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Chiltern Green market report LU2 9, Luton
The LU2 9 (Chiltern Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,868 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LU2 9 (Luton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LU2 9 (Luton) came in at £342,500, out of 54 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £335,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,868 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LU2 9 is one sector of LU2 (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 LU2 9 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 a home in LU2 9 sells for
Take the 54 registered 2026 sales in LU2 9 and the middle price, the median, is £342,500. The mean lands at £335,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in LU2 9
Per square metre, LU2 9 homes have averaged around £4,080 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LU2 9 20% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LU2 9 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £342,500 | £342,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £315,500 | £323,045 | 132 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 100 |
| 2023 | £309,000 | £339,516 | 106 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 143 |
| 2021 | £273,000 | £345,653 | 199 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 103 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 136 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 117 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 148 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 171 |
| 2015 | £218,800 | £309,164 | 184 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 200 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 123 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 158 |
| 2011 | £153,200 | £231,273 | 130 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 121 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 127 |
| 2008 | £160,500 | £263,093 | 113 |
| 2007 | £166,200 | £281,921 | 252 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 237 |
| 2005 | £144,500 | £257,152 | 242 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 257 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 265 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 311 |
| 2001 | £86,000 | £165,331 | 283 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 254 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 307 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 262 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 265 |
| 1996 | £47,500 | £100,175 | 195 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical LU2 9 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £342,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 232%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU2 9 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 2002 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.3%). 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) | +8.6% | +6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
LU2 9 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.
Reading the LU2 9 market
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LU2 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around LU2 9
LU2 9 falls under Luton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,217 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £904 a month here against £1,811 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Luton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £342,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,217 a month (£14,604 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
Asked and answered: LU2 9 (Chiltern Green)
Is LU2 9 (Chiltern Green) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU2 9 (Chiltern Green)?
Are property prices falling in LU2 9 (Chiltern Green)?
Will LU2 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in LU2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 47 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU2 district, not just LU2 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% 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.
- Greenside Park, LUTON, Bedfordshire, LU2
- Preston Gardens, Luton, Bedfordshire, Luton
- 146 Midland Road, Town Centre, Luton, LU2, Luton
"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 LU2 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
Real sold prices by size across the LU area, straight 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Winners and losers across the LU area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LU2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU2 0 | £300,000 | 50 |
| LU2 7 | £335,000 | 95 |
| LU2 8 | £350,000 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full LU2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LU2 9: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU2 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU2 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU2 9 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 LU2 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU2 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU2 9 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.