LU5 — Dunstable
LU5 is Dunstable's patch in Central Bedfordshire — this page and its game board are built from 22,995 sales over 32 years of recorded sales in 8 areas.
From £49,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026: the LU5 median multiplied 6.6× across the dataset. The best vintage to have bought was around 2002, when the local median jumped +27.1% in a single year. Worst year on the board: 2009, at -11.7%. The simulation does not soften it.
Median sold price in LU5
| Year | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | £49,000 | 531 |
| 2000 | £77,000 | 807 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | 772 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | 370 |
| 2015 | £187,000 | 694 |
| 2020 | £271,950 | 624 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | 732 |
| 2026 | £325,000 | 111 |
The areas on the board
These are the 8 areas on the board, ranked by how much of the local market they carry:
- Houghton Regis (48% of local sales) — busiest streets: Cemetery Road, Conway Close, Tennyson Avenue
- Dunstable (LU5 4) (32% of local sales) — busiest streets: Luton Road, The Mall, Jeans Way
- Toddington (12% of local sales) — busiest streets: Bryant Way, Dunstable Road, Randall Drive
- Harlington (5% of local sales) — busiest streets: Westoning Road, Sundon Road, Park Leys
- Dunstable (LU5 5) (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Northfields, Houghton Road, Capron Road
- Bidwell (0% of local sales) — busiest streets: Plaiters Way
- Townsend Industrial Estate (0% of local sales) — busiest streets: Blackburn Road
- Chalgrave (0% of local sales)
The data is real and so are the down years. Draft six properties on the LU5 board.
Local business? Put your name on the LU5 board — one sponsor per postcode.
Prices are medians of real Land Registry sales. Street lists show street names only — never individual addresses. New to the game? Start with how to play.