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Hensingham market report CA28 9, Whitehaven
The CA28 9 (Hensingham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,263 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CA28 9 (Whitehaven) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 61 registered 2026 sales put the CA28 9 (Whitehaven) median at £159,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £173,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,263 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CA28 9 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 9 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 buyers actually paid in CA28 9
The CA28 9 median stands at £159,000 for 2026, built from 61 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £173,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CA28 9
The last five years of sales put CA28 9 at roughly £1,790 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CA28 9 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
CA28 9'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 | £159,000 | £159,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £188,800 | £193,315 | 158 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 153 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 127 |
| 2022 | £161,500 | £189,377 | 154 |
| 2021 | £140,500 | £177,891 | 188 |
| 2020 | £136,000 | £176,463 | 134 |
| 2019 | £132,500 | £173,676 | 116 |
| 2018 | £117,500 | £156,630 | 121 |
| 2017 | £131,000 | £178,671 | 132 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 132 |
| 2015 | £123,700 | £174,788 | 108 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 81 |
| 2013 | £89,000 | £128,062 | 105 |
| 2012 | £108,400 | £159,551 | 100 |
| 2011 | £99,000 | £149,452 | 84 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 47 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 65 |
| 2008 | £84,000 | £137,694 | 72 |
| 2007 | £81,000 | £137,399 | 111 |
| 2006 | £77,000 | £133,662 | 123 |
| 2005 | £68,000 | £121,013 | 121 |
| 2004 | £57,000 | £103,523 | 102 |
| 2003 | £44,000 | £81,059 | 107 |
| 2002 | £32,500 | £61,148 | 91 |
| 2001 | £27,000 | £51,906 | 82 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 76 |
| 1999 | £28,500 | £56,799 | 66 |
| 1998 | £32,000 | £64,594 | 47 |
| 1997 | £29,000 | £59,473 | 65 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 73 |
| 1995 | £31,000 | £67,389 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical CA28 9 home went from £31,000 in 1995 to £159,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CA28 9 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 2015 (+37.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.8% | −17.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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 9
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 register shows 61 CA28 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 131 sales a year over the last five years against 102 before the financial crisis. 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 CA28 9
For renting purposes CA28 9 sits in Cumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £666 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £159,000 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 5.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How CA28 9 trades
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Common questions on CA28 9 (Hensingham)
Is CA28 9 (Hensingham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA28 9 (Hensingham)?
Are property prices falling in CA28 9 (Hensingham)?
What happens to CA28 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
CA28's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
67% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CA: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CA area. 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
The spread across the CA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 8 | £140,000 | 45 |
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 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CA28 9'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CA28 9.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CA28 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CA28 9 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.