LU1 1QR
Last sold £125,000 in October 2008
16, Flat 1, Downs Road, Luton
- Property type
- Flat
- Tenure
- Leasehold
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Price history in context
- Oct 2008 — £125,000
What this home might be worth today
£218,000
Estimate range £207,000–£229,000
+74.2% since October 2008 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 200 nearby sales within a year · flat within 1 km
The life around it
- Hillborough Junior School 685m
- Rothesay Nursery School 311m
- Luton station 1.0km
- Badgerdell Wood 1.9km
- The coast (coastline) 44.5km
- Wardown Lake 1.2km
- Farley Fish Pond 1.4km
- Canal 15.2km
- River Lea 801m
- Brantwood Park 69m
- Play Area 121m
- Londis 282m
- Brantwood Road (Opp) 54m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Luton, 1.0km away
- 26 min London
- 78 min Cambridge
- 97 min Nottingham
- 104 min Oxford
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Planning
- In the Rothesay Conservation Area 4 — external changes usually need consent.
From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.
Crime
Among the highest for England & Wales — 330 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 4, Flat 10, Downs Road, Luton £76,000 · 2026
- 4, Flat 7, Downs Road, Luton £100,000 · 2025
- 14a, Downs Road, Luton £46,000 · 1998
- 22, Downs Road, Luton £139,995 · 1999
- 38, Downs Road, Luton £144,000 · 2003
- 2, Flat A, Downs Road, Luton £81,500 · 2003
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Erection of two-storey side and single-storey side extensions Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use - Continued use of property as a 7-person HMO,… May 2026 source
- Undecided Works to trees in Conservation Area - Fell to ground level (G1) two lime trees Apr 2026 source
- Undecided Erection of a single storey side/rear and first floor rear extensions and alterations to… Mar 2026 source
- Undecided Telecommunications Installation: Removal of 3 existing antennas and 9 RRUs and… Jun 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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