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LS3 local market report Leeds

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 888 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LS3 (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 July 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

LS3 is the postcode district covering Burley, Woodhouse 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 LS3 sits

Click the map to open LS3 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.

LS1LS2LS4LS3
£212,500median sold price, 2025
-24%five-year change (cash)
49sales in the last 12 months
6.4%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in LS3 sells for

The 2025 median in LS3 is £212,500, from 26 registered sales; the mean, £1,905,500, 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 LS3 trades 22% below the country as a whole.

The price of a typical LS3 home, 1995 to 2025

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)
£125k£250k£375k£500k1995200020052010201520202025 1995: £41,500 at the time · £88,108 in today's money · 20 sales1996: £36,900 at the time · £76,003 in today's money · 26 sales1997: £38,000 at the time · £76,110 in today's money · 26 sales1998: £40,000 at the time · £78,857 in today's money · 26 sales1999: £39,000 at the time · £75,910 in today's money · 39 sales2000: £47,000 at the time · £90,083 in today's money · 49 sales2001: £96,500 at the time · £181,184 in today's money · 35 sales2002: £78,700 at the time · £144,615 in today's money · 52 sales2003: £94,000 at the time · £169,126 in today's money · 48 sales2004: £119,800 at the time · £212,499 in today's money · 36 sales2005: £136,500 at the time · £237,242 in today's money · 40 sales2006: £238,000 at the time · £403,489 in today's money · 73 sales2007: £140,000 at the time · £231,933 in today's money · 34 sales2008: £160,000 at the time · £256,148 in today's money · 20 sales2009: £140,000 at the time · £219,795 in today's money · 19 sales2010: £108,500 at the time · £166,182 in today's money · 8 sales2011: £90,000 at the time · £132,692 in today's money · 9 sales2012: £92,500 at the time · £132,969 in today's money · 16 sales2013: £85,800 at the time · £120,574 in today's money · 10 sales2014: £114,500 at the time · £158,645 in today's money · 24 sales2015: £125,000 at the time · £172,500 in today's money · 29 sales2016: £146,500 at the time · £200,168 in today's money · 26 sales2017: £150,000 at the time · £199,807 in today's money · 27 sales2018: £153,000 at the time · £199,189 in today's money · 31 sales2019: £210,000 at the time · £268,831 in today's money · 21 sales2020: £280,000 at the time · £354,821 in today's money · 23 sales2021: £205,000 at the time · £253,495 in today's money · 26 sales2022: £310,000 at the time · £355,021 in today's money · 21 sales2023: £312,200 at the time · £335,020 in today's money · 18 sales2024: £197,500 at the time · £205,079 in today's money · 28 sales2025: £212,500 at the time · £212,500 in today's money · 26 sales
See this chart as a table
YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2025£212,500£212,50026
2024£197,500£205,07928
2023£312,200£335,02018
2022£310,000£355,02121
2021£205,000£253,49526
2020£280,000£354,82123
2019£210,000£268,83121
2018£153,000£199,18931
2017£150,000£199,80727
2016£146,500£200,16826
2015£125,000£172,50029
2014£114,500£158,64524
2013£85,800£120,57410
2012£92,500£132,96916
2011£90,000£132,6929
2010£108,500£166,1828
2009£140,000£219,79519
2008£160,000£256,14820
2007£140,000£231,93334
2006£238,000£403,48973
2005£136,500£237,24240
2004£119,800£212,49936
2003£94,000£169,12648
2002£78,700£144,61552
2001£96,500£181,18435
2000£47,000£90,08349
1999£39,000£75,91039
1998£40,000£78,85726
1997£38,000£76,11026
1996£36,900£76,00326
1995£41,500£88,10820

In cash terms the typical LS3 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £212,500 in 2025, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 47% 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 LS3 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+200% -200% 0% 1996 · −11.1% on the year before1997 · +3.0% on the year before1998 · +5.3% on the year before1999 · −2.5% on the year before2000 · +20.5% on the year before2001 · +105.3% on the year before2002 · −18.4% on the year before2003 · +19.4% on the year before2004 · +27.4% on the year before2005 · +13.9% on the year before2006 · +74.4% on the year before2007 · −41.2% on the year before2008 · +14.3% on the year before2009 · −12.5% on the year before2010 · −22.5% on the year before2011 · −17.1% on the year before2012 · +2.8% on the year before2013 · −7.2% on the year before2014 · +33.4% on the year before2015 · +9.2% on the year before2016 · +17.2% on the year before2017 · +2.4% on the year before2018 · +2.0% on the year before2019 · +37.3% on the year before2020 · +33.3% on the year before2021 · −26.8% on the year before2022 · +51.2% on the year before2023 · +0.7% on the year before2024 · −36.7% on the year before2025 · +7.6% on the year before200020052010201520202025

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.

Annualised returns

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2024)+7.6%+3.6%
5 years (since 2020)−5.4%−9.7%
10 years (since 2015)+5.4%+2.1%
20 years (since 2005)+2.2%−0.5%

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.

50100 1995: 20 sales1996: 26 sales1997: 26 sales1998: 26 sales1999: 39 sales2000: 49 sales2001: 35 sales2002: 52 sales2003: 48 sales2004: 36 sales2005: 40 sales2006: 73 sales2007: 34 sales2008: 20 sales2009: 19 sales2010: 8 sales2011: 9 sales2012: 16 sales2013: 10 sales2014: 24 sales2015: 29 sales2016: 26 sales2017: 27 sales2018: 31 sales2019: 21 sales2020: 23 sales2021: 26 sales2022: 21 sales2023: 18 sales2024: 28 sales2025: 26 sales1995200020052010201520202025

The last five years, month by month

Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.

510 August 2006 · 4 sales registeredSeptember 2006 · 3 sales registeredOctober 2006 · 4 sales registeredNovember 2006 · 3 sales registeredDecember 2006 · 3 sales registeredJanuary 2007 · 3 sales registeredFebruary 2007 · 6 sales registeredMarch 2007 · 5 sales registeredApril 2007 · 4 sales registeredDecember 2007 · 3 sales registeredJuly 2008 · 3 sales registeredDecember 2008 · 4 sales registeredMarch 2009 · 3 sales registeredOctober 2009 · 3 sales registeredAugust 2012 · 5 sales registeredMay 2014 · 4 sales registeredSeptember 2014 · 3 sales registeredOctober 2014 · 4 sales registeredNovember 2014 · 3 sales registeredMarch 2015 · 4 sales registeredJune 2015 · 5 sales registeredAugust 2015 · 4 sales registeredSeptember 2015 · 3 sales registeredNovember 2015 · 5 sales registeredMarch 2016 · 6 sales registeredJune 2016 · 3 sales registeredDecember 2016 · 4 sales registeredJuly 2017 · 5 sales registeredSeptember 2017 · 5 sales registeredNovember 2017 · 3 sales registeredJanuary 2018 · 3 sales registeredApril 2018 · 4 sales registeredJuly 2018 · 3 sales registeredAugust 2018 · 3 sales registeredOctober 2018 · 3 sales registeredDecember 2018 · 5 sales registeredMarch 2019 · 4 sales registeredNovember 2019 · 4 sales registeredDecember 2019 · 3 sales registeredJanuary 2020 · 4 sales registeredMarch 2020 · 3 sales registeredMay 2020 · 3 sales registeredJune 2020 · 4 sales registeredFebruary 2021 · 3 sales registeredMarch 2021 · 3 sales registeredApril 2021 · 3 sales registeredJune 2021 · 5 sales registeredNovember 2021 · 3 sales registeredApril 2022 · 3 sales registeredSeptember 2022 · 6 sales registeredFebruary 2023 · 3 sales registeredSeptember 2023 · 3 sales registeredApril 2024 · 3 sales registeredMay 2024 · 3 sales registeredAugust 2024 · 7 sales registeredOctober 2024 · 3 sales registeredMarch 2025 · 3 sales registeredApril 2025 · 9 sales registeredMay 2025 · 3 sales registeredJuly 2025 · 3 sales registered

LS3 recorded 49 sales in the last 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 24 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 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.

Average monthly rent by size, Leeds

ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.

1 bed: £774 a month£7741 bed2 bed: £964 a month£9642 bed3 bed: £1,125 a month£1,1253 bed4+ bed: £1,677 a month£1,6774+ bed

Set against the £212,500 median sold price, £1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, a gross yield of 6.4%: 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 LS3 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 24% over five years in cash but down 40% 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

LS3 ranks 28 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.

LS7LS7 · +105% over five years · median £285,500+105%LS14LS14 · +29% over five years · median £231,500+29%LS5LS5 · +28% over five years · median £239,500+28%LS23LS23 · +23% over five years · median £425,000+23%LS10LS10 · +22% over five years · median £189,000+22%LS27LS27 · −3% over five years · median £191,000−3%LS16LS16 · −7% over five years · median £285,000−7%LS1LS1 · −14% over five years · median £185,000−14%LS3LS3 · −24% over five years · median £212,500−24%LS2LS2 · −40% over five years · median £100,000−40%

Inside LS3, 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.

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
LS3 1£212,50026

How LS3 compares nearby

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

DistrictMedian5-year
LS23£425,000+23%
LS22£418,000+7%
LS29£379,500+4%
LS17£350,000+6%
LS24£310,000+19%
LS21£309,400+15%
LS18£300,000+3%
LS20£298,000-3%
LS7£285,500+105%
LS16£285,000-7%
LS25£265,500+15%
LS6£265,000+6%
LS15£255,000+9%
LS26£247,500+14%
LS8£245,000+7%
LS19£240,000-1%
LS5£239,500+28%
LS28£233,800+14%
LS14£231,500+29%
LS3 (this report)£212,500-24%
LS4£212,000+16%
LS27£191,000-3%
LS10£189,000+22%
LS1£185,000-14%

Dig further

See every individual LS3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference LS3 price page. 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.