Hartley Road, Luton house prices are built from 251 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,995. Across the 10 years from 2007 to 2017 the median moved +41.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.7%.
Median price paid
£99,995
Change in cash, 2007–2017
+41.4%
Change in real terms
+10.7%
Median per m²
£1,574
HM Land Registry251 sales101 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Hartley Road, Luton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Hartley Road, Luton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2017. 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 | £37,750 | £83,823 |
| 2000s | 9 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 6 | £130,000 | £183,300 |
The highest yearly median on record for Hartley Road, Luton is £188,000 in 2017; the lowest is £32,000 in 1995. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £32,000 to £188,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,055, so the real change over the whole record is +260.1% — about +6.00% 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: +41.4% in cash against +10.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £243,000 | £243,000 |
| 58 | 30 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £221,900 | £221,900 |
| 99 | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 94 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 86 | 16 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 73 | 22 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 75 | 15 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 118 | 18 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £187,500 | £217,235 |
| 100 | 2 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 96 | 27 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 26 | 29 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £192,500 | £249,242 |
| 47 | 5 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £170,000 | £222,356 |
| 65 | 14 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £204,000 | £266,827 |
| 50a | 4 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £222,356 |
| 80 | 14 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £205,000 | £273,204 |
| 52 | 21 Jun 2018 | Detached | £220,000 | £293,195 |
| 37 | 1 May 2018 | Terraced | £217,000 | £289,197 |
| 38 | 31 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £227,000 | £308,948 |
| 64 | 7 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £208,500 | £283,769 |
| 18a | 19 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £132,500 | £180,333 |
| 30 | 31 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £188,000 | £255,869 |
| 11 | 12 Jan 2017 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £238,176 |
| 93 | 22 Dec 2016 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £300,149 |
| 64 | 2 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £202,000 | £282,000 |
| 32 | 17 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £180,000 | £251,287 |
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 Hartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Hartley Road | £45,000 (1999) | £243,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 58 Hartley Road | £96,000 (2002) | £221,900 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 99 Hartley Road | £36,000 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 94 Hartley Road | £30,000 (1998) | £190,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 86 Hartley Road | £44,000 (1999) | £230,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 73 Hartley Road | £24,000 (1996) | £245,000 (2023) | +9.0% | +6.2% |
| 118 Hartley Road | £41,500 (1999) | £187,500 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.2% |
| 100 Hartley Road | £58,500 (2000) | £185,000 (2021) | +5.6% | +3.4% |
| 96 Hartley Road | £39,750 (1998) | £190,000 (2020) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
| 26 Hartley Road | £117,000 (2005) | £192,500 (2020) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 47 Hartley Road | £32,000 (1997) | £170,000 (2019) | +7.9% | +5.5% |
| 65 Hartley Road | £52,500 (1999) | £204,000 (2019) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 228 | 90.8% | £97,500 | £18,500 – £245,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 6.8% | £96,000 | £20,000 – £230,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.2% | £124,000 | £66,500 – £220,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 1.2% | £121,500 | £106,000 – £132,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Hartley Road, Luton
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 248 freehold — 1.2% 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 £121,500 and the median freehold sale £97,650 — a gap of -19.6%. 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 | 1.2% | £121,500 |
| Freehold | 248 | 98.8% | £97,650 |
A further 39 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 Hartley 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 £99,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.00% 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 Hartley 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.
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 Hartley Road, Luton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hartley Road, Luton sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Luton the street ranks 1273 of 1468 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-25.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,574 per square metre, across 101 of the 251 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 £18,500 to £245,000. 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.
Hartley 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
- 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
- Clarendon Road£89,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 118 Hartley Road5 sales
- 18 Hartley Road5 sales
- 16 Hartley Road5 sales
- 73 Hartley Road4 sales
- 96 Hartley Road4 sales
- 80 Hartley Road4 sales
- 64 Hartley Road4 sales
- 30 Hartley Road4 sales
- 136 Hartley Road4 sales
- 126 Hartley Road4 sales
- 49 Hartley Road4 sales
- 106 Hartley Road4 sales
- 142 Hartley Road4 sales
- 87 Hartley Road4 sales
- 95 Hartley Road4 sales
- 29 Hartley Road4 sales
- 82 Hartley Road4 sales
- 92 Hartley Road4 sales
- 122 Hartley Road4 sales
- 110 Hartley Road4 sales
- 14 Hartley Road3 sales
- 58 Hartley Road3 sales
- 26 Hartley Road3 sales
- 47 Hartley Road3 sales
Back to Luton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Hartley Road, Luton?
The median price paid in Hartley Road, Luton across every sale on the register is £99,995. 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 Hartley Road, Luton?
251 sales are on record for Hartley Road, Luton, the most recent completing on 8 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Hartley Road, Luton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +41.4% between 2007 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Hartley Road, Luton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £188,000, set in 2017. 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 Hartley Road, Luton?
£1,574 per square metre, from the 101 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 8 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, “Hartley 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.