What is the median house price in LU5?

Homes in LU5 sold for a median £331,385 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 468 sales. Per square metre that is £4,012/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in LU5?

Homes to let in LU5 asked a median £1,468 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 329 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in LU5?

4.8% 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, 548 lets. +7.1% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in LU5?

2.9% of the homes in LU5 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 611 sales.

Postcode district

LU5 property market

Sold £4,012/m² · Median sold £331,385 (468 sales) · Index -0.1% y/y · Turnover 2.9% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is LU5?

Buildings: 14,897
Mixed-use buildings: 48%
HMO-shaped units: 9.0%

What does LU5 cost?

LU5: sold price per m² £4,012/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 468 sales). -0.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£4,012/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

468 sales

-0.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£331,385 12 months to Apr 2026

468 sales

-0.1% 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

£364,454 12 months to Aug 2026

1,566 listings

-3.8% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £3,043/m² in Jul 2016 to £4,084/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £242,365 in Jul 2016 to £329,363 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £325,000 in Jan 2022 to £365,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £4,033/m² in Aug 2025 to £3,801/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 104% in Jan 2022 to 97% in Nov 2024.

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

Asking price index: 100.8 in Jan 2022 to 105.6 in Aug 2026.

What does LU5 earn?

LU5: asking rent £1,468 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 329 lets).

Asking rent

£1,468 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

329 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.8% 12 months to Aug 2026

548 lets

+7.1% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,520 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,490 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 4.4% in Jan 2022 to 4.9% in Aug 2026.

How does LU5 vary by home size?

Asking price in LU5 runs from £155,124 for 1 bedroom to £685,859 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in LU5, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£155,124	12 months to Aug 2026	-5% on the previous 12 months	101
2 bedrooms	£246,687	12 months to Aug 2026	-6.5% on the previous 12 months	415
3 bedrooms	£382,950	12 months to Aug 2026	-1.7% on the previous 12 months	650
4 bedrooms	£478,425	12 months to Aug 2026	-2.6% on the previous 12 months	327
5+ bedrooms	£685,859	12 months to Aug 2026	—	94

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 LU5?

LU5: turnover 2.9% (12 months to Jan 2026, 611 sales). -1.9% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.9% 12 months to Jan 2026

611 sales

-1.9% 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

794 12 months to Jan 2026

794 sales

+10.4% 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

890 12 months to Jul 2026

890 listings

Who is active in LU5?

34 agents listed homes for sale in LU5; the three largest took 34% of the listings.

Agents active: 34
Top three agents’ share: 34%
New homes among listings: 18%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns LU5?

Corporate landlords hold 68% of the 674 units in LU5 whose freeholder is classified; 97% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords68% of classified · 461 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)21% of classified · 141 units
Housing associations9.6% of classified · 65 units
RMC1.0% of classified · 7 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 LU5 rank?

LU5 ranks 8th of 9 postcode districts in Central Bedfordshire for sold price per m², at £4,012/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in Central Bedfordshire