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Bragenham market report LU7 0, Leighton Buzzard
The standing LU7 0 (Bragenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,482 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU7 0 (Leighton Buzzard) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LU7 0 (Leighton Buzzard) home changed hands for £433,500 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £490,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,482 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LU7 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LU7 (Leighton Buzzard). 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 LU7 0 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 LU7 0 homes really sell for
Across 63 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU7 0 home went for £433,500. The mean is £490,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
LU7 0 prices by floor area
A square metre of LU7 0 home has cost about £4,560 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU7 0 52% above the country at large.
LU7 0'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 | £433,500 | £433,500 | 63 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 139 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 132 |
| 2023 | £460,000 | £505,428 | 105 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 195 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 233 |
| 2020 | £430,000 | £557,934 | 147 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 111 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 128 |
| 2017 | £374,800 | £511,190 | 178 |
| 2016 | £375,000 | £524,629 | 168 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 191 |
| 2014 | £297,500 | £422,056 | 184 |
| 2013 | £283,800 | £408,360 | 148 |
| 2012 | £260,000 | £382,688 | 105 |
| 2011 | £247,000 | £372,875 | 143 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 105 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 104 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 95 |
| 2007 | £276,200 | £468,512 | 226 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 221 |
| 2005 | £226,500 | £403,079 | 187 |
| 2004 | £214,000 | £388,666 | 238 |
| 2003 | £191,500 | £352,789 | 166 |
| 2002 | £176,100 | £331,331 | 256 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 208 |
| 2000 | £137,700 | £270,236 | 224 |
| 1999 | £127,500 | £254,101 | 241 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 209 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 221 |
| 1996 | £88,900 | £187,486 | 234 |
| 1995 | £81,000 | £176,082 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 0 home went from £81,000 in 1995 to £433,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 146%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 0 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 (+17.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.7% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 LU7 0
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.
The register shows 63 LU7 0 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 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
What kind of market LU7 0 is
Against the LU7 district median, LU7 0 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around LU7 0
The local authority for LU7 0 is Buckinghamshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,036 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,364, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Buckinghamshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, which against the £433,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
Common questions on LU7 0 (Bragenham)
Are property prices falling in LU7 0 (Bragenham)?
Is LU7 0 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU7 0 (Bragenham)?
Will LU7 0 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in LU7 today
The live side of the market holds 353 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU7 district, not just LU7 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Orchard Way, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard
- Wing Road, Leighton Buzzard
- Nine Lands, Hockliffe, Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard
"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 LU7 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in LU: the cost
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LU7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 1 | £225,000 | 32 |
| LU7 2 | £368,800 | 86 |
| LU7 3 | £372,500 | 115 |
| LU7 4 | £346,000 | 75 |
| LU7 9 | £397,500 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full LU7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LU7 0? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LU7 0'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 LU7 0.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU7 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual LU7 0 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.