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Recreation Road, LU5

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

Median sold price
£132,250
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£3,136
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
46
Distinct homes
25
Price range
£62,500 – £345,000
Sales recorded
2000 → 2025
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Recreation Road is mostly terraced houses. Homes here typically change hands around £132,250 — roughly 57% below the LU5 norm. On floor area that works out near £3,136 per square metre, below the district's £3,712. The street has been outpacing the LU5 trend. HM Land Registry records 46 sales across 25 homes since 2000 — homes here come up rarely.

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Recreation Road prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 46 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianLU5 district trend
£0£100k£200k£300k£400k2000200520102015202020252000: £66,500 median · 1 sale2001: £64,500 median · 3 sales2002: £85,000 median · 3 sales2003: £109,250 median · 2 sales2004: £116,000 median · 3 sales2005: £119,998 median · 2 sales2006: £143,500 median · 2 sales2008: £134,000 median · 1 sale2009: £130,500 median · 1 sale2011: £110,500 median · 2 sales2012: £123,498 median · 4 sales2014: £124,995 median · 1 sale2015: £168,498 median · 4 sales2016: £195,000 median · 5 sales2017: £191,000 median · 1 sale2019: £218,500 median · 4 sales2020: £214,000 median · 1 sale2021: £211,000 median · 1 sale2023: £270,000 median · 1 sale2024: £265,000 median · 1 sale2025: £296,500 median · 3 sales

Median sold price by year vs the LU5 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Recreation Road compares

Recreation Road against the LU5 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Skye Gardens£470k · 58
Box Crescent£380k · 62
Jeans Way£325k · 57
Fauna Field£285k · 68
Luton Road£266k · 121
Cemetery Road£261k · 80
Tilling Green£217k · 111
Dukeminster Road£213k · 63
Bagshawe Way£210k · 91
Recreation Road£132k · 46*

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
£132,250
median · all recorded sales
LU5 district
£310,000
median · last 8 years · street -57%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Recreation Road's £132,250 median sits about 57% below LU5's £310,000; on floor space it runs £3,136/m² against the district's £3,712/m² (-16%).

Street and LU5 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 Recreation Road.

Terraced
£134,000
39 sales
Semi-detached
£126,000
7 sales

Every recorded sale on Recreation Road

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

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
28 Jul 20256 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£296,500
24 Jul 202522 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£345,000
13 Mar 20257 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£270,000
1 Mar 202456 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£265,000
7 Sept 20235 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£270,000
30 Mar 202135 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£211,000
27 Aug 20205 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£214,000
10 Dec 201931 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£180,000
14 Oct 201939 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£217,000
14 Feb 201916 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£225,000
4 Jan 201912 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£220,000
22 May 201725 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£191,000
18 Nov 201657 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£200,000
7 Sept 201648 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£210,000
24 Mar 201610 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£185,000
27 Jan 201617 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£180,000
18 Jan 20164 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£195,000
2 Oct 201549 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£167,000
10 Apr 20155 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£160,000
13 Feb 201536 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£190,000
16 Jan 20158 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£169,995
14 Feb 201420 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£124,995
30 Nov 201246 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£125,000
7 Sept 20125 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£124,995
2 Jul 201210 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£122,000
22 Jun 20125 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£105,000
28 Jul 201116 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£95,000
8 Jul 201146 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£126,000
21 Dec 20094 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£130,500
25 Feb 200849 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£134,000
2 Oct 20064 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£124,999
29 Sept 200636 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£162,000
15 Dec 200517 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£120,000
14 Jun 200522 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£119,995
19 Apr 200432 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£116,000
16 Feb 20045 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£110,000
12 Feb 200455 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£117,000
12 Sept 200317 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£108,500
28 Feb 200355 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£110,000
12 Dec 200236 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£126,000
19 Jul 200214 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£85,000
30 Jan 200255 · LU5 5JWSemi-detached—£80,000
5 Dec 200110 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£79,995
2 Aug 200158 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£62,500
14 Jun 200149 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£64,500
30 Oct 200046 · LU5 5JWTerraced—£66,500
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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.