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Bidwell market report LU5 7, Dunstable
The standing LU5 7 (Bidwell) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 489 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU5 7 (Dunstable) since 2021, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 LU5 7 (Dunstable) came in at £355,000, out of 7 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £340,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,070 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 489 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 2021, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LU5 7 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 7 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 7
Across 7 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU5 7 home went for £355,000. The mean is £340,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in LU5 7
Per square metre, LU5 7 homes have averaged around £4,070 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU5 7 25% above the country at large.
LU5 7's median sold price, 2021 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 7 |
| 2025 | £377,700 | £386,732 | 59 |
| 2024 | £378,500 | £402,423 | 92 |
| 2023 | £375,100 | £412,143 | 140 |
| 2022 | £352,000 | £412,760 | 148 |
| 2021 | £322,500 | £408,327 | 43 |
In cash terms the typical LU5 7 home went from £322,500 in 2021 to £355,000 in 2026, a 10% rise. Deflate those figures and little remains: roughly -13% in real terms, which says the pounds changed more than the homes did. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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, 7 sales completed in LU5 7. 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.
How LU5 7 trades
This is a thin market: 7 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the LU5 district median, LU5 7 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of LU5 7
LU5 7 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £862 a month here against £2,039 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £355,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,247 a month (£14,964 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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: LU5 7 (Bidwell)
Is LU5 7 (Bidwell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU5 7 (Bidwell)?
Are property prices falling in LU5 7 (Bidwell)?
Are LU5 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
LU5's current homes for sale
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LU prices by size
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LU5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU5 4 | £325,000 | 73 |
| LU5 5 | £310,000 | 71 |
| LU5 6 | £370,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full LU5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LU5 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU5 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU5 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU5 7 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 LU5 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LU5 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LU5 7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.