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Aldcliffe market report LA1 3, Lancaster
The LA1 3 (Aldcliffe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,312 HM Land Registry entries for LA1 3 (Lancaster), 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LA1 3 (Lancaster) sold for £174,400 in 2026, the median of 66 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £221,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,420 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,312 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LA1 3 is one sector of LA1 (Lancaster): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LA1 3 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 LA1 3
The LA1 3 median stands at £174,400 for 2026, built from 66 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £221,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in LA1 3
Per square metre, LA1 3 homes have averaged around £2,420 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, LA1 3 sits 39% below the national market.
A typical LA1 3 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 | £174,400 | £174,400 | 66 |
| 2025 | £172,000 | £176,113 | 177 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 165 |
| 2023 | £168,000 | £184,591 | 180 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 183 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 246 |
| 2020 | £141,800 | £183,988 | 156 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 208 |
| 2018 | £167,500 | £223,281 | 287 |
| 2017 | £158,100 | £215,633 | 293 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 313 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 311 |
| 2014 | £134,000 | £190,102 | 254 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 152 |
| 2012 | £121,000 | £178,097 | 164 |
| 2011 | £120,700 | £182,211 | 154 |
| 2010 | £118,800 | £186,309 | 146 |
| 2009 | £114,500 | £184,060 | 153 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 142 |
| 2007 | £123,200 | £208,982 | 336 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 344 |
| 2005 | £114,000 | £202,874 | 228 |
| 2004 | £104,000 | £188,884 | 278 |
| 2003 | £84,500 | £155,669 | 389 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 444 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 292 |
| 2000 | £44,600 | £87,528 | 296 |
| 1999 | £40,100 | £79,917 | 223 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 199 |
| 1997 | £38,200 | £78,340 | 182 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 186 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical LA1 3 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £174,400 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 117%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA1 3 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 2002 (+32.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−18.9%). 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) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.1% | −4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in LA1 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 66 sales completed in LA1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 326 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 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.
How LA1 3 trades
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 tenants pay around LA1 3
The local authority for LA1 3 is Lancaster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £807 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £590 a month here against £1,203 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lancaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £174,400 median purchase price, a rent of £807 a month (£9,684 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
Common questions on LA1 3 (Aldcliffe)
How much did a house sell for in LA1 3 (Aldcliffe)?
Are property prices falling in LA1 3 (Aldcliffe)?
Is LA1 3 (Aldcliffe) a good place to buy a house?
Are LA1 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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 LA1 right now
The live side of the market holds 89 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA1 district, not just LA1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 LA1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LA 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LA1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LA1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA1 1 | £140,000 | 24 |
| LA1 2 | £157,500 | 49 |
| LA1 4 | £217,500 | 68 |
| LA1 5 | £235,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full LA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LA1 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LA1 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA1 3 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.