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Aley Green market report LU1 3, Luton
The standing LU1 3 (Aley Green) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,938 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LU1 3 (Luton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in LU1 3 (Luton) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £244,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,500 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,938 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like LU1 3 is a single group of streets within LU1 (Luton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LU1 3 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.
Today's LU1 3 prices, from the sold record
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU1 3 home went for £230,000. The mean is £244,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LU1 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LU1 3 sales average about £3,500 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LU1 3 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
A typical LU1 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 81 |
| 2024 | £234,000 | £248,790 | 75 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 70 |
| 2022 | £230,500 | £270,288 | 81 |
| 2021 | £243,500 | £308,302 | 114 |
| 2020 | £242,500 | £314,649 | 55 |
| 2019 | £201,000 | £263,463 | 113 |
| 2018 | £185,600 | £247,408 | 238 |
| 2017 | £197,000 | £268,688 | 153 |
| 2016 | £185,500 | £259,516 | 134 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 134 |
| 2014 | £149,800 | £212,517 | 118 |
| 2013 | £126,500 | £182,021 | 90 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 78 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 75 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 103 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 80 |
| 2008 | £137,000 | £224,572 | 113 |
| 2007 | £162,000 | £274,797 | 335 |
| 2006 | £139,000 | £241,286 | 239 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 212 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 241 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 268 |
| 2002 | £88,500 | £166,512 | 285 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 213 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 234 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 265 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 226 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 177 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 170 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical LU1 3 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 171%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU1 3 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 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LU1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.2% | −15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in LU1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 253 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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 LU1 3
The local authority for LU1 3 is Luton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,217 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £904 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,811, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Luton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £230,000 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.
The shape of the LU1 3 market
This is a thin market: 27 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 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on LU1 3 (Aley Green)
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What happens to LU1 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in LU1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU1 district, not just LU1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LU1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in LU: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LU1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU1 1 | £231,000 | 28 |
| LU1 2 | £150,000 | 1 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LU1 3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LU1 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU1 3 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.
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.