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Longtown market report CA6, Carlisle
The CA6 (Longtown) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,903 registered sales in CA6 (Carlisle) 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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CA6 (Carlisle) is £220,000, from 39 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £239,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,903 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CA6 is a postcode district covering Longtown, Penton, Blackford 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 CA6 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.
CA6 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 39 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CA6 home went for £220,000. The mean is £239,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CA6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CA6 sales average about £2,170 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CA6 runs 23% below it.
The price of a typical CA6 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 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 121 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 123 |
| 2023 | £219,500 | £241,177 | 100 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 123 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 195 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 128 |
| 2019 | £166,000 | £217,586 | 129 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 106 |
| 2017 | £187,200 | £255,322 | 146 |
| 2016 | £155,500 | £217,546 | 133 |
| 2015 | £174,000 | £245,862 | 145 |
| 2014 | £178,500 | £253,233 | 155 |
| 2013 | £177,000 | £254,685 | 106 |
| 2012 | £162,500 | £239,180 | 86 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 85 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 87 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 61 |
| 2008 | £172,000 | £281,944 | 88 |
| 2007 | £191,000 | £323,989 | 168 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 167 |
| 2005 | £148,500 | £264,270 | 156 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 134 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 144 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 167 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 167 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 102 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 127 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 135 |
| 1997 | £57,200 | £117,306 | 96 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 101 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 83 |
In cash terms the typical CA6 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 102%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CA6 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 (+57.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−31.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CA6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.0% | −14.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. In 2017, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £233,400 against £115,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CA6
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 | £280,000 | 19 | 2,009 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 13 | 1,029 |
| Terraced | £131,800 | 6 | 793 |
| Flats | £115,000 (2017) | – | 24 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
The last five years, month by month
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, 97 sales completed in CA6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 151 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 a year over the last five. 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 kind of market CA6 is
This is a thin market: 97 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.
What homes rent for around CA6
For renting purposes CA6 sits in Cumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £666 a month (May 2026). 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 £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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 people ask about CA6 (Longtown)
Is CA6 (Longtown) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA6 (Longtown)?
Are property prices falling in CA6 (Longtown)?
Are CA6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
CA6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CA6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 29 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the CA6 median sold price.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Ward Street, Longtown, CARLISLE, CA6
- Edenside, Cargo, Carlisle, CA6, Carlisle
- Penton, Carlisle, Cumbria
"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 CA6 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
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CA6 ranks 10 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CA6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA6 4 | £250,000 | 22 |
| CA6 5 | £192,000 | 15 |
| CA6 6 | £248,500 | 2 |
How CA6 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in CA6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CA6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CA6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CA6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CA6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CA6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CA6 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.