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Arthingworth market report LE16 8, Market Harborough
The standing LE16 8 (Arthingworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,294 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LE16 8 (Market Harborough) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical LE16 8 (Market Harborough) home changed hands for £405,000 in 2026 (median of 56 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £434,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,294 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LE16 8 is one sector of LE16 (Market Harborough): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LE16 8 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.
What LE16 8 homes really sell for
The LE16 8 median stands at £405,000 for 2026, built from 56 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £434,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
LE16 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, LE16 8 homes have averaged around £3,750 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LE16 8 42% above the national figure.
A typical LE16 8 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 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 189 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 201 |
| 2023 | £392,500 | £431,262 | 161 |
| 2022 | £423,500 | £496,602 | 198 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 250 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 144 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 171 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 188 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 203 |
| 2016 | £296,200 | £414,387 | 204 |
| 2015 | £282,000 | £398,466 | 241 |
| 2014 | £252,500 | £358,215 | 260 |
| 2013 | £221,500 | £318,716 | 164 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 128 |
| 2011 | £231,500 | £349,476 | 126 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 123 |
| 2009 | £229,000 | £368,119 | 114 |
| 2008 | £222,500 | £364,724 | 135 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 235 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 237 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 194 |
| 2004 | £216,800 | £393,751 | 214 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 243 |
| 2002 | £151,200 | £284,481 | 298 |
| 2001 | £124,500 | £239,345 | 210 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 212 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 231 |
| 1998 | £83,900 | £169,358 | 252 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 296 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 259 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical LE16 8 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 162%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LE16 8 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 2000 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in LE16 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
LE16 8 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 161 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around LE16 8
LE16 8 falls under Harborough, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £962 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £706 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,579 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Harborough
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £405,000 median sold price, £962 a month is £11,544 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the LE16 8 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE16 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within LE16, this sector trades 22% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on LE16 8 (Arthingworth)
How much did a house sell for in LE16 8 (Arthingworth)?
Are property prices falling in LE16 8 (Arthingworth)?
Is LE16 8 (Arthingworth) a good place to buy a house?
Are LE16 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
LE16's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 261 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE16 district, not just LE16 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Butler Gardens, Market Harborough
- Rushton Road, Wilbarston, Market Harborough
- Sceptre Road, Market Harborough
"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 LE16 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in LE
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LE area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the LE area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LE16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LE16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE16 7 | £340,000 | 87 |
| LE16 9 | £307,500 | 106 |
Zoom out to the full LE16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LE16 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE16 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE16 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE16 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LE16 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE16 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LE16 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.