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Hamilton market report LE5 1, Leicester
The LE5 1 (Hamilton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,137 HM Land Registry entries for LE5 1 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 52 registered 2026 sales put the LE5 1 (Leicester) median at £287,500, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £306,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,000 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,137 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like LE5 1 is a single group of streets within LE5 (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 LE5 1 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.
Today's LE5 1 prices, from the sold record
Across 52 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LE5 1 home went for £287,500. The mean is £306,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in LE5 1
A square metre of LE5 1 home has cost about £3,000 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, LE5 1 sits 1% above the national market.
The price of a typical LE5 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £287,500 | £287,500 | 52 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 145 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 156 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 148 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 173 |
| 2021 | £237,000 | £300,073 | 196 |
| 2020 | £214,000 | £277,669 | 157 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 285 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 377 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 355 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 323 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 257 |
| 2014 | £149,000 | £211,383 | 220 |
| 2013 | £137,800 | £198,280 | 150 |
| 2012 | £159,000 | £234,028 | 140 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 232 |
| 2010 | £151,700 | £237,905 | 280 |
| 2009 | £139,500 | £224,247 | 298 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 334 |
| 2007 | £139,500 | £236,631 | 522 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 462 |
| 2005 | £150,400 | £267,651 | 308 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 361 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 482 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 335 |
| 2001 | £65,500 | £125,920 | 238 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 200 |
| 1999 | £57,200 | £113,997 | 218 |
| 1998 | £55,700 | £112,434 | 190 |
| 1997 | £53,200 | £109,102 | 179 |
| 1996 | £53,200 | £112,196 | 203 |
| 1995 | £51,300 | £111,518 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical LE5 1 home went from £51,300 in 1995 to £287,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE5 1 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−13.3%). 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) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 52 LE5 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 364 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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 LE5 1 trades
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE5 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around LE5 1
The local authority for LE5 1 is Leicester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,024 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £717 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,459 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Leicester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £287,500 median sold price, £1,024 a month is £12,288 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.
Asked and answered: LE5 1 (Hamilton)
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Where do LE5 1 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
On the market in LE5 today
The live side of the market holds 161 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE5 district, not just LE5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Kestrel Lane, Hamilton, Leicester
- Copgrove Close, Hamilton, LE5, Leicester
- Hackness Road, Hamilton, 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 LE5 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.
What another bedroom costs in LE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LE area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in LE5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE5 0 | £240,000 | 22 |
| LE5 2 | £270,000 | 34 |
| LE5 3 | £255,000 | 15 |
| LE5 4 | £275,200 | 28 |
| LE5 5 | £295,200 | 37 |
| LE5 6 | £325,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full LE5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LE5 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE5 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE5 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE5 1 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 LE5 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE5 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LE5 1 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.