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South Wigston market report LE18 3, Wigston
The standing LE18 3 (South Wigston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,923 registered sales in LE18 3 (Wigston) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LE18 3 (Wigston) sold for £270,000 in 2026, the median of 49 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £301,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,400 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,923 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 LE18 3 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 3 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 LE18 3 prices, from the sold record
49 sales were registered in LE18 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £301,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in LE18 3
Per square metre, LE18 3 homes have averaged around £3,400 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LE18 3 5% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LE18 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £273,800 | £280,347 | 124 |
| 2024 | £316,500 | £336,505 | 158 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 151 |
| 2022 | £316,000 | £370,546 | 231 |
| 2021 | £302,500 | £383,004 | 258 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 158 |
| 2019 | £286,000 | £374,878 | 191 |
| 2018 | £228,000 | £303,928 | 150 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 117 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 145 |
| 2015 | £162,900 | £230,178 | 135 |
| 2014 | £151,500 | £214,929 | 124 |
| 2013 | £141,500 | £203,604 | 110 |
| 2012 | £145,100 | £213,569 | 120 |
| 2011 | £139,200 | £210,138 | 100 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 82 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 86 |
| 2008 | £137,500 | £225,392 | 73 |
| 2007 | £153,000 | £259,531 | 185 |
| 2006 | £149,700 | £259,860 | 220 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 184 |
| 2004 | £137,000 | £248,819 | 153 |
| 2003 | £123,400 | £227,333 | 171 |
| 2002 | £85,500 | £160,868 | 202 |
| 2001 | £71,000 | £136,494 | 185 |
| 2000 | £63,600 | £124,815 | 185 |
| 1999 | £58,100 | £115,790 | 214 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 192 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 167 |
| 1996 | £48,400 | £102,073 | 174 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 129 |
In cash terms the typical LE18 3 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 153%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE18 3 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 (+44.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−13.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE18 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.2% | −6.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in LE18 3
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.
LE18 3 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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 LE18 3 market
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around LE18 3
LE18 3 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 £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,024 a month (£12,288 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
LE18 3 (South Wigston): the questions that come up
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What happens to LE18 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in LE18 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LE18 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LE prices by size
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. 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 LE18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LE18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE18 1 | £269,800 | 46 |
| LE18 2 | £250,000 | 33 |
| 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.
Selling a home in LE18 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE18 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE18 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE18 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual LE18 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.