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Scraptoft market report LE7 4, Leicester

The LE7 4 (Scraptoft) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,863 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE7 4 (Leicester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the 2026 median for LE7 4 (Leicester) is £485,000, from 14 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £424,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,570 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,863 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

A postcode sector like LE7 4 is a single group of streets within LE7 (Leicester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What LE7 4 homes really sell for

Take the 14 registered 2026 sales in LE7 4 and the middle price, the median, is £485,000. The mean lands at £424,300, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.

What a square metre costs in LE7 4

Measured by floor area, the last five years of LE7 4 sales average about £3,570 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.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LE7 4 trades 70% above the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical LE7 4 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £485,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+45.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−19.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

Sales activity in LE7 4

LE7 4 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 71 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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 LE7 4

For renting purposes LE7 4 sits in Charnwood. The ONS average private rent there is £955 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £674 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,468, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

£955 a month is £11,460 a year, which against the £485,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.4%. 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.

What kind of market LE7 4 is

Only 14 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE7 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within LE7, this sector trades 55% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

LE7 4 (Scraptoft): the questions that come up

What happens to LE7 4 prices now?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 you could buy in LE7 now

The price of an extra bedroom in LE

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in LE7

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE7, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full LE7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE7 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in LE7 4? Price it on the evidence

Dig further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LE7 4. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual LE7 4 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.

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.