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Bragenham market report LU7 4, Leighton Buzzard
The LU7 4 (Bragenham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,072 HM Land Registry entries for LU7 4 (Leighton Buzzard), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LU7 4 (Leighton Buzzard) sold for £346,000 in 2026, the median of 75 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £339,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,910 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,072 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 4 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 4 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 buyers actually paid in LU7 4
Across 75 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LU7 4 home went for £346,000. The mean is £339,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in LU7 4
By floor space, homes in LU7 4 have sold for about £3,910 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LU7 4 21% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LU7 4 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 | £346,000 | £346,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 193 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 144 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 132 |
| 2022 | £335,200 | £393,060 | 234 |
| 2021 | £314,500 | £398,198 | 276 |
| 2020 | £316,000 | £410,017 | 231 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 205 |
| 2018 | £284,000 | £378,577 | 216 |
| 2017 | £277,500 | £378,482 | 250 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 253 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 249 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 297 |
| 2013 | £199,500 | £287,061 | 262 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 255 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 236 |
| 2010 | £197,000 | £308,947 | 211 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 150 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 139 |
| 2007 | £203,000 | £344,345 | 367 |
| 2006 | £173,000 | £300,306 | 370 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 273 |
| 2004 | £162,200 | £294,587 | 476 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 284 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 287 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 321 |
| 2000 | £97,400 | £191,148 | 169 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 152 |
| 1998 | £72,800 | £146,952 | 70 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 139 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 79 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 77 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 4 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £346,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 218%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 4 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 1997 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.8% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 75 sales completed in LU7 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 318 sales a year before the financial crisis and 156 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 LU7 4
LU7 4 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 £346,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
LU7 4 (Bragenham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LU7 4 (Bragenham)?
Is LU7 4 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU7 4 (Bragenham)?
Are LU7 4 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 LU7 now
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 4: 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LU7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 0 | £433,500 | 63 |
| LU7 1 | £225,000 | 32 |
| LU7 2 | £368,800 | 86 |
| LU7 3 | £372,500 | 115 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU7 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU7 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU7 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LU7 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LU7 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LU7 4 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.