marketcodeSold price per m²
£2,420/m² 12 months to Apr 2026
439 sales
+1.3% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.
Postcode district
LE5 property market
Sold £2,420/m² · Median sold £271,303 (425 sales) · Index +1.3% y/y · Turnover 1.5% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026
What is LE5?
- Buildings
- 2,388
- Mixed-use buildings
- 1.7%
- HMO-shaped units
- 0.0%
What does LE5 cost?
LE5: sold price per m² £2,420/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 439 sales). +1.3% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.
Sold price
£271,303 12 months to Apr 2026
425 sales
+1.3% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.
Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.
Asking price
£288,550 12 months to Aug 2026
1,189 listings
-1.5% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).
Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.
ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices
What does LE5 earn?
LE5: asking rent £1,061 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 422 lets).
Asking rent
£1,061 a month 12 months to Jul 2026
422 lets
Gross yield, asking basis
4.3% 12 months to Aug 2026
673 lets
-2.2% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.
How does LE5 vary by home size?
Asking price in LE5 runs from £98,593 for 1 bedroom to £505,279 for 5+ bedrooms.
| Homes | Asking price | Window | Change | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | £98,593 | 12 months to Aug 2026 | — | 57 |
| 2 bedrooms | £204,601 | 12 months to Aug 2026 | +1% on the previous 12 months | 228 |
| 3 bedrooms | £284,343 | 12 months to Aug 2026 | -2% on the previous 12 months | 571 |
| 4 bedrooms | £418,105 | 12 months to Aug 2026 | +6.9% on the previous 12 months | 243 |
| 5+ bedrooms | £505,279 | 12 months to Aug 2026 | -5.5% on the previous 12 months | 98 |
Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
How liquid is LE5?
LE5: turnover 1.5% (12 months to Jan 2026, 473 sales). -1.5% on the previous 12 months.
Turnover
1.5% 12 months to Jan 2026
473 sales
-1.5% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.
Completed sales
653 12 months to Jan 2026
653 sales
+5% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.
Listings for sale
746 12 months to Jul 2026
746 listings
Who is active in LE5?
48 agents listed homes for sale in LE5; the three largest took 20% of the listings.
- Agents active
- 48
- Top three agents’ share
- 20%
- New homes among listings
- 0.0%
days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.
Who owns LE5?
Corporate landlords hold 81% of the 1,929 units in LE5 whose freeholder is classified; 94% of all units are not yet classified.
- Corporate landlords81% of classified · 1,556 units
- Individuals (not traceable in bulk)11% of classified · 211 units
- Housing associations7.8% of classified · 150 units
- RMC0.6% of classified · 11 units
- Offshore companies0.1% of classified · 1 units
Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.
Where does LE5 rank?
LE5 ranks 2nd of 2 postcode districts in City of Leicester for sold price per m², at £2,420/m².
Sold price per m² · postcode districts in City of Leicester
LE5 ranks 2nd of 2 postcode districts in City of Leicester for sold price per m², at £2,420/m².
| # | Area | Sold price per m² | Sample | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LE3 | £2,706/m² | 756 | measured |
| 2 | LE5 | £2,420/m² | 439 | measured |
Gross yield, asking basis · postcode districts in City of Leicester
LE5 ranks 3rd of 3 postcode districts in City of Leicester for gross yield, asking basis, at 4.3%.
Turnover · postcode districts in City of Leicester
Where next from LE5?
- City of LeicesterThe wider market this area sits in.
- LE1Neighbouring postcode district · £1,730/m²
- LE3Neighbouring postcode district · £3,034/m²
- LE2Next door, in another authority · £3,098/m²
- LE4Next door, in another authority · £3,422/m²
- LE7Next door, in another authority · £3,771/m²
- Homes for sale in LE5Live sale listings, the same place and cohort.
- Homes to rent in LE5Live lettings, the same place.
- Completed sales in LE5Registered completions, newest first.
- Planning applications in LE5Applications and decisions on record.
- Buildings in LE5Every building with its units, parcel and freeholder.
- Land in LE5Parcels, titles and adjacent ownership.
- Properties in LE5Every addressable home with its floor area, tenure and last sale.
- Estate agents in LE5Who actually lists here, ranked by volume over 12 months.
Questions about LE5
- What is the median house price in LE5?
- Homes in LE5 sold for a median £271,303 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 425 sales. Per square metre that is £2,420/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.
- How have house prices in LE5 changed?
- +1.3% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.
- What is the average rent in LE5?
- Homes to let in LE5 asked a median £1,061 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 422 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.
- What is the gross rental yield in LE5?
- 4.3% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 673 lets. -2.2% on the previous 12 months.
- How quickly do homes sell in LE5?
- 1.5% of the homes in LE5 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 473 sales.
Where these figures come from
| Figure | Dataset | Window | Last month | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sold price per m² | HM Land Registry Price Paid and portal listings, monthly rollup | 12 months to Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 | 439 sales |
| Sold price | HM Land Registry Price Paid and portal listings, monthly rollup | 12 months to Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 | 425 sales |
| Asking price | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 1,189 listings |
| Asking price per m² | the area_facts listing rollup | 12 months to Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 | 746 listings |
| Asking to sold | Portal listings, monthly rollup | 12 months to Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 | 67 matched sales |
| Asking rent | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 | 422 lets |
| Gross yield, asking basis | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 673 lets |
| Turnover | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 | 473 sales |
| Completed sales | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 | 653 sales |
| Listings for sale | the area_facts listing rollup | 12 months to Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 | 746 listings |
| New listings | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 794 listings |
| Price reductions | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 395 listings |
| Live listings | MarketCode market evidence | on 19 Sep 2026 | 19 Sep 2026 | — |
| Days to completion |
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