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Hamilton market report LE5, Leicester
The LE5 (Hamilton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 28,831 HM Land Registry entries for LE5 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LE5 (Leicester) is £276,500, from 212 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £288,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 28,831 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LE5 is the postcode district covering Hamilton, Thurnby Lodge, Evington in Leicester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LE5 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 LE5 homes really sell for
Take the 212 registered 2026 sales in LE5 and the middle price, the median, is £276,500. The mean lands at £288,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in LE5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LE5 sales average about £2,990 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LE5 3% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LE5 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 | £276,500 | £276,500 | 212 |
| 2025 | £272,800 | £279,323 | 544 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 511 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 470 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 640 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 820 |
| 2020 | £221,200 | £287,012 | 550 |
| 2019 | £208,000 | £272,638 | 801 |
| 2018 | £208,000 | £277,268 | 950 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 1,012 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 969 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 947 |
| 2014 | £139,000 | £197,196 | 852 |
| 2013 | £127,500 | £183,460 | 617 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 567 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 673 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 829 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 783 |
| 2008 | £136,500 | £223,752 | 828 |
| 2007 | £136,500 | £231,542 | 1,473 |
| 2006 | £128,000 | £222,192 | 1,416 |
| 2005 | £129,000 | £229,568 | 1,040 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 1,232 |
| 2003 | £100,800 | £185,698 | 1,565 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 1,499 |
| 2001 | £55,500 | £106,696 | 1,309 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 1,140 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 1,110 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 966 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 826 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 828 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 852 |
In cash terms the typical LE5 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £276,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE5 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 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−6.9%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, LE5
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 | £400,000 | 35 | 5,364 |
| Semi-detached | £290,500 | 78 | 10,856 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 88 | 10,918 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 11 | 1,693 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in LE5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
LE5 recorded 436 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,334 sales a year before the financial crisis and 475 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 tenants pay around LE5
For renting purposes LE5 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 £276,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
Common questions on LE5 (Hamilton)
Are property prices falling in LE5 (Hamilton)?
Is LE5 (Hamilton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE5 (Hamilton)?
Will LE5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
What is for sale in LE5 right now
Everything above is what homes in LE5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 161 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the LE5 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Kestrel Lane, Hamilton, Leicester
- Copgrove Close, Hamilton, LE5, Leicester
- Hackness Road, Hamilton, 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 LE5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LE area, 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%) | — | — |
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
LE5 ranks 2 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LE5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE5 0 | £240,000 | 22 |
| LE5 1 | £287,500 | 52 |
| 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 |
How LE5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LE16 | £332,500 | +0% |
| LE14 | £324,000 | -3% |
| LE17 | £315,000 | -5% |
| LE7 | £312,200 | +7% |
| LE15 | £301,200 | +8% |
| LE65 | £292,500 | -1% |
| LE8 | £290,000 | +4% |
| LE19 | £286,500 | +9% |
| LE6 | £278,000 | +11% |
| LE5 (this report) | £276,500 | +15% |
| LE12 | £275,000 | +8% |
| LE4 | £265,000 | +15% |
| LE9 | £265,000 | +6% |
| LE2 | £257,000 | +5% |
| LE18 | £255,000 | +11% |
| LE10 | £254,000 | +8% |
| LE3 | £242,200 | +13% |
| LE67 | £240,000 | +4% |
| LE13 | £233,000 | +4% |
| LE11 | £230,000 | +7% |
| LE1 | £117,000 | -8% |
Thinking of selling in LE5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LE5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LE5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LE5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LE5.
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Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.