Living in Leicester, Leicestershire
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Free Leicester Area Report
Sold prices, price trends, local rents and house prices against earnings for Leicester - compiled from official sources into one report. Enter your email and we will send you your copy.
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Homes in Leicester cost 7.18 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- Leicester a year earlier: 7.42 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in Leicester over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in Leicester, wherever they live. That is what "workplace-based" means - it is about jobs in the area, not the earnings of people who live there. Earnings come from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (April 2025). A higher ratio means homes are less affordable for people working locally. The latest year uses provisional earnings, which ONS revises the following year. This is a council-area figure, not a valuation of any home.
Source: Office for National Statistics, House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.
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Local administration around Leicester
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Recent sold prices near Leicester (postcode sector LE1 4)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 158, BURGESS HOUSE, 42, SANVEY GATE | £140,000 | Flat | Aug 2026 |
| FLAT 92, BURGESS HOUSE, 42, SANVEY GATE | £123,000 | Flat | Aug 2026 |
| FLAT 74, BURGESS HOUSE, 42, SANVEY GATE | £125,000 | Flat | Jul 2026 |
| FLAT 26, THE ANNEXE, 3, JUNIOR STREET | £106,000 | Flat | Jun 2026 |
| FLAT 13, SANVEY MILL, 1, JUNIOR STREET | £138,500 | Flat | Apr 2026 |
| APARTMENT 1, THE QUAD, 55, HIGHCROSS STREET | £140,000 | Flat | Sep 2025 |
| APARTMENT 5, ARCUS APARTMENTS, 30, EAST BOND STREET | £79,051 | Flat | Sep 2025 |
| APARTMENT 7, THE BAR, 8, SHIRES LANE | £105,000 | Flat | Jul 2025 |
| APARTMENT 20, THE CIRCUS, 12, HIGHCROSS LANE | £105,000 | Flat | May 2025 |
| APARTMENT 10, THE CIRCUS, 12, HIGHCROSS LANE | £100,000 | Flat | Jan 2025 |
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