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Empress Road, LU3

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£161,500
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£3,587
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
30
Distinct homes
26
Price range
£115,000£209,995
Sales recorded
2006 → 2025
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Empress Road is a street almost entirely of flats. Homes here typically change hands around £161,500 — roughly 44% below the LU3 norm. Per square metre of floor space it comes to about £3,587, in line with the district's £3,571. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; LU3 prices as a whole have been rising. HM Land Registry records 30 sales across 26 homes since 2006 — homes here come up rarely.

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Empress Road prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 30 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianLU3 district trend
£100k£200k£300k£400k20102015202020252006: £149,000 median · 1 sale2008: £128,000 median · 12 sales2017: £203,498 median · 4 sales2018: £177,748 median · 8 sales2019: £160,000 median · 1 sale2021: £165,000 median · 1 sale2022: £150,000 median · 1 sale2024: £165,000 median · 1 sale2025: £195,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the LU3 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Empress Road compares

Empress Road against the LU3 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Turnpike Drive£368k · 89
Icknield Way£350k · 42
Kinross Crescent£295k · 55
Grampian Way£291k · 50
Sundon Park Road£280k · 55
New Bedford Road£269k · 48
Third Avenue£233k · 44
Repton Close£220k · 46
Lucas Gardens£190k · 57
Empress Road£162k · 30*

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£161,500
median · all recorded sales
LU3 district
£290,000
median · last 8 years · street -44%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Empress Road's £161,500 median sits about 44% below LU3's £290,000; on floor space it runs £3,587/m² against the district's £3,571/m².

Street and LU3 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Prices by property type

Median sold price by property type on Empress Road.

Flat
£161,000
27 sales
Semi-detached
£182,500
3 sales

Every recorded sale on Empress Road

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
26 Feb 20253 · LU3 2REnon-standardSemi-detached£275,000
10 Feb 2025Apartment 10, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlat£195,000
9 Aug 2024Flat 6, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlat£165,000
18 May 2023Flat 6, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REnon-standardFlat£141,000
15 Dec 2022Apartment 5, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REnon-standardFlat£205,000
13 Dec 2022Apartment 2, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlat£150,000
21 Jan 2022Apartment 7, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REnon-standardFlat£163,000
23 Apr 2021Apartment 8, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlat£165,000
8 Mar 2019Apartment 3, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£160,000
5 Dec 201814, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2RESemi-detached£195,000
5 Nov 2018Apartment 1, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£162,000
5 Oct 201813, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlat£192,000
21 Sept 2018Apartment 4, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£174,000
14 Sept 2018Apartment 7, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£161,000
6 Jun 2018Apartment 12, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£174,995
27 Apr 2018Apartment 10, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£206,500
7 Feb 2018Apartment 11, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REnon-standardFlatYes£160,000
30 Jan 2018Apartment 8, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£180,500
17 Nov 2017Apartment 2, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£179,995
17 Nov 2017Apartment 9, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£209,995
31 Jul 2017Apartment 5, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£199,000
31 Jul 2017Apartment 6, Empire Court, 5 · LU3 2REFlatYes£207,995
22 May 20171a · LU3 2REnon-standardOther£43,000
12 Dec 2008Flat 2, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£123,000
6 Oct 2008Flat 11, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£117,000
28 Aug 2008Flat 8, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£115,000
11 Jul 2008Flat 4, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£115,000
1 Jul 200816 · LU3 2RESemi-detached£182,500
22 May 2008Flat 6, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£125,000
1 May 2008Flat 10, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£133,000
17 Apr 2008Flat 3, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£131,000
7 Apr 2008Flat 5, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£133,500
4 Apr 2008Flat 1, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£125,000
28 Mar 2008Flat 9, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£137,000
18 Mar 2008Flat 7, Empress Court, 1a · LU3 2REFlatYes£133,500
2 Jun 200614 · LU3 2RESemi-detached£149,000

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.