Most Expensive Streets in Leicester: New Top 10

Warren Hill in Newtown Linford is the most expensive street in Leicester on the sold-price record since 2020, averaging £2,680,833 across six standard residential sales lodged with HM Land Registry. The record for one individual sale is a different question with, this time, the same answer: the biggest transaction in the entire Leicester dataset, £6,750,000 for a detached freehold house, also completed on Warren Hill. One village street holds both titles at once.

The rest of the list rarely touches the city itself. Villages hold seven of the ten places: Newtown Linford to the north-west, Kirby Muxloe to the west with two entries, Burton Overy to the south-east with two more, then Rearsby and Rothley. The closest the list gets to the city is a trio of streets in LE2 on its south-eastern edge, two of them with Knighton in the name, and the register states no village or locality for any of the three.

Article published: August 2026.

We analysed 41,771 standard residential sales recorded with a street name in the latest HM Land Registry price paid data for the Leicester postal town, from January 2020 to June 2026. Those sales group into 5,975 named streets, and 5,014 of them recorded the two or more qualifying sales a street needs to rank, so a lone bumper sale cannot claim first place by itself. Every average below carries its sale count next to it, because an average built on two transactions and an average built on eight are not the same kind of evidence, and the count is how you tell them apart. If what you actually want is rents, yields and realistic entry prices, our Leicester buy-to-let guide covers those postcode by postcode.

Top 10 Most Expensive Streets in Leicester

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research. Standard residential sales only (Category A): detached, semi-detached and terraced houses plus flats and maisonettes, bought freehold or leasehold.

Note: Only streets with two or more standard residential sales in this period are included in this table.

Leicester's premium is scattered rather than stacked in one suburb. Five different postcode districts appear in ten rows, and no single district manages more than three entries. LE2, the district running south-east from the centre into Oadby, is the closest thing to a cluster with Southmeads Road, Knighton Rise and Knighton Grange Road. Kirby Muxloe and Burton Overy each place a pair of streets, and Newtown Linford, Rearsby and Rothley supply one apiece. The cut line falls at £1,111,667, and none of the 5,004 eligible streets outside this table finished above it. Street by street, some of these averages rest on far deeper samples than others; the profiles that follow sort one from the other.

Warren Hill, Newtown Linford

Six sales, and not one of them below £1.3 million. Warren Hill's register entries run £1,450,000 in November 2020, £1,800,000 in January 2021, £1,685,000 in October 2021, then the £6,750,000 detached freehold sale of October 2023, followed by £1,300,000 in May 2024 and £3,100,000 in January 2025. A record sale that size will always raise the question of whether it carries the whole average, so take it out: the remaining five sales still average £1,867,000, which beats every other ranked street's average. The £2,680,833 figure is nearly double second place with the record included, and comfortably clear of it without. On this evidence the street earns first place both ways: highest average with the record sale counted, and highest average with it set aside.

Stamford Road and Roundhill: the Kirby Muxloe pair

Kirby Muxloe, the village on Leicester's western edge, is the only place other than Burton Overy to land two ranked streets. Stamford Road is the busier of its pair, with seven sales between £825,000 and its £2,375,000 top in November 2023, backed by £2,075,000 in July 2024. The register also shows two separate sales completing on Stamford Road on the same day, 31st October 2025, one at £825,000 and one at £1,100,000, and both count in these figures exactly as listed. Roundhill is the opposite kind of entry. Its two qualifying sales completed seven weeks apart in mid-2024, at £1,150,000 and £1,275,000, only £125,000 between them, so the £1,212,500 average describes both transactions closely rather than splitting a wide gap.

Southmeads Road, Knighton Rise and Knighton Grange Road: the LE2 trio

The three LE2 entries share a postcode district and a blank in the register: HM Land Registry states no locality for any of them, so they appear here under street name alone, though two of the three carry Knighton in the name. The register's council-district column sharpens the picture: Southmeads Road and Knighton Rise record every sale under Oadby and Wigston, and Knighton Grange Road splits its three, two under the City of Leicester and one under Oadby and Wigston, so even the most urban corner of this table straddles the city boundary rather than sitting inside it. Southmeads Road is third on the strength of a very recent run. After a single £860,000 sale in January 2020, the street logged nothing for five years, then sold twice in 2025, at £1,657,500 in May and £1,425,000 in October. Knighton Rise is steadier: four sales from 2021 to 2025, every one between £1,060,000 and £1,312,500. Knighton Grange Road closes the table with three sales that straddle a wide middle, £1,375,000 in March 2021, £710,000 in September 2022, and £1,250,000 in November 2024.

Carlton Lane and Rectory End: the Burton Overy pair

Burton Overy, a small village south-east of the city, puts two of its lanes in the top ten. Carlton Lane qualifies on the bare minimum, two sales, and both completed within two months of each other in the autumn of 2024: £1,400,000 in August, £1,200,000 in October. Rectory End spreads its three sales across more than five years, £1,050,000 in December 2020, £1,376,500 in March 2022, then £1,250,000 in February 2026, the most recent transaction on any street in this ranking. Neither lane recorded a single sale below £1 million in the whole window, which only three other ranked streets can match.

Church Leys and The Ridings: the eight-sale streets

The two deepest samples in the table tell very different stories. Church Leys in Rearsby recorded eight sales, five of them in 2023 alone, spanning £600,000 to the £2,400,000 that topped the street in March 2024. That is a four-fold gap between its cheapest and dearest, so its £1,279,875 average summarises a genuinely mixed lane rather than a uniform one. The Ridings in Rothley also counts eight sales, and six of them fell below £1 million. Two large transactions, £1,700,000 in October 2021 and £2,300,000 in October 2024, pull the street's average to £1,138,125, a figure that sits above six of the eight sales behind it.

Leicester's Highest Individual Property Sales

Published August 2026

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research.

No standard residential sale in the Leicester postal town beat £6,750,000 in this window. That price, paid for a detached freehold house on Warren Hill in October 2023, is so far ahead that even the second-biggest sale on Warren Hill itself, £3,100,000 in January 2025, comes in at less than half of it. The best sale on any other ranked street, Church Leys' £2,400,000 of March 2024, sits £4,350,000 behind the record. Among the 961 streets excluded for recording only one qualifying sale, the nearest challenger was Holmewood Drive, also in Kirby Muxloe, where a single £3,000,000 sale completed in February 2025. The record is more than double any other individual sale mentioned anywhere on this page.

Note: This table shows each ranked street's single biggest standard residential (Category A) sale in the window, ordered by price.

Most of these street records are fresh. Six of the ten were set in 2024 or 2025: Church Leys, The Ridings, Carlton Lane and Roundhill all peaked in 2024, then Knighton Rise and Southmeads Road pushed theirs higher in the spring of 2025. Only Knighton Grange Road and Rectory End rely on records older than 2023, and just £1,500 separates their two figures, £1,376,500 against £1,375,000, set almost exactly a year apart. Five of these ten peaks arrived after July 2024, so even a recently compiled list ages fast.

Leicester's Record Streets: Total Value of Property Sales

Published August 2026

Date range: 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2026. Based on the latest Land Registry price paid data at the time of research.

Totting up every sale on a street answers a question neither an average nor a record can: where the money actually moved. Ranked that way, this list shuffles considerably.

Note: Totals sum every qualifying standard residential (Category A) sale recorded on each ranked street in the period. The highest street total in the whole extract belongs to an unranked street, Swithland Lane in Rothley.

Across six and a half years, buyers put £65,855,500 into 46 sales on these ten streets, with Warren Hill's six transactions alone worth £16 million of it. Then there is the street none of them can touch for sheer volume of money. Swithland Lane in Rothley recorded 47 sales worth £43,700,200, which means one lane in one village took more money than the top three rows of this table combined, and recorded more qualifying sales than all ten ranked streets put together. Its average of roughly £930,000 falls under the £1,111,667 cut line, which keeps the biggest-money street in the entire Leicester dataset out of the ranked table altogether. Rothley ends up on both sides of that split: The Ridings for its average, Swithland Lane for its total.

The Top 10 Mapped

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All ten ranked streets are pinned below, numbered by their position in the table. Each marker is placed at the full postcode where the largest share of that street's qualifying sales completed, with ties broken by the most recent sale, and the coordinates are the official ONS references for that postcode. In other words, the pins follow the transactions in the tables rather than anyone's estimate of where a street's grandest house sits. What the map shows is a loose ring: Warren Hill to the north-west near Bradgate Park, the Kirby Muxloe pair due west, Rothley to the north with Rearsby beyond it to the north-east, Burton Overy's two lanes to the south-east, and the LE2 trio on the city's south-eastern edge.

Where Do Leicester's Wealthy Actually Live?

A sold-price register can only answer with sold prices, and its answer for Leicester is villages first, city second. Measured by street averages, the most expensive area to live in Leicester is the arc of villages around it: Newtown Linford in LE6, Kirby Muxloe in LE9, Burton Overy in LE8, Rearsby and Rothley in LE7. Ask where the posh areas sit closer to the centre and the register points to LE2, where Southmeads Road, Knighton Rise and Knighton Grange Road all cleared a £1.1 million average, though its district column books most of those sales to Oadby and Wigston rather than the city. Book the table to the City of Leicester's own district instead and no street clears £1 million: the best city-booked average with two or more qualifying sales in the window is £984,000, well under the table's cut line. Even Stoneygate cannot close that gap: the register carries it as a locality, and its best-averaging street on two or more qualifying sales in the window, Elmsleigh Avenue, comes in at £581,666, roughly half the cut line. On this measure the richest area in Leicester is not one postcode at all but that village ring, and no district anywhere in the extract put more than three streets in the top ten. As for a millionaires' row, the register offers an unusually clean candidate: every one of Warren Hill's six sales cleared seven figures, and the street holds the record transaction on top.

The geography behind the leader is not hard to read. Warren Hill sits in Newtown Linford, the village at the gates of Bradgate Park, 830 acres of protected parkland north of the city that hold Leicestershire's largest wild red and fallow deer herds. Kirby Muxloe, home to two ranked streets and the £3,000,000 one-sale near miss on Holmewood Drive, has its own landmark in Kirby Muxloe Castle, the moated brick manor house begun for William, Lord Hastings in 1480 and never finished after his execution. Settings like these are what the top of Leicester's sold-price table looks like: parkland, villages, and streets that recorded only a handful of sales in six and a half years.

One caution belongs here. Remember what this register is: a log of completed purchases and nothing more. It cannot say who lives on a street or what they are worth, and a street of substantial houses that rarely sells barely appears in it at all. A low count records how few qualifying sales the register logged in this window, never how grand a street is, and that is why every average on this page carries its sale count.

This article measures the top of the market and nothing else, and our Leicester buy-to-let guide works through rents, yields and entry prices district by district. For most buyers the ceiling documented here is simply the top of the scale; our investment property page covers the other end of it.

How to Find the Most Expensive Streets in Leicester

Every price and sale count on this page comes from a public dataset you can query yourself:

1. Open the HM Land Registry price paid data search.
2. Enter Leicester as the town or city. That search runs on the postal town, which sweeps in villages such as Newtown Linford, Kirby Muxloe, Burton Overy and Rothley, far beyond the city council's boundary.
3. Select the four residential property types: detached, semi-detached, terraced and flat/maisonette. The "other" category mixes in commercial premises, so leave it unticked.
4. Choose your dates. This analysis ran 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2026.
5. Download the results, group the sales by street, then rank streets on their average sold price with a minimum of two sales, so no street ranks on a single transaction.

Note: One check earns its keep before any averaging: duplicated rows. The register occasionally records a transaction twice, and a street ranked on two sales has no slack for that error. Nothing of the kind turned up in this Leicester download, but a few minutes here protects every figure that follows.

Timing changes the answer, which is why older lists disagree with this one. Three of these ten streets could not have ranked at all before 19th July 2024, the day Roundhill's first qualifying sale completed: Carlton Lane's two sales arrived later in 2024, and Southmeads Road held only one sale until May 2025. Rectory End's latest sale arrived in February 2026. Ask the register the same question on a different date and it hands you a different table; this one speaks for the window ending June 2026.

Sold-price data earns its keep at the other end of the market too. A claimed discount means little until it is set against what comparable homes actually sold for, which is the entire logic of below market value properties. And our buy to let property for sale page shows what is on the market at investor price points right now.

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