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Bidwell market report LU5 4, Dunstable
The LU5 4 (Bidwell) 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: 7,297 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU5 4 (Dunstable) 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: a typical LU5 4 (Dunstable) home changed hands for £325,000 in 2026 (median of 73 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £308,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,297 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LU5 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LU5 (Dunstable). 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 LU5 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 LU5 4
Take the 73 registered 2026 sales in LU5 4 and the middle price, the median, is £325,000. The mean lands at £308,600, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
LU5 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LU5 4 costs about £3,740 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LU5 4 14% above the national figure.
A typical LU5 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 196 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 157 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 177 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 231 |
| 2021 | £284,000 | £359,581 | 301 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 239 |
| 2019 | £258,000 | £338,176 | 274 |
| 2018 | £278,000 | £370,579 | 225 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 251 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 344 |
| 2015 | £192,000 | £271,296 | 239 |
| 2014 | £188,000 | £266,711 | 216 |
| 2013 | £162,000 | £233,102 | 189 |
| 2012 | £171,000 | £251,691 | 138 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 129 |
| 2010 | £162,200 | £254,371 | 124 |
| 2009 | £147,000 | £236,304 | 141 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 152 |
| 2007 | £171,100 | £290,233 | 438 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 391 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 270 |
| 2004 | £148,500 | £269,705 | 310 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 247 |
| 2002 | £118,500 | £222,957 | 282 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 269 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 210 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 267 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 213 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 235 |
| 1996 | £53,200 | £112,196 | 218 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical LU5 4 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 182%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 13% 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 LU5 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 2002 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
LU5 4 recorded 73 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 302 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 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 LU5 4
The local authority for LU5 4 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £862 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,039 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
LU5 4 (Bidwell): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LU5 4 (Bidwell)?
Are property prices falling in LU5 4 (Bidwell)?
Is LU5 4 (Bidwell) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LU5 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in LU5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU5 district, not just LU5 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
- Dunstable Road, Toddington, Dunstable...
- Luton Road, Toddington, Bedfordshire, LU5
- Frenchmans Close, Toddington, Bedfordshire, Toddington
"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 LU5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LU
Real sold prices by size across the LU area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LU5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LU5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU5 5 | £310,000 | 71 |
| LU5 6 | £370,000 | 53 |
| LU5 7 | £355,000 | 7 |
Zoom out to the full LU5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LU5 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LU5 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LU5 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LU5 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU5 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.
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.