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Blaby market report LE8 8, Leicester
The LE8 8 (Blaby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,297 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LE8 8 (Leicester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in LE8 8 (Leicester) sold for £271,200 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £295,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,297 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LE8 8 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 8 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.
LE8 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for LE8 8 is £271,200, taken from 36 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £295,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in LE8 8
A square metre of LE8 8 home has cost about £3,210 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LE8 8 5% below the country at large.
LE8 8'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 | £271,200 | £271,200 | 36 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 144 |
| 2024 | £311,000 | £330,657 | 124 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 102 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 137 |
| 2021 | £260,500 | £329,827 | 180 |
| 2020 | £263,000 | £341,248 | 108 |
| 2019 | £231,000 | £302,786 | 81 |
| 2018 | £208,000 | £277,268 | 65 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 88 |
| 2016 | £172,000 | £240,630 | 85 |
| 2015 | £181,200 | £256,036 | 68 |
| 2014 | £179,500 | £254,652 | 92 |
| 2013 | £156,000 | £224,468 | 59 |
| 2012 | £142,000 | £209,006 | 71 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 53 |
| 2010 | £159,000 | £249,353 | 59 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 58 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 50 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 126 |
| 2006 | £156,800 | £272,185 | 116 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 95 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 125 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 123 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 137 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 165 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 140 |
| 1999 | £63,200 | £125,954 | 124 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 113 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 106 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 138 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 129 |
In cash terms the typical LE8 8 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £271,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 129%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LE8 8 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 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.6% | −11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 36 LE8 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 109 sales a year recently, against 128 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around LE8 8
LE8 8 falls under Harborough, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £962 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £706 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,579 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Harborough
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £271,200 median sold price, £962 a month is £11,544 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Reading the LE8 8 market
This is a thin market: 36 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: LE8 8 (Blaby)
Is LE8 8 (Blaby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE8 8 (Blaby)?
Are property prices falling in LE8 8 (Blaby)?
Will LE8 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 you could buy in LE8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 160 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LE8 district, not just LE8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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
Real sold prices by size across the LE area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, LE area districts
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 4 | £278,000 | 31 |
| LE8 5 | £315,000 | 41 |
| LE8 6 | £290,000 | 37 |
| 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.
Before you sell in LE8 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LE8 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the LE8 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LE8 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LE8 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LE8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LE8 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.