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Eaton Bray market report LU6 2, Dunstable
The LU6 2 (Eaton Bray) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,705 HM Land Registry entries for LU6 2 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for LU6 2 (Dunstable) is £555,000, from 45 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £579,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,770 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,705 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LU6 2 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 2 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 LU6 2 sells for
The 2026 median for LU6 2 is £555,000, taken from 45 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £579,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in LU6 2
By floor space, homes in LU6 2 have sold for about £4,770 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU6 2 95% above the country at large.
A typical LU6 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £555,000 | £555,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £513,500 | £525,779 | 156 |
| 2024 | £550,000 | £584,763 | 135 |
| 2023 | £597,500 | £656,507 | 104 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 130 |
| 2021 | £491,500 | £622,302 | 186 |
| 2020 | £488,500 | £633,839 | 148 |
| 2019 | £470,000 | £616,058 | 127 |
| 2018 | £490,000 | £653,179 | 121 |
| 2017 | £465,000 | £634,213 | 111 |
| 2016 | £453,000 | £633,751 | 146 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 143 |
| 2014 | £349,000 | £495,117 | 146 |
| 2013 | £371,000 | £533,832 | 118 |
| 2012 | £329,200 | £484,541 | 124 |
| 2011 | £335,000 | £505,721 | 95 |
| 2010 | £347,500 | £544,969 | 100 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 102 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 69 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 178 |
| 2006 | £306,000 | £531,177 | 187 |
| 2005 | £267,500 | £476,042 | 164 |
| 2004 | £270,000 | £490,373 | 162 |
| 2003 | £244,000 | £449,507 | 152 |
| 2002 | £235,000 | £442,150 | 244 |
| 2001 | £183,000 | £351,808 | 241 |
| 2000 | £175,000 | £343,438 | 159 |
| 1999 | £128,200 | £255,496 | 210 |
| 1998 | £122,000 | £246,266 | 163 |
| 1997 | £112,000 | £229,689 | 179 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 209 |
| 1995 | £107,000 | £232,602 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical LU6 2 home went from £107,000 in 1995 to £555,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU6 2 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 2010 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.8%). 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) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
LU6 2 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 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.
The shape of the LU6 2 market
This is a thin market: 45 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 LU6 district median, LU6 2 sits 56% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around LU6 2
The local authority for LU6 2 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, which against the £555,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.7%. 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.
LU6 2 (Eaton Bray): the questions that come up
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What happens to LU6 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in LU6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU6 district, not just LU6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- First Avenue, Dunstable, Dunstable
- High Street South, Dunstable, Bedford...
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LU6 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LU6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LU6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU6 1 | £325,000 | 70 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in LU6 2? 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 LU6 2'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 LU6 2.
Take it further
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See every individual LU6 2 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.