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Braunstone market report LE3 5, Leicester
The LE3 5 (Braunstone) 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: 3,276 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE3 5 (Leicester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LE3 5 (Leicester) came in at £171,000, out of 18 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £168,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,460 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,276 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 LE3 5 is a single group of streets within LE3 (Leicester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LE3 5 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 buyers actually paid in LE3 5
The LE3 5 median stands at £171,000 for 2026, built from 18 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £168,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in LE3 5
A square metre of LE3 5 home has cost about £2,460 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LE3 5 sits 40% below the national market.
A typical LE3 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £171,000 | £171,000 | 18 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 67 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 83 |
| 2023 | £196,200 | £215,576 | 87 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 111 |
| 2021 | £158,000 | £200,048 | 51 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 34 |
| 2019 | £136,200 | £178,526 | 42 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 72 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 61 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 81 |
| 2015 | £102,000 | £144,126 | 69 |
| 2014 | £96,000 | £136,193 | 70 |
| 2013 | £91,500 | £131,659 | 54 |
| 2012 | £92,000 | £135,413 | 58 |
| 2011 | £92,000 | £138,885 | 49 |
| 2010 | £98,500 | £154,473 | 66 |
| 2009 | £88,000 | £141,461 | 49 |
| 2008 | £110,500 | £181,133 | 84 |
| 2007 | £112,800 | £191,340 | 170 |
| 2006 | £108,000 | £187,474 | 202 |
| 2005 | £99,000 | £176,180 | 134 |
| 2004 | £95,900 | £174,173 | 187 |
| 2003 | £78,000 | £143,695 | 220 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 181 |
| 2001 | £43,000 | £82,665 | 200 |
| 2000 | £37,000 | £72,613 | 160 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 156 |
| 1998 | £33,500 | £67,622 | 126 |
| 1997 | £31,800 | £65,215 | 99 |
| 1996 | £32,000 | £67,487 | 131 |
| 1995 | £31,600 | £68,694 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical LE3 5 home went from £31,600 in 1995 to £171,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE3 5 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 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE3 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 LE3 5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 18 sales completed in LE3 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
What kind of market LE3 5 is
Only 18 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE3 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within LE3, this sector trades 29% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of LE3 5
For renting purposes LE3 5 sits in Leicester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,024 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £717 a month here against £1,459 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Leicester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,024 a month is £12,288 a year, which against the £171,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: LE3 5 (Braunstone)
How much did a house sell for in LE3 5 (Braunstone)?
Are property prices falling in LE3 5 (Braunstone)?
Is LE3 5 (Braunstone) a good place to buy a house?
Where do LE3 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 LE3 right now
The live side of the market holds 250 homes at the moment, listed by 15 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE3 district, not just LE3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in LE
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LE area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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 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 3 | £273,000 | 65 |
| 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.
Selling in LE3 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE3 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE3 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE3 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working LE3 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LE3 5.
Keep digging
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See every individual LE3 5 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.
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.