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East Leake market report LE12 7, Loughborough
The standing LE12 7 (East Leake) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,865 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE12 7 (Loughborough) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in LE12 7 (Loughborough) sold for £251,600 in 2026, the median of 128 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £267,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,865 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like LE12 7 is a single group of streets within LE12 (Loughborough), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LE12 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's LE12 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for LE12 7 is £251,600, taken from 128 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £267,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in LE12 7
Per square metre, LE12 7 homes have averaged around £3,120 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LE12 7 trades 12% below the country as a whole.
A typical LE12 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £251,600 | £251,600 | 128 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 332 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 307 |
| 2023 | £258,200 | £283,699 | 354 |
| 2022 | £259,000 | £303,707 | 438 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 459 |
| 2020 | £206,200 | £267,549 | 282 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 375 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 410 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 377 |
| 2016 | £172,000 | £240,630 | 379 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 392 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 346 |
| 2013 | £141,000 | £202,885 | 305 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 263 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 215 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 230 |
| 2009 | £129,500 | £208,172 | 213 |
| 2008 | £139,800 | £229,162 | 214 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 446 |
| 2006 | £138,000 | £239,550 | 536 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 428 |
| 2004 | £131,000 | £237,922 | 460 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 506 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 569 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 454 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 371 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 409 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 458 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 487 |
| 1996 | £51,200 | £107,979 | 424 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 298 |
In cash terms the typical LE12 7 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £251,600 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 131%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE12 7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+32.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE12 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in LE12 7
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 128 sales completed in LE12 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 471 sales a year before the financial crisis and 312 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the LE12 7 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the LE12 district median, LE12 7 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of LE12 7
For renting purposes LE12 7 sits in Charnwood. The ONS average private rent there is £955 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £674 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,468, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Charnwood
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£955 a month is £11,460 a year, which against the £251,600 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on LE12 7 (East Leake)
Is LE12 7 (East Leake) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE12 7 (East Leake)?
Are property prices falling in LE12 7 (East Leake)?
Will LE12 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in LE12 today
The live side of the market holds 332 homes at the moment, listed by 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE12 district, not just LE12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Charles Street, Sileby, Loughborough,...
- Sharpley Drive, East Leake, Loughborough
- Newton Close, Barrow Upon Soar, LE12, Loughborough
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LE12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in LE
Real sold prices by size across the LE area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £285,000 | £380,000 (+33%) | £560,000 (+47%) | £795,000 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £242,000 (+15%) | £282,000 (+17%) | £360,000 (+28%) | £500,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £183,000 | £205,000 (+12%) | £243,500 (+19%) | £310,000 (+27%) | £402,500 (+30%) |
| Flat | £125,000 | £152,750 (+22%) | £210,000 (+37%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LE area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LE12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE12 5 | £355,000 | 38 |
| LE12 6 | £300,000 | 83 |
| LE12 8 | £330,000 | 91 |
| LE12 9 | £230,500 | 126 |
Zoom out to the full LE12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LE12 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE12 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE12 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE12 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LE12 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LE12 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LE12 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.