That is the middle of 123 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 5.4 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.
123 homes sold in three years: 36 detached houses, 67 semi-detached houses, 19 terraced houses and 1 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£422K
median sale · 36 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£330K–£620K
Last 12 months
£403K14 sold
Semi-detached houses£265K
median sale · 67 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£292K
Last 12 months
£275K18 sold
Terraced houses£235K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£263K
Last 12 months
£231K8 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 54% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses54%
Terraced houses15%
Flats and maisonettes1%
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 Cosby’s homes sold for between £242K and £340K
One sale in ten was under £220K and one in ten over £538K. 28% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £275,000, sits in the £250–300K band
123 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £51,950 in 1995 to £282,500 in the last 12 months (£220,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
40 sales in the last 12 months, against 82 in 2002, the busiest year, and 25 in 2008. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Cosby costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Cosby, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£84K
£96K
£171K
£179K
£300K
£358K
£403K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£72K
£132K
£149K
£178K
£233K
£275K
Terraced houses
£37K
£60K
£136K
—
£151K
—
£231K
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
100 new homes have been sold in Cosby since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Cosby. 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
Croft Road is Cosby’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Croft Road
LE9
13
£282,500
Mixed
2
Main Street
LE9
9
£253,000
Mixed
3
Chiltern Avenue
LE9
7
£335,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Brooklands Road
LE9
7
£270,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Hill View Drive
LE9
6
£261,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Tudor Drive
LE9
5
£272,000
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
Cosby is the 26th most expensive of 50 towns in Leicestershire
Cosby 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 Cosby
What is the average house price in Cosby?
The median home in Cosby sold for £275,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 123 standard sales (£282,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £421,500, semi-detached houses £265,000 and terraced houses £235,000.
Are house prices going up in Cosby?
The median was £270,000 in 2025, down 4% on 2024 (£282,500), and £282,500 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 Cosby each year?
40 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 47 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Cosby expensive for Leicestershire?
Cosby is the 24th 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.
Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0