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Lancaster market report LA
The LA (Lancaster) 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: 194,575 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the LA postcode area (Lancaster) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical the LA postcode area (Lancaster) home changed hands for £215,000 in 2026 (median of 1,877 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £248,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 194,575 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The LA postcode area centred on Lancaster covers 23 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where LA 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 LA
The 2026 median for LA is £215,000, taken from 1,877 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £248,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
LA prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in LA have sold for about £2,630 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA trades 25% below the country as a whole.
A typical LA home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 1,877 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 5,102 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 4,865 |
| 2023 | £214,000 | £235,134 | 4,801 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 5,799 |
| 2021 | £197,000 | £249,427 | 7,263 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 4,988 |
| 2019 | £173,000 | £226,762 | 5,684 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 5,877 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 6,064 |
| 2016 | £162,000 | £226,640 | 5,892 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 5,928 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 5,704 |
| 2013 | £143,000 | £205,763 | 4,745 |
| 2012 | £142,000 | £209,006 | 4,207 |
| 2011 | £138,000 | £208,327 | 4,353 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 4,369 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 4,431 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 4,354 |
| 2007 | £141,000 | £239,175 | 8,002 |
| 2006 | £134,500 | £233,475 | 8,445 |
| 2005 | £124,000 | £220,670 | 6,735 |
| 2004 | £112,500 | £204,322 | 8,293 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 9,032 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 9,538 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 8,421 |
| 2000 | £57,800 | £113,433 | 7,854 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 7,216 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 6,958 |
| 1997 | £49,500 | £101,515 | 6,882 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 6,011 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 4,885 |
In cash terms the typical LA home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 113%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA 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 2004 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.8%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £135,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, LA
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 | £375,000 | 388 | 40,337 |
| Semi-detached | £236,000 | 608 | 59,733 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 708 | 73,783 |
| Flats | £135,000 | 173 | 20,722 |
What LA has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 4,052 LA sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8,290 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,489 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 LA
The local authority for LA is Westmorland and Furness, the local authority covering most of the LA area (parts fall under Lancaster and Cumberland, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £595 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,305 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £215,000 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
LA (Lancaster): the questions that come up
Is LA (Lancaster) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA (Lancaster)?
Are property prices falling in LA (Lancaster)?
Are LA prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
LA's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in LA sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 769 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 37% above the LA median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Plum Green, Finsthwaite, Ulverston, Ulverston
- Ribblesdale Court, Euston Road, Morec...
- Poulton Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4
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 LA home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: LA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the LA area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £270,000 | £382,995 (+42%) | £550,000 (+44%) | £715,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £200,000 (+14%) | £250,000 (+25%) | £340,000 (+36%) | £492,500 (+45%) |
| Terraced | £136,000 | £140,000 (+3%) | £177,000 (+26%) | £240,000 (+36%) | £345,000 (+44%) |
| Flat | £115,000 | £167,750 (+46%) | £265,000 (+58%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the LA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the LA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every LA district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA22 Ambleside, Chapel Stile | £430,000 | -4% | 19 |
| LA23 Windermere, Bowness-on-Windermere | £365,000 | +11% | 45 |
| LA8 Brigsteer, Grayrigg | £350,000 | +3% | 36 |
| LA21 Coniston, Torver | £340,000 | -3% | 5 |
| LA11 Grange-over-Sands, Allithwaite | £301,200 | +8% | 58 |
| LA10 Sedbergh, Dent | £300,000 | +18% | 9 |
| LA7 Milnthorpe, Beetham | £278,800 | +5% | 40 |
| LA16 Askam-in-Furness | £275,500 | +50% | 17 |
| LA5 Carnforth, Arnside | £275,000 | +15% | 83 |
| LA2 Lancaster, Abbeystead | £271,500 | +4% | 116 |
| LA9 Kendal, Burneside | £260,000 | +13% | 205 |
| LA6 Arkholme, Burton-in-Kendal | £250,000 | -18% | 60 |
| LA12 Ulverston, Aldingham | £250,000 | +7% | 137 |
| LA20 Broughton-in-Furness | £245,000 | -18% | 7 |
| LA3 Morecambe, Heysham | £205,000 | +25% | 144 |
| LA13 Barrow-in-Furness (east), Newton-in-Furness | £205,000 | +7% | 145 |
| LA19 Waberthwaite, Bootle | £190,500 | +60% | 1 |
| LA1 Lancaster, Aldcliffe | £182,800 | +13% | 260 |
| LA4 Morecambe, Torrisholme | £181,500 | +13% | 138 |
| LA15 Dalton-in-Furness | £168,000 | +23% | 65 |
| LA17 Kirkby-in-Furness | £165,000 | -37% | 3 |
| LA14 Barrow-in-Furness (west), Walney Island | £147,400 | +17% | 241 |
| LA18 Millom | £105,000 | -5% | 43 |
Selling in LA? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LA. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA 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.
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.