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Aley Green market report LU1 5, Luton
The LU1 5 (Aley Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,080 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU1 5 (Luton) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LU1 5 (Luton) sold for £268,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £256,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,080 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LU1 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LU1 (Luton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LU1 5 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.
The going rate for a home in LU1 5
In the LU1 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £268,000, from 37 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £256,400, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
LU1 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in LU1 5 have sold for about £3,490 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU1 5 6% below the country at large.
A typical LU1 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £268,000 | £268,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 105 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 78 |
| 2023 | £306,000 | £336,219 | 76 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 89 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 103 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 73 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 103 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 197 |
| 2017 | £76,000 | £103,656 | 305 |
| 2016 | £207,000 | £289,595 | 153 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 166 |
| 2014 | £167,000 | £236,919 | 171 |
| 2013 | £143,800 | £206,914 | 98 |
| 2012 | £132,000 | £194,288 | 97 |
| 2011 | £129,000 | £194,740 | 95 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 98 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 75 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 105 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 261 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 226 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 203 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 259 |
| 2003 | £120,200 | £221,438 | 250 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 260 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 247 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 257 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 231 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 189 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 186 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 160 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical LU1 5 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £268,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 208%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LU1 5 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 2019 (+81.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−63.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.8% | −14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LU1 5
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, 37 sales completed in LU1 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 245 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 5
LU1 5 falls under Luton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,217 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £268,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,217 a month (£14,604 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Reading the LU1 5 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LU1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 LU1 5 (Aley Green)
Are property prices falling in LU1 5 (Aley Green)?
Is LU1 5 (Aley Green) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU1 5 (Aley Green)?
Are LU1 5 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in LU1 now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Cowper Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1
- Lawford Close, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1
- Crosslands, Caddington, LU1
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LU1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in LU
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
LU area districts: five years of change
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 1 | £231,000 | 28 |
| LU1 2 | £150,000 | 1 |
| LU1 3 | £230,000 | 27 |
| LU1 4 | £411,500 | 30 |
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 5? 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 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LU1 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU1 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LU1 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.