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Bragenham market report LU7 2, Leighton Buzzard
The LU7 2 (Bragenham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,382 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LU7 2 (Leighton Buzzard) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in LU7 2 (Leighton Buzzard) sold for £368,800 in 2026, the median of 86 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £390,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,330 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,382 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like LU7 2 is a single group of streets within LU7 (Leighton Buzzard), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LU7 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.
LU7 2 sold prices: where the market stands
86 sales were registered in LU7 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £368,800. The mean works out at £390,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LU7 2
By floor space, homes in LU7 2 have sold for about £4,330 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LU7 2 sits 29% above the national market.
The price of a typical LU7 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £368,800 | £368,800 | 86 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 175 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 143 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 168 |
| 2022 | £348,800 | £409,008 | 196 |
| 2021 | £333,000 | £421,621 | 229 |
| 2020 | £303,500 | £393,798 | 151 |
| 2019 | £307,500 | £403,059 | 140 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 177 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 195 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 185 |
| 2015 | £231,400 | £326,968 | 223 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 210 |
| 2013 | £193,800 | £278,859 | 230 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 176 |
| 2011 | £180,500 | £272,486 | 178 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 184 |
| 2009 | £172,800 | £277,777 | 206 |
| 2008 | £169,100 | £277,191 | 169 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 313 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 332 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 234 |
| 2004 | £157,500 | £286,051 | 280 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 300 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 335 |
| 2001 | £96,500 | £185,516 | 345 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 284 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 346 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 303 |
| 1997 | £59,700 | £122,433 | 350 |
| 1996 | £55,500 | £117,047 | 291 |
| 1995 | £54,200 | £117,822 | 248 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 2 home went from £54,200 in 1995 to £368,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 213%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 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 2002 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). 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) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LU7 2
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 86 LU7 2 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 303 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 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 2
The local authority for LU7 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.
Set against the £368,800 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Common questions on LU7 2 (Bragenham)
How much did a house sell for in LU7 2 (Bragenham)?
Are property prices falling in LU7 2 (Bragenham)?
Is LU7 2 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
Will LU7 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
LU7's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 353 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LU7 district, not just LU7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in LU
Real sold prices by size across the LU area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 LU7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LU7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 0 | £433,500 | 63 |
| LU7 1 | £225,000 | 32 |
| 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 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LU7 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LU7 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LU7 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LU7 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU7 2 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.
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.