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Bragenham market report LU7 9, Leighton Buzzard
The LU7 9 (Bragenham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,468 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU7 9 (Leighton Buzzard) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LU7 9 (Leighton Buzzard) came in at £397,500, out of 66 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £437,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,480 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,468 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LU7 9 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 9 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 9
In the LU7 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £397,500, from 66 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £437,600, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
LU7 9 prices by floor area
Per square metre, LU7 9 homes have averaged around £4,480 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LU7 9 runs 39% above it.
The price of a typical LU7 9 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 | £397,500 | £397,500 | 66 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 157 |
| 2024 | £402,000 | £427,409 | 151 |
| 2023 | £382,500 | £420,274 | 100 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 200 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 283 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 153 |
| 2019 | £342,500 | £448,936 | 229 |
| 2018 | £348,000 | £463,891 | 206 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 196 |
| 2016 | £334,000 | £467,269 | 195 |
| 2015 | £277,200 | £391,684 | 278 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 241 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 143 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 109 |
| 2011 | £242,000 | £365,327 | 143 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 161 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 93 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 74 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 144 |
| 2006 | £247,500 | £429,628 | 213 |
| 2005 | £239,000 | £425,324 | 143 |
| 2004 | £244,000 | £443,152 | 154 |
| 2003 | £244,000 | £449,507 | 239 |
| 2002 | £188,000 | £353,720 | 245 |
| 2001 | £152,500 | £293,173 | 224 |
| 2000 | £131,000 | £257,088 | 163 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 181 |
| 1998 | £96,000 | £193,783 | 134 |
| 1997 | £87,500 | £179,445 | 161 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 165 |
| 1995 | £78,500 | £170,647 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 9 home went from £78,500 in 1995 to £397,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 9 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 1999 (+35.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.4%). 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) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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 9
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.
LU7 9 recorded 66 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
The rental side of LU7 9
LU7 9 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £862 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,039, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £397,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
Asked and answered: LU7 9 (Bragenham)
Is LU7 9 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU7 9 (Bragenham)?
Are property prices falling in LU7 9 (Bragenham)?
Will LU7 9 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in LU7 right now
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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. 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%) | — |
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. 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
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 4 | £346,000 | 75 |
Zoom out to the full LU7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LU7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LU7 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU7 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU7 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU7 9 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 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LU7 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LU7 9 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.