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Bragenham market report LU7 1, Leighton Buzzard
The LU7 1 (Bragenham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,925 registered sales in LU7 1 (Leighton Buzzard) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LU7 1 (Leighton Buzzard) came in at £225,000, out of 32 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £262,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,925 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LU7 1 is one sector of LU7 (Leighton Buzzard): 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 LU7 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.
What a home in LU7 1 sells for
In the LU7 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £225,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £262,200, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in LU7 1
A square metre of LU7 1 home has cost about £3,640 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 1 21% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LU7 1 home, 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 122 |
| 2024 | £238,000 | £253,043 | 98 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 82 |
| 2022 | £231,000 | £270,874 | 108 |
| 2021 | £219,900 | £278,422 | 121 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 68 |
| 2019 | £221,000 | £289,678 | 88 |
| 2018 | £233,200 | £310,860 | 100 |
| 2017 | £229,500 | £313,015 | 132 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 156 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 184 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 137 |
| 2013 | £149,200 | £214,684 | 108 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 101 |
| 2011 | £139,000 | £209,837 | 101 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 138 |
| 2009 | £137,500 | £221,032 | 90 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 75 |
| 2007 | £158,000 | £268,012 | 168 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 236 |
| 2005 | £132,500 | £235,797 | 135 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 139 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 144 |
| 2002 | £112,800 | £212,232 | 188 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 175 |
| 2000 | £77,000 | £151,113 | 123 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 131 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 108 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 161 |
| 1996 | £46,800 | £98,699 | 112 |
| 1995 | £45,100 | £98,040 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 1 home went from £45,100 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 129%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 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 (+41.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LU7 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in LU7 1
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in LU7 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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 tenants pay around LU7 1
For renting purposes LU7 1 sits in Central Bedfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,247 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, which against the £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. 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.
The shape of the LU7 1 market
This is a thin market: 32 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the LU7 district median, LU7 1 sits 39% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on LU7 1 (Bragenham)
Is LU7 1 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU7 1 (Bragenham)?
Are property prices falling in LU7 1 (Bragenham)?
Are LU7 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in LU7 today
Turning to what is actually available: 353 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU7 district, not just LU7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
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. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LU7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LU7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 0 | £433,500 | 63 |
| 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 in LU7 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LU7 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU7 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU7 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU7 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LU7 1 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.
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.