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Aley Green market report LU1, Luton
The LU1 (Aley Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 19,710 registered sales in LU1 (Luton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LU1 (Luton) home changed hands for £260,000 in 2026 (median of 123 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £284,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 19,710 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district LU1 covering Luton (South), Aley Green, Caddington sits in Luton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LU1 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 prices, from the sold record
The LU1 median stands at £260,000 for 2026, built from 123 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £284,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LU1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LU1 sales average about £3,770 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LU1 runs 9% below it.
LU1's median sold price, 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 123 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 340 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 281 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 287 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 377 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 517 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 319 |
| 2019 | £249,000 | £326,379 | 432 |
| 2018 | £193,000 | £257,273 | 667 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 739 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 544 |
| 2015 | £174,500 | £246,569 | 546 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 524 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 387 |
| 2012 | £140,800 | £207,240 | 342 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 343 |
| 2010 | £136,000 | £213,283 | 370 |
| 2009 | £143,000 | £229,874 | 317 |
| 2008 | £144,500 | £236,866 | 457 |
| 2007 | £153,300 | £260,039 | 1,073 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 953 |
| 2005 | £129,500 | £230,458 | 821 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 994 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 1,045 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 1,179 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 1,023 |
| 2000 | £62,900 | £123,441 | 962 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 938 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 822 |
| 1997 | £42,900 | £87,979 | 767 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 668 |
| 1995 | £39,800 | £86,519 | 553 |
In cash terms the typical LU1 home went from £39,800 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 201%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU1 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £520,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, LU1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £520,000 | 15 | 1,801 |
| Semi-detached | £345,000 | 32 | 5,327 |
| Terraced | £258,000 | 47 | 8,227 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 29 | 4,355 |
What LU1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.5% | −19.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 283 sales completed in LU1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,006 sales a year before the financial crisis and 282 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.
Rents around LU1
The local authority for LU1 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 £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,217 a month (£14,604 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
How LU1 trades
By median price LU1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
Asked and answered: LU1 (Aley Green)
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What happens to LU1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in LU1 today
Everything above is what homes in LU1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% below the LU1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LU prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LU area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LU1 ranks 7 of 7 in the LU 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.
Winners and losers across the LU area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LU1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| LU1 5 | £268,000 | 37 |
How LU1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LU area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 | £370,000 | +7% |
| LU6 | £355,000 | +11% |
| LU2 | £334,000 | +17% |
| LU3 | £325,000 | +16% |
| LU5 | £320,500 | +7% |
| LU4 | £315,000 | +19% |
| LU1 (this report) | £260,000 | -7% |
Selling a home in LU1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU1, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU1 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.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every LU1 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.