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South Wigston market report LE18 2, Wigston
The LE18 2 (South Wigston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,643 HM Land Registry entries for LE18 2 (Wigston), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LE18 2 (Wigston) came in at £250,000, out of 33 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £265,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,643 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like LE18 2 is a single group of streets within LE18 (Wigston), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LE18 2 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.
LE18 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LE18 2 home went for £250,000. The mean is £265,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LE18 2
Per square metre, LE18 2 homes have averaged around £2,930 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 LE18 2 12% below the national figure.
A typical LE18 2 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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £247,000 | £252,907 | 95 |
| 2024 | £232,500 | £247,195 | 100 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 83 |
| 2022 | £232,500 | £272,633 | 120 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 124 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 97 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 116 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 97 |
| 2017 | £176,900 | £241,274 | 130 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 145 |
| 2015 | £156,500 | £221,135 | 124 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 127 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 95 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 85 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 98 |
| 2010 | £127,200 | £199,482 | 68 |
| 2009 | £118,200 | £190,008 | 88 |
| 2008 | £133,000 | £218,015 | 71 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 127 |
| 2006 | £135,200 | £234,690 | 164 |
| 2005 | £126,000 | £224,229 | 91 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 161 |
| 2003 | £105,500 | £194,357 | 138 |
| 2002 | £83,200 | £156,540 | 178 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 151 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 134 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 152 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 118 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 121 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 124 |
| 1995 | £45,800 | £99,562 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical LE18 2 home went from £45,800 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LE18 2 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 2002 (+38.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in LE18 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
LE18 2 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of LE18 2
LE18 2 falls under Oadby and Wigston, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,024 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £733 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,562, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Oadby and Wigston
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,024 a month (£12,288 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the LE18 2 market
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE18 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about LE18 2 (South Wigston)
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Are LE18 2 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in LE18 right now
The live side of the market holds 188 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE18 district, not just LE18 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every LE18 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LE: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the LE area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LE18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE18 1 | £269,800 | 46 |
| LE18 3 | £270,000 | 49 |
| LE18 4 | £185,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full LE18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE18 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LE18 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LE18 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LE18 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LE18 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LE18 2.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every LE18 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.