LU2 8SJ
Last sold £38,500 in February 1998
38, Laxton Close, Luton
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Bedrooms
- 1 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 431 sq ft / 40 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
- Elevation
- About 152m — higher than about 70% of homes in Luton
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Price history in context
- Feb 1998 — £38,500
What this home might be worth today
£170,000
Estimate range £162,000–£179,000
+342.3% since February 1998 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 169 nearby sales within a year · 1-bed (est.) semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Queen Elizabeth School 1.1km
- Wigmore Primary 530m
- Central Terminal station 1.1km
- Stubbocks Wood 1.9km
- The coast (coastline) 44.8km
- Lea 2.7km
- Pond 354m
- River Ivel Navigation 17.2km
- River Lea 2.8km
- Wigmore Valley Park 25m
- Play Area 104m
- Quick Stop 1.0km
- Laxton Close (Opp) 48m
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 Airport Parkway, 2.6km away
- 23 min London
- 75 min Cambridge
- 100 min Nottingham
- 103 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
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,580 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 215 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 37, Laxton Close, Luton £175,000 · 2021
- 31, Laxton Close, Luton £99,995 · 2004
- 34, Laxton Close, Luton £124,995 · 2007
- 33, Laxton Close, Luton £175,000 · 2021
- 39, Laxton Close, Luton £112,000 · 2006
- 36, Laxton Close, Luton £180,000 · 2015
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Certificate of lawflness of proposed use - Conversion of garage into habitable space and… Jan 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of two storey rear extension, infill existing porch, partial garage conversion,… Jan 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of single storey side/rear extension to form garage. Dec 2025 source
- Permitted Erection of single storey front and side extensions. Jan 2026 source
- Undecided Erection of a single storey and first floor side, single storey rear extensions, garage… Jun 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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