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Carlisle market report CA3
The CA3 (Carlisle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,637 HM Land Registry entries for CA3 (Carlisle), 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CA3 (Carlisle) is £206,000, from 100 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £217,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,240 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,637 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CA3 is a postcode district covering Carlisle (north) in Carlisle. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CA3 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.
CA3 sold prices: where the market stands
The CA3 median stands at £206,000 for 2026, built from 100 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £217,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CA3
The last five years of sales put CA3 at roughly £2,240 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CA3 sits 28% below the national market.
The price of a typical CA3 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £206,000 | £206,000 | 100 |
| 2025 | £218,800 | £224,032 | 288 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 302 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 308 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 389 |
| 2021 | £184,000 | £232,968 | 419 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 295 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 308 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 306 |
| 2017 | £167,000 | £227,771 | 322 |
| 2016 | £167,500 | £234,334 | 277 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 269 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 231 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 241 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 178 |
| 2011 | £149,000 | £224,933 | 211 |
| 2010 | £139,000 | £217,988 | 208 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 180 |
| 2008 | £152,000 | £249,160 | 200 |
| 2007 | £162,800 | £276,154 | 366 |
| 2006 | £152,700 | £265,068 | 336 |
| 2005 | £142,800 | £254,126 | 284 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 383 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 415 |
| 2002 | £82,000 | £154,282 | 372 |
| 2001 | £62,000 | £119,192 | 381 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 326 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 329 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 319 |
| 1997 | £57,600 | £118,126 | 384 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 383 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 327 |
In cash terms the typical CA3 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £206,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 81%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CA3 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 2003 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CA3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.9% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £82,000 for a flat, 3.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CA3
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 | £310,000 | 21 | 2,749 |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | 48 | 4,115 |
| Terraced | £171,300 | 18 | 1,971 |
| Flats | £82,000 | 13 | 802 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 215 sales completed in CA3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 358 sales a year before the financial crisis and 277 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.
The rental side of CA3
CA3 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.
Against the £206,000 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
What people ask about CA3 (Carlisle)
How much did a house sell for in CA3 (Carlisle)?
Are property prices falling in CA3 (Carlisle)?
Is CA3 (Carlisle) a good place to buy a house?
Are CA3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What is for sale in CA3 right now
Everything above is what homes in CA3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the CA3 median sold price.
12% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 CA3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CA
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
CA3 ranks 14 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.
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.
Inside CA3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA3 0 | £230,000 | 43 |
| CA3 8 | £80,000 | 5 |
| CA3 9 | £173,500 | 52 |
How CA3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CA area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| CA22 | £128,800 | -1% |
Before you sell in CA3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CA3'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.
Estate agents working CA3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CA3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CA3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CA3 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.
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.