Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,132 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA9 (Alston) 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.
Sales data to March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
CA9 is the postcode district covering Alston, Garrigill, Nenthead in Alston. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CA9 sits
Click the map to open CA9 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£177,500median sold price, 2026
-6%five-year change (cash)
54sales in the last 12 months
5.4%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in CA9 sells for
The 2026 median in CA9 is £177,500, from 7 registered sales; the mean, £260,800, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so CA9 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CA9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£177,500
£177,500
7
2025
£225,000
£225,000
49
2024
£260,000
£269,977
39
2023
£170,000
£182,426
41
2022
£217,500
£249,087
40
2021
£189,000
£233,710
68
2020
£160,000
£202,755
32
2019
£156,500
£200,343
42
2018
£169,000
£220,019
43
2017
£150,000
£199,807
46
2016
£165,000
£225,446
36
2015
£157,500
£217,350
38
2014
£119,000
£164,880
38
2013
£177,500
£249,440
17
2012
£120,000
£172,500
18
2011
£133,500
£196,827
25
2010
£125,000
£191,454
25
2009
£138,500
£217,440
18
2008
£145,000
£232,135
24
2007
£150,000
£248,499
53
2006
£185,000
£313,636
44
2005
£160,000
£278,086
39
2004
£133,000
£235,913
34
2003
£110,000
£197,914
38
2002
£71,800
£131,936
44
2001
£60,000
£112,653
45
2000
£53,500
£102,542
40
1999
£39,500
£76,883
32
1998
£49,500
£97,586
32
1997
£45,500
£91,132
21
1996
£44,200
£91,039
40
1995
£30,200
£64,117
24
In cash terms the typical CA9 home went from £30,200 in 1995 to £177,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 177%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 43% 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 CA9 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 (+53.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−33.0%). 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)
−21.1%
−21.1%
5 years (since 2021)
−1.2%
−5.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+0.7%
−2.4%
20 years (since 2006)
−0.2%
−2.8%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CA9 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 35 sales a year recently, against 42 a year before 2008. 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 homes rent for around CA9
CA9 falls under Westmorland and Furness, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £595 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,305, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £177,500 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
Will CA9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
CA9 ranks 25 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CA9, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.