That is the middle of 300 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 6.4 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.
Half of Thurmaston’s sales are semi-detached houses
300 homes sold in three years: 62 detached houses, 151 semi-detached houses, 76 terraced houses and 11 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£320K
median sale · 62 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£268K–£390K
Last 12 months
£316K18 sold
Semi-detached houses£262K
median sale · 151 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£290K
Last 12 months
£272K48 sold
Terraced houses£220K
median sale · 76 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£195K–£267K
Last 12 months
£217K21 sold
Flats and maisonettes£145K
median sale · 11 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£170K
Last 12 months
£142K6 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 50% of sales
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses50%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes4%
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 Thurmaston’s homes sold for between £225K and £300K
One sale in ten was under £187K and one in ten over £360K. 40% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £260,000, sits in the £250–300K band
300 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £41,500 in 1995 to £265,000 in the last 12 months (£187,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
93 sales in the last 12 months, against 199 in 2002, the busiest year, and 70 in 2012. Sales fell by 47% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 33% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Thurmaston costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Thurmaston, 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
£58K
£80K
£185K
£161K
£220K
£253K
£316K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£58K
£131K
£126K
£165K
£209K
£272K
Terraced houses
£37K
£45K
£106K
£107K
£121K
£165K
£217K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
—
£125K
£88K
£132K
£142K
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
197 new homes have been sold in Thurmaston since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Thurmaston. 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
Melton Road is Thurmaston’s busiest street, with 17 sales in three years
25 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 5 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
Melton Road
LE4
17
£262,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Colby Drive
LE4
14
£417,500
Mostly detached houses
3
Dovedale Road
LE4
12
£283,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Church Hill Road
LE4
10
£256,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Alexandra Street
LE4
10
£253,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Highway Road
LE4
9
£335,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Humberstone Lane
LE4
9
£301,500
Mostly terraced houses
8
Parkdale Road
LE4
8
£249,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Ferndale Road
LE4
7
£300,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Methuen Avenue
LE4
7
£245,000
Mixed
11
Brackenfield Way
LE4
7
£217,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Winster Drive
LE4
7
£210,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Beacon Avenue
LE4
6
£269,000
Mixed
14
Charnwood Avenue
LE4
6
£264,500
Mostly terraced houses
15
Thorpe Field Drive
LE4
6
£262,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Colby Drive: £417,500
Thurmaston median£260K
Colby Drive£418K
Highway Road£335K
Ivydale Road£315K
Humberstone Lane£302K
Ferndale Road£300K
Cheapest streets
Eastfield Road: £139,950
Thurmaston median£260K
Eastfield Road£140K
Havelock Gardens£158K
Clayton Drive£191K
Smith Avenue£199K
Winster Drive£210K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 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
Thurmaston is the 32nd most expensive of 50 towns in Leicestershire
Thurmaston 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 Thurmaston
What is the average house price in Thurmaston?
The median home in Thurmaston sold for £260,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 300 standard sales (£265,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £320,000, semi-detached houses £262,000, terraced houses £220,000 and flats and maisonettes £145,000.
Are house prices going up in Thurmaston?
The median was £257,475 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£265,000), and £265,000 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 Thurmaston each year?
93 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 113 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Thurmaston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Colby Drive (LE4, £417,500), Highway Road (LE4, £335,000) and Ivydale Road (LE4, £315,000).
Is Thurmaston expensive for Leicestershire?
Thurmaston is the 31st 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.