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Bragenham market report LU7, Leighton Buzzard
The standing LU7 (Bragenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 38,863 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LU7 (Leighton Buzzard) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 437 registered 2026 sales put the LU7 (Leighton Buzzard) median at £370,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £398,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 38,863 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district LU7 covering Leighton Buzzard, Bragenham, Briggington sits in Leighton Buzzard. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LU7 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 homes really sell for
The LU7 median stands at £370,000 for 2026, built from 437 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £398,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LU7
The last five years of sales put LU7 at roughly £4,220 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LU7 sits 30% above the national market.
A typical LU7 home, priced year by year (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 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 437 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 1,202 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 1,076 |
| 2023 | £373,500 | £410,385 | 936 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 1,421 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 1,666 |
| 2020 | £331,500 | £430,128 | 1,148 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 1,113 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 1,002 |
| 2017 | £293,800 | £400,714 | 1,180 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 1,193 |
| 2015 | £245,300 | £346,609 | 1,380 |
| 2014 | £227,000 | £322,039 | 1,321 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 1,147 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 949 |
| 2011 | £188,700 | £284,864 | 1,022 |
| 2010 | £198,000 | £310,515 | 1,004 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 807 |
| 2008 | £188,000 | £308,172 | 654 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 1,569 |
| 2006 | £182,000 | £315,929 | 1,737 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 1,239 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 1,603 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 1,436 |
| 2002 | £138,500 | £260,587 | 1,649 |
| 2001 | £110,200 | £211,854 | 1,626 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 1,246 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 1,412 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 1,138 |
| 1997 | £66,200 | £135,763 | 1,382 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 1,231 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 937 |
In cash terms the typical LU7 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 188%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LU7 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 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £536,200 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, LU7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £536,200 | 114 | 10,242 |
| Semi-detached | £380,000 | 139 | 11,217 |
| Terraced | £320,000 | 131 | 12,191 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 53 | 5,213 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 952 LU7 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 1,513 sales a year before the financial crisis and 1,014 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.
The rental side of LU7
The local authority for LU7 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £370,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,247 a month (£14,964 a year) works out at a 4.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How LU7 trades
LU7 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Common questions on LU7 (Bragenham)
Is LU7 (Bragenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LU7 (Bragenham)?
Are property prices falling in LU7 (Bragenham)?
Where do LU7 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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
Everything above is what homes in LU7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 353 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the LU7 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LU prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the LU area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LU7 ranks 5 of 7 in the LU area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
LU area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LU7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| LU7 9 | £397,500 | 66 |
How LU7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LU area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LU7 (this report) | £370,000 | +7% |
| LU6 | £355,000 | +11% |
| LU2 | £334,000 | +17% |
| LU3 | £325,000 | +16% |
| LU5 | £320,500 | +7% |
| LU4 | £315,000 | +19% |
| LU1 | £260,000 | -7% |
Before you sell in LU7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LU7, open the average prices map and zoom from the LU7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LU7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LU7.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every LU7 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.