Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,630 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LS1 (Leeds) 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.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
LS1 is the postcode district covering Leeds city centre in Leeds. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LS1 sits
Click the map to open LS1 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£185,000median sold price, 2026
-14%five-year change (cash)
81sales in the last 12 months
7.4%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in LS1 sells for
The 2026 median in LS1 is £185,000, from 15 registered sales; the mean, £510,400, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so LS1 trades 32% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LS1 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£185,000
£185,000
15
2025
£213,500
£213,500
100
2024
£250,000
£259,594
120
2023
£275,000
£295,101
93
2022
£225,000
£257,676
118
2021
£215,000
£265,860
99
2020
£258,000
£326,942
119
2019
£203,000
£259,870
161
2018
£195,000
£253,868
192
2017
£182,000
£242,432
197
2016
£175,500
£239,792
216
2015
£165,000
£227,700
180
2014
£156,000
£216,145
149
2013
£136,000
£191,120
131
2012
£135,000
£194,063
95
2011
£149,000
£219,679
95
2010
£144,500
£221,321
80
2009
£154,000
£241,775
43
2008
£150,000
£240,139
96
2007
£166,000
£275,006
176
2006
£167,000
£283,120
521
2005
£171,000
£297,204
204
2004
£160,000
£283,805
335
2003
£150,000
£269,883
222
2002
£140,000
£257,257
371
2001
£150,000
£281,633
220
2000
£116,500
£223,292
150
1999
£95,500
£185,882
59
1998
£87,500
£172,500
46
1997
£60,000
£120,174
13
1996
£65,400
£134,704
6
1995
£64,500
£136,938
8
In cash terms the typical LS1 home went from £64,500 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 35%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 43% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LS1 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 1998 (+45.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−13.3%
−13.3%
5 years (since 2021)
−3.0%
−7.0%
10 years (since 2016)
+0.5%
−2.6%
20 years (since 2006)
+0.5%
−2.1%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LS1 recorded 81 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 275 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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 LS1
LS1 falls under Leeds, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,134 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £774 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,677, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Leeds
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £185,000 median sold price, £1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, a gross yield of 7.4%: 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.
Will LS1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 30% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
LS1 ranks 27 of 29 in the LS 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.
Five-year change in the median, LS area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LS1, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.