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Hensingham market report CA28 6, Whitehaven
The CA28 6 (Hensingham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,327 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA28 6 (Whitehaven) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CA28 6 (Whitehaven) is £190,000, from 73 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £203,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,327 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CA28 6 is a single group of streets within CA28 (Whitehaven), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CA28 6 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 a home in CA28 6 sells for
Across 73 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CA28 6 home went for £190,000. The mean is £203,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CA28 6
A square metre of CA28 6 home has cost about £2,010 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CA28 6 33% below the national figure.
The price of a typical CA28 6 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 136 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 157 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 123 |
| 2022 | £166,000 | £194,654 | 162 |
| 2021 | £157,000 | £198,782 | 214 |
| 2020 | £163,500 | £212,145 | 182 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 162 |
| 2018 | £147,000 | £195,954 | 153 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 157 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 145 |
| 2015 | £139,500 | £197,114 | 152 |
| 2014 | £134,000 | £190,102 | 128 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 125 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 123 |
| 2011 | £131,500 | £198,514 | 130 |
| 2010 | £142,500 | £223,477 | 127 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 105 |
| 2008 | £127,200 | £208,508 | 100 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 233 |
| 2006 | £121,800 | £211,429 | 212 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 183 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 180 |
| 2003 | £78,000 | £143,695 | 239 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 264 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 245 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 209 |
| 1999 | £51,500 | £102,637 | 224 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 173 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 184 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 172 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical CA28 6 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 90%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CA28 6 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 2002 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.6% | +6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 73 sales completed in CA28 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 221 sales a year before the financial crisis and 130 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around CA28 6
CA28 6 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £496 a month here against £1,071 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £666 a month is £7,992 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How CA28 6 trades
Within CA28, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CA28 6 (Hensingham)
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Where do CA28 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in CA28 today
The live side of the market holds 4 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CA28 district, not just CA28 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
67% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CA28 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CA prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CA area, 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CA28
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CA28, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA28 7 | £183,000 | 25 |
| CA28 8 | £140,000 | 45 |
| CA28 9 | £159,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full CA28 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CA28 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CA28 6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CA28 6's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CA28 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.