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Hensingham market report CA28 7, Whitehaven
The standing CA28 7 (Hensingham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,689 registered sales in CA28 7 (Whitehaven) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 25 registered 2026 sales put the CA28 7 (Whitehaven) median at £183,000, up 31% on five years earlier, with a mean of £186,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,689 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CA28 7 is one sector of CA28 (Whitehaven): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CA28 7 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 7 sells for
The CA28 7 median stands at £183,000 for 2026, built from 25 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £186,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CA28 7 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CA28 7 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CA28 7 sits 36% below the national market.
The price of a typical CA28 7 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £183,000 | £183,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £142,500 | £145,908 | 71 |
| 2024 | £135,000 | £143,533 | 47 |
| 2023 | £90,000 | £98,888 | 49 |
| 2022 | £114,000 | £133,678 | 60 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 63 |
| 2020 | £119,000 | £154,405 | 40 |
| 2019 | £136,000 | £178,263 | 54 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 39 |
| 2017 | £137,500 | £187,536 | 63 |
| 2016 | £90,000 | £125,911 | 32 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 37 |
| 2014 | £129,500 | £183,718 | 50 |
| 2013 | £129,000 | £185,618 | 29 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 31 |
| 2011 | £137,000 | £206,817 | 36 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 47 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 61 |
| 2008 | £133,800 | £219,326 | 52 |
| 2007 | £132,500 | £224,757 | 92 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 71 |
| 2005 | £110,200 | £196,112 | 70 |
| 2004 | £86,000 | £156,193 | 53 |
| 2003 | £61,000 | £112,377 | 74 |
| 2002 | £52,500 | £98,778 | 68 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 79 |
| 2000 | £43,000 | £84,388 | 41 |
| 1999 | £43,800 | £87,291 | 66 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 33 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 52 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 57 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical CA28 7 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £183,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 75%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CA28 7 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 2017 (+52.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−21.1%). 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) | +28.4% | +25.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.4% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in CA28 7
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CA28 7 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 69 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around CA28 7
CA28 7 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 £183,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
What kind of market CA28 7 is
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within CA28, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about CA28 7 (Hensingham)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in CA28 now
Turning to what is actually available: 4 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CA28 district, not just CA28 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 67% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CA28 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CA: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CA area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the CA area, five years
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 6 | £190,000 | 73 |
| 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.
Selling in CA28 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CA28 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CA28 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CA28 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CA28 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CA28 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.