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Bragenham market report LU7 3, Leighton Buzzard
The standing LU7 3 (Bragenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,467 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU7 3 (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: the middle 2026 sale in LU7 3 (Leighton Buzzard) came in at £372,500, out of 115 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £408,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,230 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,467 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like LU7 3 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 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 LU7 3 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for LU7 3 is £372,500, taken from 115 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £408,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
LU7 3 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put LU7 3 at roughly £4,230 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LU7 3 31% above the country at large.
LU7 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £372,500 | £372,500 | 115 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 415 |
| 2024 | £397,000 | £422,093 | 407 |
| 2023 | £412,200 | £452,907 | 349 |
| 2022 | £376,500 | £441,489 | 488 |
| 2021 | £359,200 | £454,794 | 523 |
| 2020 | £341,200 | £442,714 | 398 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 339 |
| 2018 | £291,000 | £387,908 | 173 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 229 |
| 2016 | £257,500 | £360,245 | 235 |
| 2015 | £237,000 | £334,881 | 253 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 252 |
| 2013 | £192,000 | £276,269 | 255 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 201 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 220 |
| 2010 | £187,300 | £293,735 | 204 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 163 |
| 2008 | £179,500 | £294,238 | 102 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 349 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 362 |
| 2005 | £155,500 | £276,727 | 264 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 313 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 298 |
| 2002 | £122,500 | £230,483 | 334 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £190,322 | 349 |
| 2000 | £86,700 | £170,149 | 278 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 355 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 311 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 345 |
| 1996 | £54,500 | £114,938 | 342 |
| 1995 | £55,100 | £119,779 | 246 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 3 home went from £55,100 in 1995 to £372,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 211%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 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 2002 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 115 LU7 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 355 sales a year over the last five years against 318 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around LU7 3
LU7 3 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, which against the £372,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
What people ask about LU7 3 (Bragenham)
How much did a house sell for in LU7 3 (Bragenham)?
Are property prices falling in LU7 3 (Bragenham)?
Is LU7 3 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
Where do LU7 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Orchard Way, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard
- Wing Road, Leighton Buzzard
- Nine Lands, Hockliffe, Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard
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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
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 2 | £368,800 | 86 |
| 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.
Before you sell in LU7 3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LU7 3'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 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LU7 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual LU7 3 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.
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.