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Dalston market report CA5, Carlisle
The CA5 (Dalston) 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: 3,201 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA5 (Carlisle) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CA5 (Carlisle) home changed hands for £288,800 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £314,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,201 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CA5 is a postcode district covering Dalston, Burgh by Sands, Thursby 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 CA5 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.
The going rate for a home in CA5
Take the 38 registered 2026 sales in CA5 and the middle price, the median, is £288,800. The mean lands at £314,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CA5
Per square metre, CA5 homes have averaged around £2,480 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CA5 sits 1% above the national market.
The price of a typical CA5 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 | £288,800 | £288,800 | 38 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 121 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 133 |
| 2023 | £256,800 | £282,160 | 80 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 103 |
| 2021 | £259,000 | £327,927 | 139 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 103 |
| 2019 | £246,200 | £322,709 | 108 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 113 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 130 |
| 2016 | £216,500 | £302,886 | 138 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 132 |
| 2014 | £223,200 | £316,648 | 82 |
| 2013 | £178,200 | £256,412 | 83 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 67 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 81 |
| 2010 | £216,000 | £338,744 | 65 |
| 2009 | £192,500 | £309,445 | 60 |
| 2008 | £222,500 | £364,724 | 53 |
| 2007 | £234,500 | £397,777 | 118 |
| 2006 | £189,000 | £328,080 | 117 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 81 |
| 2004 | £187,000 | £339,629 | 96 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 111 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 115 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 111 |
| 2000 | £89,200 | £175,055 | 122 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 97 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 120 |
| 1997 | £81,000 | £166,115 | 107 |
| 1996 | £79,600 | £167,873 | 107 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical CA5 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £288,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CA5 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. In 2017, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £260,000 against £140,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, CA5
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 | £349,500 | 22 | 1,899 |
| Semi-detached | £189,000 | 9 | 869 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 7 | 370 |
| Flats | £140,000 (2017) | – | 13 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 82 sales completed in CA5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 95 sales a year recently, against 109 a year before 2008. 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 shape of the CA5 market
Only 82 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CA5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Among the 28 measurable districts of its area, CA5 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around CA5
The local authority for CA5 is Cumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £288,800 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 2.8% 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.
Asked and answered: CA5 (Dalston)
Are property prices falling in CA5 (Dalston)?
Is CA5 (Dalston) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to CA5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CA5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CA5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the CA5 median sold price.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 CA5 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
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CA5 ranks 15 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.
CA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CA5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA5 6 | £288,800 | 22 |
| CA5 7 | £280,000 | 16 |
How CA5 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in CA5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CA5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CA5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CA5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CA5.
Take it further
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See every individual CA5 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.
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.