Local market reports › LU area › LU6 › LU6 1
Eaton Bray market report LU6 1, Dunstable
The standing LU6 1 (Eaton Bray) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,301 HM Land Registry entries for LU6 1 (Dunstable), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LU6 1 (Dunstable) sold for £325,000 in 2026, the median of 70 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier. The mean was £314,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,730 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,301 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LU6 1 is one sector of LU6 (Dunstable): 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 LU6 1 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 LU6 1 prices, from the sold record
Take the 70 registered 2026 sales in LU6 1 and the middle price, the median, is £325,000. The mean lands at £314,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in LU6 1
Per square metre, LU6 1 homes have averaged around £3,730 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 LU6 1 14% above the country at large.
LU6 1'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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 70 |
| 2025 | £319,000 | £326,628 | 169 |
| 2024 | £291,500 | £309,924 | 148 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 154 |
| 2022 | £288,200 | £337,947 | 234 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 268 |
| 2020 | £258,500 | £335,409 | 178 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 276 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 232 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 288 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 349 |
| 2015 | £206,500 | £291,785 | 260 |
| 2014 | £182,000 | £258,199 | 277 |
| 2013 | £168,000 | £241,735 | 203 |
| 2012 | £162,500 | £239,180 | 198 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 184 |
| 2010 | £158,000 | £247,785 | 143 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 123 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 139 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 274 |
| 2006 | £153,500 | £266,456 | 329 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 233 |
| 2004 | £143,000 | £259,716 | 265 |
| 2003 | £133,500 | £245,939 | 301 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 328 |
| 2001 | £92,500 | £177,827 | 303 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 238 |
| 1999 | £68,500 | £136,517 | 290 |
| 1998 | £62,500 | £126,161 | 245 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 235 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 185 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 182 |
In cash terms the typical LU6 1 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 199%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LU6 1 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 (+24.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.9% | −0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
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.
The register shows 70 LU6 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 284 sales a year before the financial crisis and 155 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of LU6 1
LU6 1 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.
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.
The shape of the LU6 1 market
Within LU6, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
LU6 1 (Eaton Bray): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LU6 1 (Eaton Bray)?
Are property prices falling in LU6 1 (Eaton Bray)?
Is LU6 1 (Eaton Bray) a good place to buy a house?
Will LU6 1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
On the market in LU6 today
Turning to what is actually available: 49 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU6 district, not just LU6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Peppercorn Way, Dunstable, Bedfordshi...
- First Avenue, Dunstable, Dunstable
- High Street South, Dunstable, Bedford...
"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 LU6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 LU6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LU6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU6 2 | £555,000 | 45 |
| LU6 3 | £330,000 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full LU6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LU6 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU6 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU6 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU6 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working LU6 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LU6 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU6 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual LU6 1 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.
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.