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Walney Island market report LA14 4, Barrow-In-Furness
The LA14 4 (Walney Island) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,979 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA14 4 (Barrow-In-Furness) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the LA14 4 (Barrow-In-Furness) median at £259,000, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £282,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,979 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LA14 4 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 4 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 LA14 4 homes really sell for
In the LA14 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £259,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £282,700, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LA14 4
A square metre of LA14 4 home has cost about £2,760 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA14 4 9% below the country at large.
A typical LA14 4 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 | £259,000 | £259,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 95 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 93 |
| 2023 | £242,500 | £266,448 | 91 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 121 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 145 |
| 2020 | £213,000 | £276,372 | 81 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 103 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 88 |
| 2017 | £184,000 | £250,958 | 107 |
| 2016 | £177,500 | £248,324 | 109 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 98 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 80 |
| 2013 | £152,500 | £219,432 | 80 |
| 2012 | £163,500 | £240,652 | 71 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 55 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 70 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 77 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 53 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 106 |
| 2006 | £147,200 | £255,520 | 113 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 108 |
| 2004 | £121,900 | £221,394 | 118 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 109 |
| 2002 | £82,700 | £155,599 | 126 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 99 |
| 2000 | £64,500 | £126,581 | 99 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 79 |
| 1998 | £57,200 | £115,462 | 100 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 117 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 83 |
| 1995 | £51,200 | £111,301 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical LA14 4 home went from £51,200 in 1995 to £259,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA14 4 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 2003 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LA14 4
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 register shows 32 LA14 4 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 110 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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.
Reading the LA14 4 market
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA14 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the LA14 district median, LA14 4 sits 76% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of LA14 4
The local authority for LA14 4 is Westmorland and Furness, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £595 a month here against £1,305 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£805 a month is £9,660 a year, which against the £259,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: LA14 4 (Walney Island)
Are property prices falling in LA14 4 (Walney Island)?
Is LA14 4 (Walney Island) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA14 4 (Walney Island)?
Are LA14 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 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 you could buy in LA14 now
The live side of the market holds 2 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA14 district, not just LA14 4: 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LA prices by size
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LA14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LA14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA14 1 | £88,000 | 12 |
| LA14 2 | £96,000 | 32 |
| LA14 3 | £159,000 | 77 |
| 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.
Before you sell in LA14 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LA14 4'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LA14 4.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual LA14 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.