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Chalton market report LU4 0, Luton
The standing LU4 0 (Chalton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,932 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU4 0 (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: 61 registered 2026 sales put the LU4 0 (Luton) median at £322,000, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £320,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,990 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,932 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LU4 0 is one sector of LU4 (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 LU4 0 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 LU4 0 homes really sell for
Across 61 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU4 0 home went for £322,000. The mean is £320,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in LU4 0
A square metre of LU4 0 home has cost about £3,990 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU4 0 13% above the country at large.
LU4 0's median sold price, 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 | £322,000 | £322,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 158 |
| 2024 | £302,500 | £321,620 | 102 |
| 2023 | £313,000 | £343,911 | 119 |
| 2022 | £302,500 | £354,716 | 194 |
| 2021 | £268,000 | £339,323 | 181 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 127 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 155 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 151 |
| 2017 | £244,800 | £333,883 | 184 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 195 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 205 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 231 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 175 |
| 2012 | £146,500 | £215,630 | 143 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 129 |
| 2010 | £148,800 | £233,357 | 128 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 141 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 169 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 320 |
| 2006 | £144,500 | £250,834 | 318 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 295 |
| 2004 | £133,500 | £242,462 | 311 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 324 |
| 2002 | £97,200 | £182,881 | 408 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 331 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 289 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 332 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 312 |
| 1997 | £46,200 | £94,747 | 312 |
| 1996 | £45,500 | £95,957 | 237 |
| 1995 | £44,200 | £96,084 | 195 |
In cash terms the typical LU4 0 home went from £44,200 in 1995 to £322,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 235%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LU4 0 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 (+24.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.6%). 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) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
Sales activity in LU4 0
Sales per year, counted
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, 61 sales completed in LU4 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 325 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
The rental side of LU4 0
The local authority for LU4 0 is Luton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,217 a month is £14,604 a year, which against the £322,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about LU4 0 (Chalton)
How much did a house sell for in LU4 0 (Chalton)?
Are property prices falling in LU4 0 (Chalton)?
Is LU4 0 (Chalton) a good place to buy a house?
Will LU4 0 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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 is for sale in LU4 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 52 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU4 district, not just LU4 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Rodeheath, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4
- Toland Close, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4
- Chester Avenue, LUTON, Bedfordshire, LU4
"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 LU4 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.
What another bedroom costs in LU
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%) | — |
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.
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 LU4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU4 8 | £285,000 | 24 |
| LU4 9 | £302,500 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full LU4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LU4 0? 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 LU4 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU4 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU4 0 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 LU4 0.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LU4 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU4 0 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.
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.