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Eaton Bray market report LU6 3, Dunstable
The LU6 3 (Eaton Bray) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,022 registered sales in LU6 3 (Dunstable) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 LU6 3 (Dunstable) came in at £330,000, out of 56 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £325,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,022 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LU6 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LU6 (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 LU6 3 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 LU6 3
The LU6 3 median stands at £330,000 for 2026, built from 56 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £325,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in LU6 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LU6 3 sales average about £3,870 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LU6 3 sits 16% above the national market.
LU6 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £377,500 | £386,527 | 194 |
| 2024 | £337,500 | £358,832 | 162 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 132 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 198 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 288 |
| 2020 | £302,200 | £392,111 | 108 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 163 |
| 2018 | £306,000 | £407,904 | 208 |
| 2017 | £292,000 | £398,259 | 219 |
| 2016 | £252,500 | £353,250 | 266 |
| 2015 | £232,800 | £328,946 | 236 |
| 2014 | £226,500 | £321,330 | 248 |
| 2013 | £196,000 | £282,024 | 171 |
| 2012 | £190,200 | £279,951 | 150 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 126 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 130 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 149 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 129 |
| 2007 | £184,700 | £313,303 | 302 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 389 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 246 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 267 |
| 2003 | £149,800 | £275,968 | 270 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 318 |
| 2001 | £115,500 | £222,043 | 292 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 280 |
| 1999 | £91,500 | £182,355 | 363 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 250 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 241 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 239 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 232 |
In cash terms the typical LU6 3 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 127%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LU6 3 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 2001 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.6%). 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) | −12.6% | −14.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in LU6 3
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
LU6 3 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 296 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 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.
What kind of market LU6 3 is
This is a thin market: 56 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around LU6 3
For renting purposes LU6 3 sits in Central Bedfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,247 a month (May 2026). 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 £330,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
What people ask about LU6 3 (Eaton Bray)
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Will LU6 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
LU6's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 49 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU6 district, not just LU6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
What another bedroom costs in LU
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, LU area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LU6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU6 1 | £325,000 | 70 |
| LU6 2 | £555,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full LU6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LU6 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LU6 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU6 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU6 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every LU6 3 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.
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.