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Aley Green market report LU1 4, Luton
The LU1 4 (Aley Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,644 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU1 4 (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: the 2026 median for LU1 4 (Luton) is £411,500, from 30 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £423,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,644 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LU1 4 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 4 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 buyers actually paid in LU1 4
Across 30 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU1 4 home went for £411,500. The mean is £423,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in LU1 4
Per square metre, LU1 4 homes have averaged around £4,660 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LU1 4 sits 44% above the national market.
The price of a typical LU1 4 home, 1995 to 2026
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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £411,500 | £411,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 103 |
| 2024 | £427,500 | £454,520 | 87 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 77 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 111 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 214 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 115 |
| 2019 | £385,000 | £504,643 | 136 |
| 2018 | £381,000 | £507,880 | 106 |
| 2017 | £391,000 | £533,285 | 140 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 85 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 101 |
| 2014 | £262,000 | £371,693 | 111 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 102 |
| 2012 | £238,000 | £350,306 | 71 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 87 |
| 2010 | £216,500 | £339,528 | 81 |
| 2009 | £222,500 | £357,671 | 87 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 77 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 126 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 141 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 107 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 131 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 125 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 155 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 191 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 128 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 134 |
| 1998 | £95,800 | £193,379 | 122 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 150 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 108 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical LU1 4 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £411,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 170%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU1 4 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 1997 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−14.6%). 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) | −6.5% | −8.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in LU1 4
The year-by-year sales count
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, 30 sales completed in LU1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around LU1 4
LU1 4 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £862 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,039, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £411,500 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
What kind of market LU1 4 is
This is a thin market: 30 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the LU1 district median, LU1 4 sits 58% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
LU1 4 (Aley Green): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LU1 4 (Aley Green)?
Are property prices falling in LU1 4 (Aley Green)?
Is LU1 4 (Aley Green) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LU1 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in LU1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 54 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU1 district, not just LU1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in LU
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the LU area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £231,000 | 28 |
| LU1 2 | £150,000 | 1 |
| LU1 3 | £230,000 | 27 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LU1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LU1 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LU1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU1 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.