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Aley Green market report LU1 1, Luton
The standing LU1 1 (Aley Green) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,584 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU1 1 (Luton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LU1 1 (Luton) home changed hands for £231,000 in 2026 (median of 28 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £217,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,584 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LU1 1 is one sector of LU1 (Luton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LU1 1 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 LU1 1 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for LU1 1 is £231,000, taken from 28 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £217,700, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in LU1 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LU1 1 sales average about £3,210 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LU1 1 19% below the national figure.
A typical LU1 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £231,000 | £231,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 49 |
| 2024 | £262,500 | £279,091 | 39 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 57 |
| 2022 | £218,000 | £255,630 | 89 |
| 2021 | £223,500 | £282,980 | 82 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 73 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 69 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 108 |
| 2017 | £203,200 | £277,144 | 106 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 157 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 136 |
| 2014 | £132,000 | £187,265 | 116 |
| 2013 | £124,000 | £178,424 | 90 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 85 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 83 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 87 |
| 2009 | £116,500 | £187,275 | 71 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 144 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 326 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 302 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 265 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 341 |
| 2003 | £102,500 | £188,830 | 372 |
| 2002 | £82,000 | £154,282 | 431 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 357 |
| 2000 | £53,200 | £104,405 | 328 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 291 |
| 1998 | £37,200 | £75,091 | 275 |
| 1997 | £34,200 | £70,137 | 239 |
| 1996 | £30,900 | £65,167 | 220 |
| 1995 | £31,600 | £68,694 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical LU1 1 home went from £31,600 in 1995 to £231,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 236%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LU1 1 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 2016 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.2%). 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) | −11.2% | −13.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in LU1 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 340 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
What tenants pay around LU1 1
For renting purposes LU1 1 sits in Luton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,217 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £904 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,811 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Luton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £231,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,217 a month (£14,604 a year) works out at a 6.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market LU1 1 is
This is a thin market: 28 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. Within LU1, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: LU1 1 (Aley Green)
How much did a house sell for in LU1 1 (Aley Green)?
Are property prices falling in LU1 1 (Aley Green)?
Is LU1 1 (Aley Green) a good place to buy a house?
Will LU1 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
LU1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU1 district, not just LU1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Cowper Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1
- Lawford Close, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1
- Crosslands, Caddington, LU1
"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 LU1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LU
Real sold prices by size across the LU 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 | — | £375,000 | £480,000 (+28%) | £690,000 (+44%) | £955,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | £330,000 (+18%) | £381,000 (+15%) | £458,000 (+20%) | £555,000 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £260,000 | £295,000 (+13%) | £330,000 (+12%) | £407,500 (+23%) | — |
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 LU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LU area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LU1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LU1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU1 2 | £150,000 | 1 |
| LU1 3 | £230,000 | 27 |
| LU1 4 | £411,500 | 30 |
| LU1 5 | £268,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full LU1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LU1 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LU1 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LU1 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU1 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.