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Aldcliffe market report LA1, Lancaster
The LA1 (Aldcliffe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 29,573 registered sales in LA1 (Lancaster) 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 middle 2026 sale in LA1 (Lancaster) came in at £182,800, out of 260 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £215,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 29,573 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LA1 is the postcode district covering Lancaster, Aldcliffe, Bailrigg in Lancaster. 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 LA1 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
The LA1 median stands at £182,800 for 2026, built from 260 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £215,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in LA1
Per square metre, LA1 homes have averaged around £2,380 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA1 36% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LA1 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 | £182,800 | £182,800 | 260 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 708 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 695 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 693 |
| 2022 | £177,500 | £208,139 | 803 |
| 2021 | £162,000 | £205,113 | 955 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 689 |
| 2019 | £147,000 | £192,682 | 805 |
| 2018 | £146,600 | £195,421 | 1,008 |
| 2017 | £149,000 | £203,221 | 1,033 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 977 |
| 2015 | £142,000 | £200,646 | 958 |
| 2014 | £134,000 | £190,102 | 935 |
| 2013 | £124,000 | £178,424 | 707 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 610 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 654 |
| 2010 | £124,000 | £194,464 | 677 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 708 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 614 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 1,236 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 1,343 |
| 2005 | £117,000 | £208,213 | 1,009 |
| 2004 | £112,000 | £203,414 | 1,314 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 1,509 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 1,640 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 1,338 |
| 2000 | £48,500 | £95,181 | 1,230 |
| 1999 | £46,500 | £92,672 | 954 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 946 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 926 |
| 1996 | £43,300 | £91,318 | 886 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 753 |
In cash terms the typical LA1 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £182,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 96%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA1 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.4%). 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, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, LA1
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 | 25 | 3,174 |
| Semi-detached | £236,000 | 80 | 8,154 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 121 | 13,737 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 34 | 4,508 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in LA1
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 563 LA1 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 1,327 sales a year before the financial crisis and 632 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.
What tenants pay around LA1
For renting purposes LA1 sits in Lancaster. The ONS average private rent there is £807 a month (May 2026). 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 £182,800 median purchase price, a rent of £807 a month (£9,684 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
What people ask about LA1 (Aldcliffe)
Is LA1 (Aldcliffe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA1 (Aldcliffe)?
Are property prices falling in LA1 (Aldcliffe)?
Will LA1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What is for sale in LA1 right now
Everything above is what homes in LA1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 89 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the LA1 median sold price.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Bowerham Road, Lancaster, Lancashire,...
- Scotforth Road, Lancaster, Lancashire...
- Grant Close, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LA1 ranks 10 of 23 in the LA 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.
LA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LA1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA1 1 | £140,000 | 24 |
| LA1 2 | £157,500 | 49 |
| LA1 3 | £174,400 | 66 |
| LA1 4 | £217,500 | 68 |
| LA1 5 | £235,000 | 53 |
How LA1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LA22 | £430,000 | -4% |
| LA23 | £365,000 | +11% |
| LA8 | £350,000 | +3% |
| LA21 | £340,000 | -3% |
| LA11 | £301,200 | +8% |
| LA10 | £300,000 | +18% |
| LA7 | £278,800 | +5% |
| LA16 | £275,500 | +50% |
| LA5 | £275,000 | +15% |
| LA2 | £271,500 | +4% |
| LA9 | £260,000 | +13% |
| LA6 | £250,000 | -18% |
| LA12 | £250,000 | +7% |
| LA20 | £245,000 | -18% |
| LA3 | £205,000 | +25% |
| LA13 | £205,000 | +7% |
| LA19 | £190,500 | +60% |
| LA1 (this report) | £182,800 | +13% |
| LA4 | £181,500 | +13% |
| LA15 | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Selling a home in LA1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA1, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA1 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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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual LA1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.