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South Wigston market report LE18, Wigston
The LE18 (South Wigston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 17,071 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE18 (Wigston) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LE18 (Wigston) came in at £255,000, out of 158 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £265,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 17,071 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district LE18 covering Wigston, South Wigston, Kilby sits in Wigston. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LE18 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 LE18 homes really sell for
Take the 158 registered 2026 sales in LE18 and the middle price, the median, is £255,000. The mean lands at £265,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in LE18
Per square metre, LE18 homes have averaged around £3,150 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LE18 runs 11% below it.
The price of a typical LE18 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 158 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 430 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 464 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 424 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 603 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 703 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 460 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 551 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 495 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 483 |
| 2016 | £167,800 | £234,754 | 610 |
| 2015 | £157,000 | £221,841 | 571 |
| 2014 | £143,000 | £202,870 | 535 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 428 |
| 2012 | £131,000 | £192,816 | 376 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 349 |
| 2010 | £137,000 | £214,851 | 358 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 354 |
| 2008 | £131,800 | £216,048 | 323 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 640 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 740 |
| 2005 | £129,000 | £229,568 | 586 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 692 |
| 2003 | £107,000 | £197,120 | 726 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 805 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 720 |
| 2000 | £59,500 | £116,769 | 651 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 681 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 590 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 590 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 535 |
| 1995 | £44,500 | £96,736 | 440 |
In cash terms the typical LE18 home went from £44,500 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE18 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 (+33.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE18 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,000 against £97,500 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, LE18
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £350,000 | 37 | 3,050 |
| Semi-detached | £252,500 | 87 | 8,531 |
| Terraced | £185,500 | 28 | 4,852 |
| Flats | £97,500 | 6 | 638 |
Sales activity in LE18
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 330 sales completed in LE18. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 695 sales a year before the financial crisis and 416 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 LE18
LE18 falls under Oadby and Wigston, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £255,000 median sold price, £1,024 a month is £12,288 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Common questions on LE18 (South Wigston)
How much did a house sell for in LE18 (South Wigston)?
Are property prices falling in LE18 (South Wigston)?
Is LE18 (South Wigston) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LE18 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in LE18 now
Everything above is what homes in LE18 sold for. The live side of the market holds 188 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the LE18 median sold price.
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" 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LE prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LE area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LE18 ranks 5 of 21 in the LE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the LE area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LE18, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE18 1 | £269,800 | 46 |
| LE18 2 | £250,000 | 33 |
| LE18 3 | £270,000 | 49 |
| LE18 4 | £185,000 | 30 |
How LE18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LE16 | £332,500 | +0% |
| LE14 | £324,000 | -3% |
| LE17 | £315,000 | -5% |
| LE7 | £312,200 | +7% |
| LE15 | £301,200 | +8% |
| LE65 | £292,500 | -1% |
| LE8 | £290,000 | +4% |
| LE19 | £286,500 | +9% |
| LE6 | £278,000 | +11% |
| LE5 | £276,500 | +15% |
| LE12 | £275,000 | +8% |
| LE4 | £265,000 | +15% |
| LE9 | £265,000 | +6% |
| LE2 | £257,000 | +5% |
| LE18 (this report) | £255,000 | +11% |
| LE10 | £254,000 | +8% |
| LE3 | £242,200 | +13% |
| LE67 | £240,000 | +4% |
| LE13 | £233,000 | +4% |
| LE11 | £230,000 | +7% |
| LE1 | £117,000 | -8% |
Selling a home in LE18? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE18, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE18 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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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.