Simpson Close, Luton house prices are built from 212 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £63,748. Across the 10 years from 1998 to 2008 the median moved +65.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +34.3%.
Median price paid
£63,748
Change in cash, 1998–2008
+65.8%
Change in real terms
+34.3%
HM Land Registry212 salesLatest sale 30 Jun 2025
Section 01
How Simpson Close, Luton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Simpson Close, Luton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2008. 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 | 4 | £40,000 | £88,819 |
| 2000s | 8 | £83,500 | £152,112 |
The highest yearly median on record for Simpson Close, Luton is £107,000 in 2007; the lowest is £39,995 in 1997. Across the full 13-year record the cash median has moved from £47,495 to £99,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £103,028, so the real change over the whole record is +62.1% — about +4.11% 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: +65.8% in cash against +34.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 30 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £278,500 | £284,554 |
| 56 | 10 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £258,500 | £272,004 |
| 7 | 1 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £142,052 |
| 18 | 21 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £132,000 | £142,621 |
| 36 | 18 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £292,000 | £338,307 |
| 43 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 28 | 15 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £280,000 | £324,404 |
| 52 | 11 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £237,000 | £299,435 |
| 32 | 4 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| 21 | 19 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £160,881 |
| 61 | 25 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £187,041 |
| 26 | 30 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| 62 | 15 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £299,858 |
| 60 | 11 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £242,000 | £322,514 |
| 32 | 24 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £233,500 | £317,794 |
| 5 | 17 Jun 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £177,297 |
| 68 | 13 May 2016 | Semi-detached | £197,000 | £275,020 |
| 29 | 13 Nov 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £112,000 | £157,920 |
| 63 | 12 Jun 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £109,000 | £153,690 |
| 58 | 8 May 2015 | Semi-detached | £176,000 | £248,160 |
| 2 | 18 Sep 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £117,620 |
| 15 | 29 Aug 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £99,500 | £142,721 |
| 65 | 2 May 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £99,995 | £143,431 |
| 28 | 18 Sep 2013 | Terraced | £137,500 | £200,491 |
| 6 | 24 Jul 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £89,000 | £129,772 |
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 Simpson Close, Luton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 Simpson Close | £59,995 (1998) | £278,500 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 56 Simpson Close | £59,500 (1997) | £258,500 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 7 Simpson Close | £39,995 (1998) | £135,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 18 Simpson Close | £36,995 (1997) | £132,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 36 Simpson Close | £54,995 (1996) | £292,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 43 Simpson Close | £39,995 (1997) | £160,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 28 Simpson Close | £54,750 (1997) | £280,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 52 Simpson Close | £58,995 (1997) | £237,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 32 Simpson Close | £54,995 (1996) | £245,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 21 Simpson Close | £37,500 (1997) | £123,000 (2019) | +5.5% | +3.3% |
| 61 Simpson Close | £39,995 (1997) | £143,000 (2019) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 26 Simpson Close | £55,750 (1996) | £210,000 (2018) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Simpson Close, 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 | 147 | 69.3% | £50,500 | £32,000 – £160,000 |
| Semi-detached | 48 | 22.6% | £81,000 | £54,750 – £292,000 |
| Terraced | 17 | 8.0% | £125,000 | £51,500 – £280,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Simpson Close, Luton
147 of the sales on record are leasehold and 65 freehold — 69.3% 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 £50,500 and the median freehold sale £83,500 — a gap of +65.3%. 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 | 147 | 69.3% | £50,500 |
| Freehold | 65 | 30.7% | £83,500 |
| New build | 67 | 31.6% | £39,995 |
| Existing home | 145 | 68.4% | £84,995 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.9%. 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 13 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 Simpson Close, 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 £63,748 here, that rent is a gross yield of 23.53% 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 LU4, 289 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 139 violent, 7 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 46 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times busier.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.98 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 Simpson Close, 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.
17 state and independent schools have a LU4 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chalk Hills Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,644 |
| Challney High School for Boys | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,197 |
| Challney High School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,062 |
| Downside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 1,015 |
| Beech Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 888 |
| Beechwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 873 |
| Chantry Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 631 |
| Maidenhall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 628 |
| Leagrave Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 457 |
| Southfield Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 405 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leagrave Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Luton Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
| Luton Airport DART Station | Metro or underground | 6.9 km |
Section 09
How Simpson Close, Luton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Simpson Close, Luton sits below that national figure — -59.5%.
Within Luton the street ranks 1446 of 1468 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £135,000 (-52.8%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £32,000 to £292,000. 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.
Simpson Close, 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
- Dunstable Road£122,500 median
- Beechwood Road£123,000 median
- Rodeheath£83,500 median
- Connaught Road£110,500 median
- Morgan Close£160,000 median
- Coverdale£84,995 median
- Coltsfoot Green£99,950 median
- Swan Mead£102,000 median
- Poynters Road£148,000 median
- Selbourne Road£109,945 median
- Butely Road£144,000 median
- Bradley Road£130,000 median
- Browning Road£125,500 median
- Oakley Road£178,000 median
- Villiers Close£120,000 median
- Vincent Road£86,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Simpson Close6 sales
- 32 Simpson Close6 sales
- 29 Simpson Close6 sales
- 23 Simpson Close6 sales
- 68 Simpson Close5 sales
- 28 Simpson Close5 sales
- 52 Simpson Close5 sales
- 61 Simpson Close5 sales
- 60 Simpson Close5 sales
- 5 Simpson Close5 sales
- 58 Simpson Close5 sales
- 15 Simpson Close5 sales
- 37 Simpson Close5 sales
- 77 Simpson Close5 sales
- 34 Simpson Close5 sales
- 56 Simpson Close4 sales
- 36 Simpson Close4 sales
- 43 Simpson Close4 sales
- 26 Simpson Close4 sales
- 63 Simpson Close4 sales
- 70 Simpson Close4 sales
- 51 Simpson Close4 sales
- 57 Simpson Close4 sales
- 2 Simpson Close3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Simpson Close, Luton?
The median price paid in Simpson Close, Luton across every sale on the register is £63,748. 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 Simpson Close, Luton?
212 sales are on record for Simpson Close, Luton, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Simpson Close, Luton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +65.8% between 1998 and 2008. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +34.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Simpson Close, Luton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £107,000, set in 2007. 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 Simpson Close, Luton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 30 Jun 2025. 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, “Simpson Close, 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.