | £165,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 58 Brendon Avenue | £113,000 (2008) | £197,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 54 Brendon Avenue | £115,000 (2007) | £175,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| 142 Brendon Avenue | £34,500 (1995) | £190,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 8 Brendon Avenue | £73,000 (2002) | £170,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 68 Brendon Avenue | £37,750 (1999) | £220,000 (2023) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
| 28 Brendon Avenue | £29,000 (1997) | £125,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 129 Brendon Avenue | £139,000 (2011) | £275,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +2.8% |
| 120 Brendon Avenue | £34,000 (1999) | £184,995 (2022) | +7.6% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Brendon Avenue, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 109 | 47.8% | £105,000 | £28,500 – £235,000 |
| Terraced | 95 | 41.7% | £81,500 | £21,000 – £275,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 10.5% | £105,000 | £39,950 – £178,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Brendon Avenue, Luton
150 of the sales on record are leasehold and 78 freehold — 65.8% 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 £95,000 and the median freehold sale £118,500 — a gap of +24.7%. 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 | 150 | 65.8% | £95,000 |
| Freehold | 78 | 34.2% | £118,500 |
A further 19 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 Brendon Avenue, 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 £98,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.31% 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 LU2, 241 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 4 burglary, 17 vehicle-related and 54 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 0.82 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 Brendon Avenue, 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.
18 state and independent schools have a LU2 postcode: 12 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,655 |
| Queen Elizabeth School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,229 |
| Putteridge High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,193 |
| Stopsley High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,046 |
| St Matthew's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 884 |
| Bushmead Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 720 |
| Putteridge Primary School | Primary | Community school | 607 |
| Wigmore Primary | Primary | Community school | 597 |
| Stopsley Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 479 |
| Ramridge Primary School | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Luton Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Luton Airport DART Station | Metro or underground | 2.2 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Leagrave Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
Section 09
How Brendon Avenue, Luton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Brendon Avenue, Luton sits below that national figure — -37.8%.
Within Luton the street ranks 1288 of 1468 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-27.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,209 per square metre, across 82 of the 228 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 £21,000 to £275,000. 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.
Brendon Avenue, 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
- Hitchin Road£125,000 median
- Handcross Road£85,500 median
- Old Bedford Road£246,750 median
- Chesford Road£146,500 median
- Devon Road£139,998 median
- High Town Road£99,998 median
- Earls Meade£89,995 median
- Crawley Green Road£137,500 median
- Ashcroft Road£173,000 median
- Telscombe Way£150,000 median
- Stockingstone Road£160,000 median
- Ridgway Road£118,000 median
- Richmond Hill£130,000 median
- Midland Road£135,000 median
- Rochford Drive£130,250 median
- Hartley Road£99,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 73 Brendon Avenue6 sales
- 124 Brendon Avenue6 sales
- 122 Brendon Avenue5 sales
- 40 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 56 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 68 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 28 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 120 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 38 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 63 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 77 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 50 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 104 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 131 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 92 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 138 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 4 Brendon Avenue4 sales
- 136 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 54 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 58 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 142 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 82 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 130 Brendon Avenue3 sales
- 34 Brendon Avenue3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Brendon Avenue, Luton?
The median price paid in Brendon Avenue, Luton across every sale on the register is £98,000. 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 Brendon Avenue, Luton?
228 sales are on record for Brendon Avenue, Luton, the most recent completing on 3 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Brendon Avenue, Luton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +64.5% between 2008 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Brendon Avenue, Luton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, set in 2015. 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 Brendon Avenue, Luton?
£1,209 per square metre, from the 82 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 3 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, “Brendon Avenue, 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.