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Blaby market report LE8 6, Leicester
The LE8 6 (Blaby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,088 registered sales in LE8 6 (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: the typical home in LE8 6 (Leicester) sold for £290,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £297,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,088 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LE8 6 is one sector of LE8 (Leicester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LE8 6 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 LE8 6
37 sales were registered in LE8 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £290,000. The mean works out at £297,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in LE8 6
A square metre of LE8 6 home has cost about £3,220 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LE8 6 2% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LE8 6 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £281,200 | £287,924 | 102 |
| 2024 | £252,200 | £268,140 | 92 |
| 2023 | £257,500 | £282,930 | 69 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 85 |
| 2021 | £249,000 | £315,266 | 124 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 81 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 109 |
| 2018 | £235,500 | £313,926 | 130 |
| 2017 | £252,500 | £344,385 | 216 |
| 2016 | £234,000 | £327,368 | 189 |
| 2015 | £208,800 | £295,034 | 152 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 103 |
| 2013 | £155,200 | £223,317 | 90 |
| 2012 | £146,800 | £216,071 | 66 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 69 |
| 2010 | £171,000 | £268,172 | 82 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 75 |
| 2008 | £155,500 | £254,897 | 71 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 131 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 159 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 107 |
| 2004 | £140,500 | £255,175 | 148 |
| 2003 | £128,200 | £236,175 | 158 |
| 2002 | £100,500 | £189,090 | 160 |
| 2001 | £80,500 | £154,757 | 183 |
| 2000 | £74,700 | £146,599 | 164 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 173 |
| 1998 | £64,500 | £130,198 | 189 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 181 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 217 |
| 1995 | £60,200 | £130,866 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical LE8 6 home went from £60,200 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 122%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE8 6 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−18.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
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 LE8 6
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 37 LE8 6 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 151 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 homes rent for around LE8 6
LE8 6 falls under Blaby, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £982 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £290,000 median purchase price, a rent of £982 a month (£11,784 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
What kind of market LE8 6 is
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LE8 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
LE8 6 (Blaby): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LE8 6 (Blaby)?
Is LE8 6 (Blaby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE8 6 (Blaby)?
Are LE8 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 LE8 right now
The live side of the market holds 160 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE8 district, not just LE8 6: 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
"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 LE8 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LE area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the LE area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LE8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LE8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LE8 0 | £300,000 | 37 |
| LE8 4 | £278,000 | 31 |
| LE8 5 | £315,000 | 41 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in LE8 6? 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 LE8 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LE8 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LE8 6 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 LE8 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE8 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LE8 6 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.