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Burley market report LS3, Leeds

The LS3 (Burley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 732 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LS3 (Leeds) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the 2026 median for LS3 (Leeds) is £250,000, from 3 registered sales, up 56% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,490 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 732 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

The postcode district LS3 covering Burley, Woodhouse 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.

Today's LS3 prices, from the sold record

Take the 3 registered 2026 sales in LS3 and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £255,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

House prices per square metre in LS3

The last five years of sales put LS3 at roughly £2,490 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LS3 trades 12% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical LS3 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 177%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 39% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+105.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−41.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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.

Transaction volumes

The register shows 21 LS3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 46 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8 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.

The rental side of LS3

LS3 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.

Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.

How LS3 trades

This is a thin market: 21 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 record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.

Common questions on LS3 (Burley)

What happens to LS3 prices now?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 56% over five years in cash and up 23% 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.

Moving up a bedroom in LS: the cost

The risers and the fallers

LS3 ranks 1 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.

Inside LS3, 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.

How LS3 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LS area, dearest first:

Selling a home in LS3? Price it on the evidence

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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.