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Blaby market report LE8 4, Leicester
The standing LE8 4 (Blaby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,187 registered sales in LE8 4 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 31 registered 2026 sales put the LE8 4 (Leicester) median at £278,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £278,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,187 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LE8 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LE8 (Leicester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LE8 4 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 a home in LE8 4 sells for
In the LE8 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £278,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £278,200, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in LE8 4
By floor space, homes in LE8 4 have sold for about £3,220 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LE8 4 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
LE8 4's median sold price, 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 | £278,000 | £278,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £272,000 | £278,504 | 89 |
| 2024 | £257,000 | £273,244 | 85 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 72 |
| 2022 | £264,400 | £310,039 | 108 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 152 |
| 2020 | £231,000 | £299,727 | 105 |
| 2019 | £222,000 | £290,989 | 121 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 119 |
| 2017 | £208,000 | £283,691 | 155 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 138 |
| 2015 | £170,800 | £241,340 | 120 |
| 2014 | £169,800 | £240,891 | 118 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 109 |
| 2012 | £152,500 | £224,461 | 77 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 96 |
| 2010 | £147,000 | £230,534 | 86 |
| 2009 | £147,500 | £237,108 | 52 |
| 2008 | £157,000 | £257,356 | 57 |
| 2007 | £159,000 | £269,708 | 109 |
| 2006 | £153,200 | £265,936 | 114 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 113 |
| 2004 | £147,000 | £266,981 | 122 |
| 2003 | £131,200 | £241,702 | 104 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 129 |
| 2001 | £82,700 | £158,987 | 88 |
| 2000 | £72,200 | £141,693 | 86 |
| 1999 | £61,500 | £122,566 | 106 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 93 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 91 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 78 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical LE8 4 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £278,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE8 4 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 2003 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LE8 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in LE8 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 homes rent for around LE8 4
For renting purposes LE8 4 sits in Blaby. The ONS average private rent there is £982 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £700 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,547, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Blaby
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £278,000 median purchase price, a rent of £982 a month (£11,784 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
Reading the LE8 4 market
This is a thin market: 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
LE8 4 (Blaby): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LE8 4 (Blaby)?
Are property prices falling in LE8 4 (Blaby)?
Is LE8 4 (Blaby) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LE8 4 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in LE8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 160 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE8 district, not just LE8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Prospect Road, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester
- Thackney Leys, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire
- Hunter Road, Whetstone, 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 LE8 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LE8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LE8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE8 0 | £300,000 | 37 |
| LE8 5 | £315,000 | 41 |
| LE8 6 | £290,000 | 37 |
| LE8 8 | £271,200 | 36 |
| LE8 9 | £341,500 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full LE8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LE8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LE8 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE8 4 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 LE8 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LE8 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.
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.