Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 39,944 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LU7 (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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
LU7 is the postcode district covering Leighton Buzzard, Bragenham, Briggington in Leighton Buzzard. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LU7 sits
Click the map to open LU7 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£365,000median sold price, 2026
+6%five-year change (cash)
996sales in the last 12 months
4.1%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in LU7 sells for
The 2026 median in LU7 is £365,000, from 290 registered sales; the mean, £389,100, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so LU7 trades 33% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LU7 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£365,000
£365,000
290
2025
£357,100
£357,100
1,232
2024
£362,000
£375,892
1,232
2023
£370,000
£397,045
1,039
2022
£370,000
£423,734
1,525
2021
£345,000
£426,613
1,796
2020
£325,000
£411,846
1,250
2019
£307,500
£393,646
1,233
2018
£300,000
£390,566
1,107
2017
£290,000
£386,293
1,326
2016
£272,000
£371,644
1,273
2015
£242,000
£333,960
1,469
2014
£225,000
£311,747
1,374
2013
£205,000
£288,086
1,156
2012
£195,000
£280,313
949
2011
£188,700
£278,212
1,022
2010
£198,000
£303,263
1,004
2009
£175,000
£274,744
807
2008
£188,000
£300,974
654
2007
£200,000
£331,333
1,569
2006
£182,000
£308,550
1,737
2005
£167,000
£290,252
1,239
2004
£164,000
£290,900
1,603
2003
£150,000
£269,883
1,436
2002
£138,500
£254,501
1,649
2001
£110,200
£206,906
1,626
2000
£96,000
£184,000
1,247
1999
£80,000
£155,712
1,412
1998
£73,500
£144,900
1,138
1997
£66,200
£132,592
1,382
1996
£60,000
£123,582
1,231
1995
£59,000
£125,262
937
In cash terms the typical LU7 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 191%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% 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 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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+2.2%
+2.2%
5 years (since 2021)
+1.1%
−3.1%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.0%
−0.2%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.5%
+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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LU7 recorded 996 sales in the last 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 1,064 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.
What homes rent for around LU7
LU7 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.
Set against the £365,000 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.
Will LU7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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.
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.
Inside LU7, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.