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Walney Island market report LA14 2, Barrow-In-Furness
The LA14 2 (Walney Island) 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: 3,717 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA14 2 (Barrow-In-Furness) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LA14 2 (Barrow-In-Furness) came in at £96,000, out of 32 registered, up 36% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £95,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,100 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,717 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LA14 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LA14 (Barrow-In-Furness). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LA14 2 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.
LA14 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LA14 2 home went for £96,000. The mean is £95,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in LA14 2
Per square metre, LA14 2 homes have averaged around £1,100 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA14 2 trades 66% below the country as a whole.
A typical LA14 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £96,000 | £96,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £85,000 | £87,033 | 71 |
| 2024 | £80,000 | £85,056 | 68 |
| 2023 | £76,600 | £84,165 | 82 |
| 2022 | £80,000 | £93,809 | 90 |
| 2021 | £70,600 | £89,389 | 88 |
| 2020 | £64,800 | £84,079 | 70 |
| 2019 | £63,000 | £82,578 | 89 |
| 2018 | £67,000 | £89,312 | 77 |
| 2017 | £65,800 | £89,745 | 104 |
| 2016 | £54,100 | £75,686 | 90 |
| 2015 | £55,000 | £77,715 | 117 |
| 2014 | £52,500 | £74,480 | 116 |
| 2013 | £48,000 | £69,067 | 116 |
| 2012 | £55,000 | £80,953 | 97 |
| 2011 | £59,400 | £89,671 | 82 |
| 2010 | £60,000 | £94,095 | 69 |
| 2009 | £65,000 | £104,488 | 58 |
| 2008 | £72,000 | £118,023 | 101 |
| 2007 | £68,000 | £115,347 | 207 |
| 2006 | £57,500 | £99,813 | 218 |
| 2005 | £52,500 | £93,429 | 189 |
| 2004 | £42,000 | £76,280 | 248 |
| 2003 | £25,000 | £46,056 | 196 |
| 2002 | £21,000 | £39,511 | 171 |
| 2001 | £19,000 | £36,527 | 147 |
| 2000 | £19,000 | £37,288 | 123 |
| 1999 | £19,000 | £37,866 | 119 |
| 1998 | £19,000 | £38,353 | 117 |
| 1997 | £15,000 | £30,762 | 138 |
| 1996 | £16,000 | £33,743 | 118 |
| 1995 | £14,000 | £30,434 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical LA14 2 home went from £14,000 in 1995 to £96,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 215%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA14 2 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 (+68.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−12.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LA14 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.9% | +10.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 32 LA14 2 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 187 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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 LA14 2 is
This is a thin market: 32 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the LA14 district median, LA14 2 sits 35% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around LA14 2
The local authority for LA14 2 is Westmorland and Furness, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £96,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 10.1% 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.
LA14 2 (Walney Island): the questions that come up
Is LA14 2 (Walney Island) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA14 2 (Walney Island)?
Are property prices falling in LA14 2 (Walney Island)?
Will LA14 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% 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 LA14 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 2 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA14 district, not just LA14 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every LA14 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
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 LA14
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LA14, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA14 1 | £88,000 | 12 |
| LA14 3 | £159,000 | 77 |
| LA14 4 | £259,000 | 32 |
| LA14 5 | £146,500 | 88 |
Zoom out to the full LA14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LA14 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA14 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA14 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA14 2 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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The live map plots every individual LA14 2 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.