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Great Preston market report LS26 9, Leeds
The LS26 9 (Great Preston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,676 registered sales in LS26 9 (Leeds) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LS26 9 (Leeds) came in at £256,200, out of 24 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £270,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,950 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,676 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LS26 9 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 9 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 a home in LS26 9 sells for
Across 24 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LS26 9 home went for £256,200. The mean is £270,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in LS26 9
A square metre of LS26 9 home has cost about £2,950 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LS26 9 sits 10% below the national market.
LS26 9'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 | £256,200 | £256,200 | 24 |
| 2025 | £252,500 | £258,538 | 91 |
| 2024 | £204,800 | £217,744 | 59 |
| 2023 | £221,600 | £243,484 | 58 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 79 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 122 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 81 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 101 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 117 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 102 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 71 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 49 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 75 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 67 |
| 2012 | £146,000 | £214,894 | 44 |
| 2011 | £141,500 | £213,611 | 42 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 35 |
| 2009 | £128,500 | £206,565 | 39 |
| 2008 | £138,200 | £226,539 | 50 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 87 |
| 2006 | £133,500 | £231,739 | 112 |
| 2005 | £134,000 | £238,466 | 80 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 107 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 95 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 162 |
| 2001 | £85,900 | £165,138 | 170 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 89 |
| 1999 | £59,200 | £117,983 | 102 |
| 1998 | £53,800 | £108,599 | 88 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 104 |
| 1996 | £55,500 | £117,047 | 86 |
| 1995 | £47,200 | £102,606 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical LS26 9 home went from £47,200 in 1995 to £256,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 150%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LS26 9 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 2017 (+54.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−20.6%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +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 LS26 9
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in LS26 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the LS26 9 market
This is a thin market: 24 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 rental side of LS26 9
The local authority for LS26 9 is Leeds, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, which against the £256,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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 LS26 9 (Great Preston)
Are property prices falling in LS26 9 (Great Preston)?
Is LS26 9 (Great Preston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LS26 9 (Great Preston)?
Where do LS26 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Pinders Green Drive, Methley, Leeds
- Little Preston Park, Hall Road, Little Preston, Leeds
- Haighside Way, Rothwell, LEEDS
"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 LS26 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: LS prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LS 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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 LS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LS area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LS26
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LS26, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS26 0 | £230,000 | 72 |
| LS26 8 | £262,500 | 69 |
Zoom out to the full LS26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LS26 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LS26 9? 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 LS26 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LS26 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LS26 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual LS26 9 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.