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Ratby market report LE6, Leicester
The LE6 (Ratby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,754 registered sales in LE6 (Leicester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 74 registered 2026 sales put the LE6 (Leicester) median at £278,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £335,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,754 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district LE6 covering Ratby, Groby, Newtown Linford sits in Leicester. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LE6 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 LE6
74 sales were registered in LE6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £278,000. The mean works out at £335,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in LE6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LE6 costs about £3,410 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LE6 2% below the country at large.
LE6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £278,000 | £278,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 200 |
| 2024 | £272,500 | £289,723 | 196 |
| 2023 | £285,200 | £313,365 | 142 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 200 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 235 |
| 2020 | £224,000 | £290,645 | 138 |
| 2019 | £222,800 | £292,037 | 192 |
| 2018 | £214,200 | £285,533 | 206 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 182 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 228 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 187 |
| 2014 | £174,000 | £246,849 | 218 |
| 2013 | £164,500 | £236,699 | 194 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 149 |
| 2011 | £164,200 | £247,879 | 162 |
| 2010 | £164,200 | £257,508 | 166 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 201 |
| 2008 | £172,200 | £282,272 | 172 |
| 2007 | £172,500 | £292,608 | 238 |
| 2006 | £163,200 | £283,294 | 280 |
| 2005 | £148,000 | £263,380 | 187 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 263 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 265 |
| 2002 | £108,000 | £203,201 | 305 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 321 |
| 2000 | £75,500 | £148,169 | 249 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 251 |
| 1998 | £59,400 | £119,903 | 244 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 263 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 249 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 197 |
In cash terms the typical LE6 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £278,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 141%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE6 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 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.5%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £370,000 against £143,800 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, LE6
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 | 33 | 2,946 |
| Semi-detached | £274,500 | 20 | 2,367 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 21 | 1,306 |
| Flats | £143,800 (2022) | – | 79 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.7% | −3.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 LE6
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 156 sales completed in LE6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 264 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of LE6
For renting purposes LE6 sits in Hinckley and Bosworth. The ONS average private rent there is £926 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £633 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,402 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hinckley and Bosworth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £278,000 median purchase price, a rent of £926 a month (£11,112 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
Common questions on LE6 (Ratby)
Are property prices falling in LE6 (Ratby)?
Is LE6 (Ratby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE6 (Ratby)?
Will LE6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
On the market in LE6 today
Everything above is what homes in LE6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% above the LE6 median sold price.
19% 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.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LE6 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
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
LE6 ranks 4 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.
LE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LE6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LE6 0 | £278,000 | 74 |
How LE6 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 (this report) | £278,000 | +11% |
| LE5 | £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 LE6? 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 LE6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LE6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LE6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working LE6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LE6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LE6 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.