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Scraptoft market report LE7, Leicester
The standing LE7 (Scraptoft) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 27,013 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE7 (Leicester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 typical home in LE7 (Leicester) sold for £312,200 in 2026, the median of 296 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £350,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,330 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 27,013 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LE7 is a postcode district covering Scraptoft, Thurnby, Anstey 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 LE7 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 LE7 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for LE7 is £312,200, taken from 296 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £350,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in LE7
Per square metre, LE7 homes have averaged around £3,330 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LE7 runs 10% above it.
The price of a typical LE7 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £312,200 | £312,200 | 296 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 935 |
| 2024 | £335,500 | £356,705 | 810 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 736 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 749 |
| 2021 | £292,500 | £370,343 | 1,091 |
| 2020 | £283,200 | £367,458 | 950 |
| 2019 | £261,500 | £342,764 | 1,006 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 996 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 953 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 1,011 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 914 |
| 2014 | £198,000 | £280,898 | 956 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 732 |
| 2012 | £171,100 | £251,838 | 612 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 643 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 665 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 655 |
| 2008 | £168,000 | £275,387 | 625 |
| 2007 | £178,000 | £301,938 | 1,018 |
| 2006 | £172,500 | £299,438 | 1,096 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 782 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 913 |
| 2003 | £137,300 | £252,940 | 872 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 938 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 919 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 875 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 940 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 901 |
| 1997 | £62,500 | £128,175 | 866 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 843 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 715 |
In cash terms the typical LE7 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £312,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, 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 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE7 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 (+37.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.6%). 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. A detached home currently trades at £415,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, LE7
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 | £415,000 | 129 | 11,955 |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | 96 | 8,621 |
| Terraced | £239,000 | 54 | 5,135 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 17 | 1,302 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.9% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 701 LE7 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 927 sales a year before the financial crisis and 705 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.
What tenants pay around LE7
For renting purposes LE7 sits in Charnwood. The ONS average private rent there is £955 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £674 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,468 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Charnwood
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £312,200 median sold price, £955 a month is £11,460 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
What kind of market LE7 is
Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, LE7 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
LE7 (Scraptoft): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LE7 (Scraptoft)?
Is LE7 (Scraptoft) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE7 (Scraptoft)?
Will LE7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in LE7 right now
Everything above is what homes in LE7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 382 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the LE7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- New Avenue, Rearsby, LE7, Leicester
- Syston Road, Queniborough, LE7, Leicester
- Grange Lane, Thurnby, Leicester, Leic...
"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 LE7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LE: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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
LE7 ranks 11 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 LE7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE7 1 | £249,500 | 32 |
| LE7 2 | £300,000 | 52 |
| LE7 3 | £301,500 | 36 |
| LE7 4 | £485,000 | 14 |
| LE7 7 | £315,000 | 112 |
| LE7 9 | £400,000 | 50 |
How LE7 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 (this report) | £312,200 | +7% |
| LE15 | £301,200 | +8% |
| LE65 | £292,500 | -1% |
| LE8 | £290,000 | +4% |
| LE19 | £286,500 | +9% |
| LE6 | £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% |
Selling in LE7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE7, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LE7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LE7 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.