That is the middle of 316 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Anstey’s sales are semi-detached houses
316 homes sold in three years: 103 detached houses, 113 semi-detached houses, 80 terraced houses and 20 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£400K
median sale · 103 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£318K–£488K
Last 12 months
£395K39 sold
Semi-detached houses£265K
median sale · 113 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£297K
Last 12 months
£277K32 sold
Terraced houses£205K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£240K
Last 12 months
£205K23 sold
Flats and maisonettes£136K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£165K
Last 12 months
£85K7 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes6%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Anstey’s homes sold for between £216K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £170K and one in ten over £450K. 42% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £264,500, sits in the £250–300K band
316 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £46,250 in 1995 to £273,000 in the last 12 months (£227,950 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
101 sales in the last 12 months, against 198 in 2006, the busiest year, and 83 in 2010. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 16%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 26% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Anstey costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Anstey, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£71K
£90K
£200K
£218K
£315K
£355K
£395K
Semi-detached houses
£46K
£60K
£143K
£136K
£160K
£215K
£277K
Terraced houses
£39K
£50K
£115K
£115K
£142K
£173K
£205K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
£128K
£129K
£126K
£121K
£85K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 38% in 2018
623 new homes have been sold in Anstey since 1995; the share peaked at 38% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
9% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.4% sold leasehold in Anstey. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Bradgate Road is Anstey’s busiest street, with 34 sales in three years
27 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 6 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Bradgate Road
LE7
34
£250,000
Mixed
2
Cropston Road
LE7
21
£345,000
Mixed
3
Forest Gate
LE7
18
£221,250
Mostly terraced houses
4
Link Road
LE7
14
£260,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Pollards Road
LE7
10
£322,500
Mixed
6
Albion Street
LE7
10
£241,225
Mixed
7
Hollow Road
LE7
8
£279,125
Mixed
8
Woodgon Road
LE7
8
£205,000
Mixed
9
Ashfield Drive
LE7
7
£270,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
George Street
LE7
7
£210,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Edward Street
LE7
7
£204,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Latimer Street
LE7
7
£180,000
Mixed
13
Broughton Close
LE7
7
£167,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Princes Close
LE7
6
£277,975
Mostly detached houses
15
Charles Drive
LE7
6
£274,975
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Long Close: £487,500
Anstey median£265K
Long Close£488K
Cropston Road£345K
Rowan Drive£330K
Pollards Road£323K
Woolden Way£300K
Cheapest streets
Ned Ludd Close: £150,000
Anstey median£265K
Ned Ludd Close£150K
Broughton Close£167K
Latimer Street£180K
Highfield Street£195K
Edward Street£204K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.3 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Leicestershire
Anstey is the 30th most expensive of 50 towns in Leicestershire
Anstey is in the middle of Leicestershire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Anstey
What is the average house price in Anstey?
The median home in Anstey sold for £264,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 316 standard sales (£273,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £400,000, semi-detached houses £265,000, terraced houses £205,000 and flats and maisonettes £135,500.
Are house prices going up in Anstey?
The median was £265,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£253,750), and £273,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Anstey each year?
101 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 135 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Anstey?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Long Close (LE7, £487,500), Cropston Road (LE7, £345,000) and Rowan Drive (LE7, £330,000).
Is Anstey expensive for Leicestershire?
Anstey is the 30th most expensive of 50 towns of 2,500 or more in Leicestershire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.