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Hensingham market report CA28 8, Whitehaven
The CA28 8 (Hensingham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,769 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CA28 8 (Whitehaven) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CA28 8 (Whitehaven) is £140,000, from 45 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £166,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,570 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,769 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 8 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 8 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 CA28 8 homes really sell for
The CA28 8 median stands at £140,000 for 2026, built from 45 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £166,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in CA28 8
A square metre of CA28 8 home has cost about £1,570 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CA28 8 runs 51% below it.
The price of a typical CA28 8 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £135,000 | £138,228 | 124 |
| 2024 | £137,500 | £146,191 | 110 |
| 2023 | £122,000 | £134,048 | 88 |
| 2022 | £128,000 | £150,095 | 147 |
| 2021 | £114,500 | £144,972 | 154 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 117 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 120 |
| 2018 | £105,000 | £139,967 | 120 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 115 |
| 2016 | £108,500 | £151,793 | 132 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 127 |
| 2014 | £103,000 | £146,123 | 115 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 109 |
| 2012 | £94,500 | £139,092 | 78 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 79 |
| 2010 | £105,500 | £165,451 | 84 |
| 2009 | £97,000 | £155,928 | 69 |
| 2008 | £99,000 | £162,282 | 103 |
| 2007 | £104,000 | £176,413 | 179 |
| 2006 | £91,000 | £157,964 | 180 |
| 2005 | £82,500 | £146,817 | 145 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 175 |
| 2003 | £52,500 | £96,718 | 176 |
| 2002 | £39,000 | £73,378 | 155 |
| 2001 | £37,000 | £71,131 | 136 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 114 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 128 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 97 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 86 |
| 1996 | £33,200 | £70,017 | 78 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical CA28 8 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 69%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CA28 8 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 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CA28 8
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in CA28 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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 8
The local authority for CA28 8 is Cumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £140,000 median sold price, £666 a month is £7,992 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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 8 trades
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CA28 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the CA28 district median, CA28 8 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on CA28 8 (Hensingham)
Is CA28 8 (Hensingham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA28 8 (Hensingham)?
Are property prices falling in CA28 8 (Hensingham)?
Where do CA28 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in CA28 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 4 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CA28 district, not just CA28 8: 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CA28 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: CA prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CA area. 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%) | — | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 7 | £183,000 | 25 |
| 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 a home in CA28 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CA28 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the CA28 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CA28 8 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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See every individual CA28 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.