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Great Preston market report LS26 8, Leeds
The standing LS26 8 (Great Preston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,162 HM Land Registry entries for LS26 8 (Leeds), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LS26 8 (Leeds) home changed hands for £262,500 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £304,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,970 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,162 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LS26 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LS26 (Leeds). 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 LS26 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.
What LS26 8 homes really sell for
69 sales were registered in LS26 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £262,500. The mean works out at £304,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in LS26 8
A square metre of LS26 8 home has cost about £2,970 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LS26 8 runs 8% below it.
LS26 8's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £262,500 | £262,500 | 69 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 190 |
| 2024 | £257,000 | £273,244 | 217 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 164 |
| 2022 | £233,800 | £274,157 | 172 |
| 2021 | £220,500 | £279,181 | 261 |
| 2020 | £196,000 | £254,314 | 183 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 154 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 175 |
| 2017 | £196,000 | £267,324 | 231 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 258 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 189 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 226 |
| 2013 | £169,800 | £244,325 | 160 |
| 2012 | £145,500 | £214,158 | 131 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 114 |
| 2010 | £151,200 | £237,121 | 122 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 137 |
| 2008 | £140,500 | £230,309 | 138 |
| 2007 | £151,500 | £256,986 | 201 |
| 2006 | £161,000 | £279,475 | 214 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 180 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 194 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 213 |
| 2002 | £86,800 | £163,313 | 278 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 262 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 297 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 331 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 227 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 158 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 169 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical LS26 8 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £262,500 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LS26 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 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−13.3%). 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) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
LS26 8 recorded 69 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 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 tenants pay around LS26 8
LS26 8 falls under Leeds, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,134 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £774 a month here against £1,677 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Leeds
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £262,500 median sold price, £1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Common questions on LS26 8 (Great Preston)
Is LS26 8 (Great Preston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LS26 8 (Great Preston)?
Are property prices falling in LS26 8 (Great Preston)?
Will LS26 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in LS26 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LS26 district, not just LS26 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Pinders Green Drive, Methley, Leeds
- Little Preston Park, Hall Road, Little Preston, Leeds
- Haighside Way, Rothwell, LEEDS
"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 LS26 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LS area, 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 | — | £298,000 | £425,000 (+43%) | £675,000 (+59%) | £900,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | £230,000 (+12%) | £295,000 (+28%) | £431,000 (+46%) | £602,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £165,000 | £185,000 (+12%) | £235,000 (+27%) | £328,000 (+40%) | £440,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £135,000 | £187,500 (+39%) | £300,000 (+60%) | £475,000 (+58%) | — |
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 LS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the LS area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LS26
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LS26, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS26 0 | £230,000 | 72 |
| LS26 9 | £256,200 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full LS26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LS26 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LS26 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LS26 8'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 LS26 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LS26 8.
Go deeper
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See every individual LS26 8 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.