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Blaby market report LE8, Leicester
The LE8 (Blaby) 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: 21,204 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LE8 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LE8 (Leicester) is £290,000, from 215 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £327,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,204 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LE8 is a postcode district covering Blaby, Great Glen, Fleckney 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 LE8 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 buyers actually paid in LE8
The 2026 median for LE8 is £290,000, taken from 215 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £327,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LE8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LE8 costs about £3,300 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LE8 sits 2% above the national market.
A typical LE8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 215 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 646 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 541 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 514 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 689 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 962 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 643 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 686 |
| 2018 | £242,500 | £323,257 | 717 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 874 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 849 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 722 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 754 |
| 2013 | £175,500 | £252,527 | 656 |
| 2012 | £173,500 | £255,370 | 570 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 533 |
| 2010 | £170,500 | £267,388 | 450 |
| 2009 | £152,800 | £245,627 | 440 |
| 2008 | £167,500 | £274,568 | 341 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 737 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 758 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 617 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 744 |
| 2003 | £141,800 | £261,230 | 698 |
| 2002 | £108,000 | £203,201 | 775 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 824 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 700 |
| 1999 | £68,500 | £136,517 | 770 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 696 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 710 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 756 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 617 |
In cash terms the typical LE8 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 132%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LE8 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.8%). 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) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
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 £374,000 against £138,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, LE8
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 | £374,000 | 94 | 9,286 |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | 70 | 7,775 |
| Terraced | £223,200 | 40 | 3,422 |
| Flats | £138,000 | 11 | 721 |
Transaction volumes
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.
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.
LE8 recorded 472 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 732 sales a year before the financial crisis and 521 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
For renting purposes LE8 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.
£982 a month is £11,784 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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 people ask about LE8 (Blaby)
Are property prices falling in LE8 (Blaby)?
Is LE8 (Blaby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LE8 (Blaby)?
Will LE8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 is for sale in LE8 right now
Everything above is what homes in LE8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 160 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the LE8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LE: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the LE area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LE8 ranks 15 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside LE8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 8 | £271,200 | 36 |
| LE8 9 | £341,500 | 33 |
How LE8 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 | £312,200 | +7% |
| LE15 | £301,200 | +8% |
| LE65 | £292,500 | -1% |
| LE8 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in LE8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LE8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working LE8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LE8.
Keep digging
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See every individual LE8 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.
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.