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Ennerdale Bridge market report CA23, Cleator
The CA23 (Ennerdale Bridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 876 HM Land Registry entries for CA23 (Cleator), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical CA23 (Cleator) home changed hands for £117,500 in 2026 (median of 12 registered sales, up 35% on five years earlier), with the mean at £130,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 876 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district CA23 covering Cleator, Ennerdale Bridge sits in Cleator. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CA23 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What CA23 homes really sell for
The CA23 median stands at £117,500 for 2026, built from 12 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £130,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CA23
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CA23 sales average about £1,560 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CA23 trades 59% below the country as a whole.
CA23's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £117,500 | £117,500 | 12 |
| 2025 | £137,000 | £140,276 | 22 |
| 2024 | £123,000 | £130,774 | 27 |
| 2023 | £105,000 | £115,369 | 23 |
| 2022 | £95,000 | £111,398 | 30 |
| 2021 | £87,000 | £110,153 | 37 |
| 2020 | £103,000 | £133,645 | 21 |
| 2019 | £116,200 | £152,310 | 28 |
| 2018 | £123,000 | £163,961 | 16 |
| 2017 | £75,000 | £102,292 | 20 |
| 2016 | £121,000 | £169,280 | 23 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 25 |
| 2014 | £99,500 | £141,158 | 21 |
| 2013 | £81,000 | £116,551 | 24 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 21 |
| 2011 | £72,500 | £109,447 | 21 |
| 2010 | £108,000 | £169,372 | 21 |
| 2009 | £81,000 | £130,208 | 15 |
| 2008 | £89,200 | £146,218 | 34 |
| 2007 | £85,500 | £145,032 | 40 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 41 |
| 2005 | £59,000 | £104,996 | 32 |
| 2004 | £53,500 | £97,166 | 38 |
| 2003 | £30,500 | £56,188 | 56 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 45 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 23 |
| 2000 | £34,800 | £68,295 | 30 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 33 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 28 |
| 1997 | £36,200 | £74,239 | 22 |
| 1996 | £27,200 | £57,364 | 26 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 21 |
In cash terms the typical CA23 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £117,500 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 64%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2010; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2010 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CA23 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+75.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−38.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 79% of the typed total.
Median by property type, CA23
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £225,000 (2025) | – | 126 |
| Semi-detached | £136,000 (2022) | – | 34 |
| Terraced | £104,000 | 10 | 610 |
What CA23 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.2% | −16.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.2% | +1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
CA23 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 38 sales a year before the financial crisis and 23 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around CA23
CA23 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £496 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,071, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£666 a month is £7,992 a year, which against the £117,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the CA23 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CA23 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. In its area's price order CA23 comes 27 of 28, towards the cheaper end of the table.
CA23 (Ennerdale Bridge): the questions that come up
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What happens to CA23 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
Moving up a bedroom in CA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CA area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £220,000 | £300,000 (+36%) | £430,000 (+43%) | £523,000 (+22%) |
| Semi-detached | £142,000 | £155,000 (+9%) | £205,000 (+32%) | £265,000 (+29%) | £357,500 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £105,000 | £115,000 (+10%) | £132,500 (+15%) | £184,000 (+39%) | £255,000 (+39%) |
| Flat | £92,000 | £124,950 (+36%) | £165,500 (+32%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CA23 ranks 3 of 28 in the CA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the CA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CA23, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA23 3 | £117,500 | 12 |
How CA23 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the CA area, and CA23 itself, which ranks 27 of 28 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CA19 | £336,200 | +3% |
| CA12 | £330,000 | +0% |
| CA21 | £328,600 | +43% |
| CA4 | £316,100 | +19% |
| CA5 | £288,800 | +12% |
| CA10 | £287,000 | +9% |
| CA9 | £276,500 | +35% |
| CA17 | £265,000 | +6% |
| CA13 | £260,500 | +6% |
| CA27 | £252,500 | +29% |
| CA16 | £243,800 | +8% |
| CA11 | £232,800 | +10% |
| CA8 | £225,000 | +2% |
| CA6 | £220,000 | +19% |
| CA18 | £220,000 | -3% |
| CA7 | £210,000 | +17% |
| CA3 | £206,000 | +12% |
| CA20 | £202,500 | +7% |
| CA14 | £170,000 | +38% |
| CA15 | £165,000 | +35% |
| CA28 | £163,500 | +18% |
| CA1 | £150,500 | +15% |
| CA2 | £150,000 | +22% |
| CA23 (this report) | £117,500 | +35% |
Selling in CA23? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CA23, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CA23's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CA23 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.