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South Wigston market report LE18 4, Wigston
The LE18 4 (South Wigston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,747 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LE18 4 (Wigston) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LE18 4 (Wigston) is £185,000, from 30 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £201,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,747 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LE18 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LE18 (Wigston). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LE18 4 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.
The going rate for a home in LE18 4
The 2026 median for LE18 4 is £185,000, taken from 30 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £201,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in LE18 4
Per square metre, LE18 4 homes have averaged around £2,900 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 LE18 4 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LE18 4 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £216,500 | £221,677 | 105 |
| 2024 | £217,500 | £231,247 | 106 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 87 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 147 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 165 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 105 |
| 2019 | £161,000 | £211,032 | 124 |
| 2018 | £158,000 | £210,617 | 129 |
| 2017 | £138,500 | £188,900 | 118 |
| 2016 | £146,200 | £204,535 | 182 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 185 |
| 2014 | £117,500 | £166,694 | 171 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 119 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 88 |
| 2011 | £106,000 | £160,019 | 75 |
| 2010 | £111,000 | £174,077 | 93 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 83 |
| 2008 | £117,500 | £192,607 | 99 |
| 2007 | £122,200 | £207,285 | 186 |
| 2006 | £112,500 | £195,286 | 209 |
| 2005 | £108,000 | £192,196 | 164 |
| 2004 | £106,000 | £192,517 | 225 |
| 2003 | £81,200 | £149,590 | 272 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 259 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 253 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 209 |
| 1999 | £41,000 | £81,711 | 169 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 147 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 172 |
| 1996 | £37,500 | £79,086 | 149 |
| 1995 | £38,600 | £83,910 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical LE18 4 home went from £38,600 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 120%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LE18 4 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 (+32.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE18 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.5% | −16.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −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.
Transaction volumes
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 4 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 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.
Reading the LE18 4 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. 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 LE18 district median, LE18 4 sits 27% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around LE18 4
The local authority for LE18 4 is Oadby and Wigston, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,024 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £733 a month here against £1,562 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oadby and Wigston
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £185,000 median sold price, £1,024 a month is £12,288 a year, a gross yield of 6.6%: 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.
LE18 4 (South Wigston): the questions that come up
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Where do LE18 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
LE18's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in LE: the cost
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.
LE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £270,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full LE18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LE18 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LE18 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LE18 4.
Go deeper
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See every individual LE18 4 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.