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Braunstone market report LE3 3, Leicester
The LE3 3 (Braunstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,427 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LE3 3 (Leicester) 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 typical home in LE3 3 (Leicester) sold for £273,000 in 2026, the median of 65 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £289,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,180 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,427 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LE3 3 is one sector of LE3 (Leicester): 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 LE3 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.
LE3 3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the LE3 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £273,000, from 65 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £289,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in LE3 3
Per square metre, LE3 3 homes have averaged around £3,180 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 LE3 3 4% below the country at large.
A typical LE3 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £273,000 | £273,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 189 |
| 2024 | £260,800 | £277,284 | 178 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 154 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 198 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 262 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 184 |
| 2019 | £196,500 | £257,564 | 251 |
| 2018 | £209,000 | £278,601 | 254 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 306 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 318 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 292 |
| 2014 | £160,500 | £227,697 | 278 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 206 |
| 2012 | £143,000 | £210,478 | 176 |
| 2011 | £139,200 | £210,138 | 156 |
| 2010 | £144,000 | £225,829 | 188 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 198 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 231 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 437 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 380 |
| 2005 | £144,000 | £256,262 | 301 |
| 2004 | £137,500 | £249,727 | 359 |
| 2003 | £121,000 | £222,911 | 411 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 512 |
| 2001 | £81,000 | £155,718 | 484 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 484 |
| 1999 | £66,200 | £131,933 | 482 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 453 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 437 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 372 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 231 |
In cash terms the typical LE3 3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £273,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE3 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.0%). 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) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
LE3 3 recorded 65 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 421 sales a year before the financial crisis and 157 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.
How LE3 3 trades
Within LE3, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of LE3 3
The local authority for LE3 3 is Blaby, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £982 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £700 a month here against £1,547 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Blaby
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £273,000 median sold price, £982 a month is £11,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 LE3 3 (Braunstone)
How much did a house sell for in LE3 3 (Braunstone)?
Are property prices falling in LE3 3 (Braunstone)?
Is LE3 3 (Braunstone) a good place to buy a house?
Where do LE3 3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in LE3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 250 homes currently on the market from 15 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE3 district, not just LE3 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Station Road, Glenfield, Leicester
- Kirby Road, Glenfield, Leicester
- Darwin Close, Leicester, Leicester
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 LE3 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
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.
Five-year change in the median, LE area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LE3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE3 0 | £192,000 | 61 |
| LE3 1 | £224,800 | 26 |
| LE3 2 | £266,200 | 54 |
| LE3 5 | £171,000 | 18 |
| LE3 6 | £227,500 | 42 |
| LE3 8 | £290,000 | 69 |
| LE3 9 | £220,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full LE3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LE3 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE3 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE3 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE3 3 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 LE3 3.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual LE3 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.