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Braunstone market report LE3, Leicester
The standing LE3 (Braunstone) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 45,743 HM Land Registry entries for LE3 (Leicester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in LE3 (Leicester) sold for £247,500 in 2026, the median of 469 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £256,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 45,743 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LE3 is a postcode district covering Braunstone, Glenfield, New Parks in Leicester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where LE3 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 LE3
469 sales were registered in LE3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £247,500. The mean works out at £256,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in LE3
The last five years of sales put LE3 at roughly £2,830 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LE3 13% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LE3 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 | £247,500 | £247,500 | 469 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 1,002 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 905 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 820 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 1,109 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 1,246 |
| 2020 | £194,000 | £251,719 | 858 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 1,102 |
| 2018 | £169,000 | £225,280 | 1,263 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 1,269 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 1,408 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 1,419 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 1,350 |
| 2013 | £126,500 | £182,021 | 979 |
| 2012 | £123,600 | £181,924 | 882 |
| 2011 | £122,700 | £185,230 | 906 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 917 |
| 2009 | £122,500 | £196,920 | 885 |
| 2008 | £126,000 | £206,541 | 1,019 |
| 2007 | £131,000 | £222,212 | 2,182 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 2,242 |
| 2005 | £119,500 | £212,662 | 1,790 |
| 2004 | £119,000 | £216,127 | 2,121 |
| 2003 | £95,500 | £175,934 | 2,301 |
| 2002 | £78,500 | £147,697 | 2,387 |
| 2001 | £62,000 | £119,192 | 2,379 |
| 2000 | £55,400 | £108,723 | 2,288 |
| 1999 | £51,500 | £102,637 | 2,046 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 1,775 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 1,695 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 1,438 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 1,291 |
In cash terms the typical LE3 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £247,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 178%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LE3 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,200 against £130,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, LE3
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 | £350,200 | 94 | 8,482 |
| Semi-detached | £255,500 | 208 | 17,848 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 140 | 17,036 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 27 | 2,377 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.1% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LE3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
LE3 recorded 811 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 2,211 sales a year before the financial crisis and 861 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.
The rental side of LE3
LE3 falls under Leicester, 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 £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.
Against the £247,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,024 a month (£12,288 a year) works out at a 5.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How LE3 trades
Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, LE3 ranks 17 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about LE3 (Braunstone)
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What happens to LE3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
What you could buy in LE3 now
Everything above is what homes in LE3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 178 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the LE3 median sold price.
LE3 registered 811 sales in the last twelve months; the 178 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
7% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Kirby Road, Glenfield, Leicester
- Stackyard Close, Thorpe Astley, LE3, Leicester
- Farmway, Braunstone Town, Leicester, LE3, 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 →
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.
Listed against sold: the LE3 mix
Sellers of semi-detached homes in LE3 have company: 54% of current listings against 43% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 18% | 20% |
| Semi-detached | 54% | 43% |
| Terraced | 28% | 31% |
| Flats | 0% | 6% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares.
The LE3 sales calendar
Take the 5,082 LE3 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.5% of the total, April trails with 6.0%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 339 | 6.7% |
| February | 405 | 8.0% |
| March | 535 | 10.5% |
| April | 305 | 6.0% |
| May | 382 | 7.5% |
| June | 486 | 9.6% |
| July | 395 | 7.8% |
| August | 447 | 8.8% |
| September | 489 | 9.6% |
| October | 452 | 8.9% |
| November | 461 | 9.1% |
| December | 386 | 7.6% |
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | £251,746 | £280,000 (+11%) | £329,500 (+18%) | £415,000 (+26%) | £525,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | £230,000 (+12%) | £255,000 (+11%) | £303,000 (+19%) | £367,750 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £175,000 | £200,000 (+14%) | £219,775 (+10%) | £273,250 (+24%) | £328,000 (+20%) |
| Flat | £115,000 | £140,000 (+22%) | £187,500 (+34%) | £240,000 (+28%) | £311,500 (+30%) |
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
LE3 ranks 3 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LE3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LE3 0 | £190,000 | 73 |
| LE3 1 | £220,000 | 33 |
| LE3 2 | £265,000 | 63 |
| LE3 3 | £276,200 | 82 |
| LE3 5 | £170,000 | 19 |
| LE3 6 | £231,000 | 52 |
| LE3 8 | £290,000 | 88 |
| LE3 9 | £220,000 | 59 |
How LE3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LE14 | £333,200 | -1% |
| LE16 | £333,000 | +0% |
| LE17 | £323,000 | -2% |
| LE15 | £315,000 | +13% |
| LE7 | £311,000 | +6% |
| LE8 | £292,300 | +4% |
| LE6 | £292,000 | +17% |
| LE65 | £290,000 | -2% |
| LE5 | £275,000 | +15% |
| LE12 | £275,000 | +8% |
| LE19 | £275,000 | +5% |
| LE9 | £265,500 | +6% |
| LE4 | £265,000 | +15% |
| LE2 | £255,000 | +4% |
| LE18 | £255,000 | +11% |
| LE10 | £250,000 | +6% |
| LE3 (this report) | £247,500 | +15% |
| LE67 | £245,000 | +7% |
| LE13 | £235,000 | +4% |
| LE11 | £229,800 | +7% |
| LE1 | £117,000 | -8% |
Selling a home in LE3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual LE3 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.
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.