That is the middle of 615 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 5.2 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 Mountsorrel’s sales are detached houses
615 homes sold in three years: 228 detached houses, 204 semi-detached houses, 145 terraced houses and 38 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£414K
median sale · 228 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£479K
Last 12 months
£423K71 sold
New build
£455K
Semi-detached houses£260K
median sale · 204 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£233K–£290K
Last 12 months
£260K81 sold
Terraced houses£235K
median sale · 145 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£208K–£265K
Last 12 months
£233K53 sold
Flats and maisonettes£143K
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£115K–£180K
Last 12 months
£140K15 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses33%
Terraced houses24%
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 Mountsorrel’s homes sold for between £232K and £380K
One sale in ten was under £180K and one in ten over £485K. 35% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £277,500, sits in the £250–300K band
615 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.2 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £52,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in the last 12 months (£250,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
220 sales in the last 12 months, against 371 in 2006, the busiest year, and 151 in 2008. Sales fell by 34% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 28% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Mountsorrel costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Mountsorrel, 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
£87K
£111K
£233K
£245K
£259K
£350K
£423K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£63K
£140K
£144K
£190K
£230K
£260K
Terraced houses
£42K
£55K
£125K
£125K
£153K
£200K
£233K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£29K
£123K
£194K
£117K
£119K
£140K
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: 1% of sales in the last 12 months, after 45% in 2017
1,711 new homes have been sold in Mountsorrel since 1995; the share peaked at 45% in 2017.
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 £399,972
against £277,000 for a home sold on, 44% 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.
7% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Mountsorrel. 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
Leicester Road is Mountsorrel’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
47 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 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
Leicester Road
LE12
19
£225,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Loughborough Road (LE12)
LE12
19
£223,750
Mostly terraced houses
3
Linkfield Road
LE12
15
£240,000
Mixed
4
Kingfisher Road
LE12
11
£270,000
Mixed
5
Fowke Street
LE7
11
£250,000
Mostly flats
6
Rothley Road
LE12
11
£250,000
Mixed
7
Marigold Lane
LE12
11
£225,000
Mixed
8
Brookfield Road
LE7
9
£437,500
Mostly detached houses
9
Mountsorrel Lane
LE7
9
£405,000
Mixed
10
Barwell Drive
LE7
9
£370,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Sheppard Way
LE7
9
£370,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Cross Lane
LE12
9
£287,500
Mixed
13
Castle Road
LE12
9
£275,000
Mixed
14
Dunster Road
LE12
9
£275,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Cloud Lea
LE12
9
£251,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Garland: £560,000
Mountsorrel median£278K
Garland£560K
Grangefields Drive£545K
The Homestead£470K
Brookfield Road£438K
Loughborough Road (LE7)£406K
Cheapest streets
Bond Lane: £116,500
Mountsorrel median£278K
Bond Lane£117K
Barons Way£128K
Maitland Avenue£168K
The Romans£198K
Boundary Road£215K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.8 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
Mountsorrel is the 23rd most expensive of 50 towns in Leicestershire
Mountsorrel 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 Mountsorrel
What is the average house price in Mountsorrel?
The median home in Mountsorrel sold for £277,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 615 standard sales (£270,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £413,500, semi-detached houses £260,000, terraced houses £235,000 and flats and maisonettes £142,500.
Are house prices going up in Mountsorrel?
The median was £286,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£280,000), and £270,000 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 Mountsorrel each year?
220 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 260 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Mountsorrel?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Garland (LE7, £560,000), Grangefields Drive (LE7, £545,000) and The Homestead (LE12, £470,000).
How much does a new build cost in Mountsorrel?
New homes sold for a median £399,972 over three years, against £277,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1% of sales.
Is Mountsorrel expensive for Leicestershire?
Mountsorrel is the 23rd 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.