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Walney Island market report LA14 3, Barrow-In-Furness
The standing LA14 3 (Walney Island) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,072 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA14 3 (Barrow-In-Furness) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for LA14 3 (Barrow-In-Furness) is £159,000, from 77 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £182,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,072 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LA14 3 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 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 LA14 3
In the LA14 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £159,000, from 77 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £182,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LA14 3
By floor space, homes in LA14 3 have sold for about £1,970 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LA14 3 runs 44% below it.
A typical LA14 3 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £159,000 | £159,000 | 77 |
| 2025 | £149,600 | £153,177 | 166 |
| 2024 | £142,500 | £151,507 | 179 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 164 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 183 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 254 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 142 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 181 |
| 2018 | £117,200 | £156,230 | 178 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 209 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 228 |
| 2015 | £109,000 | £154,017 | 216 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 165 |
| 2013 | £90,800 | £130,652 | 164 |
| 2012 | £94,000 | £138,356 | 113 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 166 |
| 2010 | £92,000 | £144,280 | 133 |
| 2009 | £93,500 | £150,302 | 129 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 120 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 246 |
| 2006 | £88,000 | £152,757 | 285 |
| 2005 | £82,500 | £146,817 | 222 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 259 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 267 |
| 2002 | £42,500 | £79,963 | 253 |
| 2001 | £38,500 | £74,014 | 249 |
| 2000 | £37,000 | £72,613 | 233 |
| 1999 | £32,500 | £64,771 | 201 |
| 1998 | £35,500 | £71,659 | 201 |
| 1997 | £33,100 | £67,881 | 164 |
| 1996 | £31,000 | £65,378 | 189 |
| 1995 | £31,800 | £69,128 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical LA14 3 home went from £31,800 in 1995 to £159,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA14 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 2004 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−8.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in LA14 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
LA14 3 recorded 77 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 252 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 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 homes rent for around LA14 3
LA14 3 falls under Westmorland and Furness, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £159,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
The shape of the LA14 3 market
Against the LA14 district median, LA14 3 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about LA14 3 (Walney Island)
Is LA14 3 (Walney Island) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA14 3 (Walney Island)?
Are property prices falling in LA14 3 (Walney Island)?
Are LA14 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
LA14's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 2 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA14 district, not just LA14 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% 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.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in LA: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LA area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the LA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £96,000 | 32 |
| 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.
Selling a home in LA14 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LA14 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working LA14 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA14 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA14 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA14 3 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.
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.