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Eaton Bray market report LU6, Dunstable
The LU6 (Eaton Bray) 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: 19,029 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU6 (Dunstable) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical LU6 (Dunstable) home changed hands for £355,000 in 2026 (median of 171 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £387,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,050 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 19,029 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district LU6 covering Dunstable (West), Eaton Bray, Edlesborough sits in Dunstable. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LU6 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 prices, from the sold record
In the LU6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £355,000, from 171 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £387,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
LU6 prices by floor area
A square metre of LU6 home has cost about £4,050 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LU6 trades 25% above the country as a whole.
LU6'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 171 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 519 |
| 2024 | £353,000 | £375,312 | 445 |
| 2023 | £343,500 | £377,423 | 390 |
| 2022 | £344,000 | £403,379 | 562 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 742 |
| 2020 | £308,000 | £399,636 | 434 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 566 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 561 |
| 2017 | £289,500 | £394,849 | 618 |
| 2016 | £247,000 | £345,555 | 761 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 639 |
| 2014 | £209,000 | £296,503 | 671 |
| 2013 | £192,200 | £276,557 | 492 |
| 2012 | £194,000 | £285,544 | 473 |
| 2011 | £186,000 | £280,788 | 405 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 373 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 374 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 337 |
| 2007 | £183,000 | £310,419 | 754 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 905 |
| 2005 | £173,000 | £307,870 | 643 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 694 |
| 2003 | £147,000 | £270,810 | 723 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 890 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 836 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 677 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 863 |
| 1998 | £73,800 | £148,971 | 658 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 655 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 633 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 565 |
In cash terms the typical LU6 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% 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 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 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £585,000 against £145,000 for a flat, 4.0 times the price.
Median by property type, LU6
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £585,000 | 38 | 4,700 |
| Semi-detached | £387,500 | 48 | 5,561 |
| Terraced | £316,200 | 56 | 5,305 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 29 | 3,463 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LU6
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
LU6 recorded 403 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 765 sales a year before the financial crisis and 417 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.
Rents around LU6
LU6 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £355,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: LU6 (Eaton Bray)
How much did a house sell for in LU6 (Eaton Bray)?
Are property prices falling in LU6 (Eaton Bray)?
Is LU6 (Eaton Bray) a good place to buy a house?
Will LU6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in LU6 now
Everything above is what homes in LU6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the LU6 median sold price.
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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LU
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LU area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LU6 ranks 4 of 7 in the LU area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the LU area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LU6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU6 1 | £325,000 | 70 |
| LU6 2 | £555,000 | 45 |
| LU6 3 | £330,000 | 56 |
How LU6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LU area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 | £370,000 | +7% |
| LU6 (this report) | £355,000 | +11% |
| LU2 | £334,000 | +17% |
| LU3 | £325,000 | +16% |
| LU5 | £320,500 | +7% |
| LU4 | £315,000 | +19% |
| LU1 | £260,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in LU6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LU6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LU6.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU6. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LU6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.