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Great Preston market report LS26, Leeds
The standing LS26 (Great Preston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 16,341 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LS26 (Leeds) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LS26 (Leeds) came in at £245,000, out of 165 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £276,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 16,341 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district LS26 covering Great Preston, Methley, Mickletown sits in Leeds. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LS26 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.
The going rate for a home in LS26
The LS26 median stands at £245,000 for 2026, built from 165 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £276,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LS26
Per square metre, LS26 homes have averaged around £2,940 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LS26 14% below the national figure.
The price of a typical LS26 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 165 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 517 |
| 2024 | £242,500 | £257,827 | 458 |
| 2023 | £228,000 | £250,516 | 383 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 490 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 629 |
| 2020 | £202,000 | £262,099 | 462 |
| 2019 | £187,000 | £245,112 | 467 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 509 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 627 |
| 2016 | £178,000 | £249,024 | 581 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 453 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 518 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 434 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 343 |
| 2011 | £134,500 | £203,043 | 280 |
| 2010 | £143,500 | £225,045 | 297 |
| 2009 | £144,000 | £231,481 | 323 |
| 2008 | £137,500 | £225,392 | 331 |
| 2007 | £151,200 | £256,477 | 608 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 733 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 573 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 592 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 618 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 777 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 710 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 647 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 761 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 582 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 554 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 487 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 432 |
In cash terms the typical LS26 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 128%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LS26 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 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £381,000 against £126,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, LS26
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 | £381,000 | 34 | 4,546 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 81 | 7,003 |
| Terraced | £205,500 | 40 | 4,177 |
| Flats | £126,500 | 10 | 615 |
How many homes change hands in LS26
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.
LS26 recorded 380 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 657 sales a year before the financial crisis and 403 a year over the last five. 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 LS26
LS26 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.
£1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, which against the £245,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 (Great Preston)
Are property prices falling in LS26 (Great Preston)?
Is LS26 (Great Preston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LS26 (Great Preston)?
Are LS26 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
On the market in LS26 today
Everything above is what homes in LS26 sold for. The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the LS26 median sold price.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LS prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the LS 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 | — | £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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LS26 ranks 18 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.
Winners and losers across the LS area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LS26, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS26 0 | £230,000 | 72 |
| LS26 8 | £262,500 | 69 |
| LS26 9 | £256,200 | 24 |
How LS26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LS23 | £425,000 | +23% |
| LS22 | £419,500 | +5% |
| LS29 | £385,000 | +1% |
| LS17 | £372,500 | +10% |
| LS21 | £345,600 | +28% |
| LS16 | £327,500 | +4% |
| LS7 | £305,000 | +30% |
| LS18 | £300,000 | +3% |
| LS20 | £300,000 | -2% |
| LS24 | £290,000 | +12% |
| LS8 | £280,000 | +12% |
| LS6 | £265,000 | +7% |
| LS25 | £264,000 | +12% |
| LS15 | £263,500 | +12% |
| LS3 | £250,000 | +56% |
| LS19 | £245,000 | +0% |
| LS26 (this report) | £245,000 | +11% |
| LS5 | £240,000 | +23% |
| LS28 | £235,000 | +12% |
| LS14 | £230,000 | +24% |
| LS4 | £222,500 | +20% |
| LS27 | £208,500 | +1% |
| LS10 | £197,500 | +26% |
| LS13 | £195,000 | +22% |
Thinking of selling in LS26? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LS26'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LS26.
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See every individual LS26 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.