That is the middle of 108 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 5.8 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.
42% of Barlestone’s sales are semi-detached houses
108 homes sold in three years: 40 detached houses, 45 semi-detached houses and 23 terraced houses.
Detached houses£356K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£475K
Last 12 months
£329K10 sold
New build
£495K
Semi-detached houses£225K
median sale · 45 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£194K–£260K
Last 12 months
£231K14 sold
Terraced houses£182K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£168K–£205K
Last 12 months
£181K8 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 42% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses42%
Terraced houses21%
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 Barlestone’s homes sold for between £194K and £330K
One sale in ten was under £170K and one in ten over £445K. 52% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £246,000, sits in the £200–250K band
108 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.8 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £41,000 in 1995 to £236,000 in the last 12 months (£177,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
32 sales in the last 12 months, against 81 in 2005, the busiest year, and 17 in 2010. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Barlestone costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Barlestone, 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
£68K
£100K
£220K
£250K
£210K
£312K
£329K
Semi-detached houses
£41K
£60K
£145K
£160K
£133K
£213K
£231K
Terraced houses
£35K
£46K
£119K
—
£130K
£134K
£181K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
104 new homes have been sold in Barlestone since 1995; the share peaked at 49% in 2005.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £495,000
against £245,000 for a home sold on, 102% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
2% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in Barlestone. 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
Newbold Road is Barlestone’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Newbold Road
CV13
13
£260,000
Mixed
2
Manor Road
CV13
13
£225,000
Mixed
3
Barton Road
CV13
11
£400,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Bosworth Road
CV13
8
£255,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Little Mill Close
CV13
7
£320,000
Mixed
6
Thistle Close
CV13
5
£495,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
7
Gregory Road
CV13
5
£273,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
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
Barlestone is the 40th most expensive of 50 towns in Leicestershire
Barlestone is one of Leicestershire’s cheapest 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 Barlestone
What is the average house price in Barlestone?
The median home in Barlestone sold for £246,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 108 standard sales (£236,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £356,000, semi-detached houses £225,000 and terraced houses £182,250.
Are house prices going up in Barlestone?
The median was £242,000 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£254,500), and £236,000 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 Barlestone each year?
32 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 38 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Barlestone?
New homes sold for a median £495,000 over three years, against £245,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.6% of sales.
Is Barlestone expensive for Leicestershire?
Barlestone is the 40th 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.