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Braunstone market report LE3 8, Leicester
The LE3 8 (Braunstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,500 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LE3 8 (Leicester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical LE3 8 (Leicester) home changed hands for £290,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £296,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,250 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,500 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like LE3 8 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 8 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 a home in LE3 8 sells for
Take the 69 registered 2026 sales in LE3 8 and the middle price, the median, is £290,000. The mean lands at £296,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in LE3 8
By floor space, homes in LE3 8 have sold for about £3,250 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LE3 8 2% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LE3 8 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £293,000 | £300,007 | 151 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 147 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 129 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 174 |
| 2021 | £257,500 | £326,028 | 231 |
| 2020 | £241,000 | £312,702 | 142 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 151 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 172 |
| 2017 | £207,200 | £282,600 | 188 |
| 2016 | £227,200 | £317,855 | 198 |
| 2015 | £206,000 | £291,078 | 223 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 213 |
| 2013 | £164,000 | £235,980 | 165 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 119 |
| 2011 | £167,000 | £252,106 | 124 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 105 |
| 2009 | £152,800 | £245,627 | 108 |
| 2008 | £153,000 | £250,799 | 83 |
| 2007 | £166,000 | £281,582 | 214 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 198 |
| 2005 | £153,000 | £272,278 | 150 |
| 2004 | £146,000 | £265,165 | 189 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 191 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 231 |
| 2001 | £89,500 | £172,059 | 242 |
| 2000 | £76,500 | £150,131 | 221 |
| 1999 | £71,500 | £142,496 | 211 |
| 1998 | £68,400 | £138,070 | 216 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 211 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 190 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical LE3 8 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 132%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% 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 8 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 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.0% | −3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 8 recorded 69 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 205 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
What homes rent for around LE3 8
LE3 8 falls under Blaby, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£982 a month is £11,784 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
Reading the LE3 8 market
Within LE3, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: LE3 8 (Braunstone)
How much did a house sell for in LE3 8 (Braunstone)?
Are property prices falling in LE3 8 (Braunstone)?
Is LE3 8 (Braunstone) a good place to buy a house?
Are LE3 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
On the market in LE3 today
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
- Station Road, Glenfield, Leicester
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- Darwin Close, Leicester, Leicester
"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 LE3 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LE3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LE3, one report each:
| 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 5 | £171,000 | 18 |
| LE3 6 | £227,500 | 42 |
| 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 a home in LE3 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LE3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LE3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LE3 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LE3 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE3 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LE3 8 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.