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Walney Island market report LA14, Barrow-In-Furness
The LA14 (Walney Island) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 23,206 HM Land Registry entries for LA14 (Barrow-In-Furness), 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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LA14 (Barrow-In-Furness) came in at £147,400, out of 241 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £172,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 23,206 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LA14 is a postcode district covering Barrow-in-Furness (west), Walney Island in Barrow-In-Furness. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where LA14 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.
Today's LA14 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for LA14 is £147,400, taken from 241 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £172,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in LA14
The last five years of sales put LA14 at roughly £1,810 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA14 trades 48% below the country as a whole.
LA14's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £147,400 | £147,400 | 241 |
| 2025 | £136,000 | £139,252 | 568 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 558 |
| 2023 | £132,500 | £145,585 | 568 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 669 |
| 2021 | £125,500 | £158,899 | 826 |
| 2020 | £109,000 | £141,430 | 531 |
| 2019 | £105,800 | £138,678 | 630 |
| 2018 | £109,500 | £145,966 | 616 |
| 2017 | £102,500 | £139,800 | 693 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 718 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 730 |
| 2014 | £92,000 | £130,518 | 614 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 560 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 479 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 550 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 529 |
| 2009 | £84,000 | £135,031 | 491 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 567 |
| 2007 | £85,000 | £144,184 | 1,131 |
| 2006 | £73,000 | £126,719 | 1,170 |
| 2005 | £65,500 | £116,564 | 988 |
| 2004 | £52,000 | £94,442 | 1,237 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 1,081 |
| 2002 | £34,000 | £63,971 | 1,023 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 896 |
| 2000 | £31,800 | £62,408 | 856 |
| 1999 | £29,600 | £58,991 | 788 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 810 |
| 1997 | £28,000 | £57,422 | 785 |
| 1996 | £26,000 | £54,833 | 705 |
| 1995 | £26,000 | £56,520 | 598 |
In cash terms the typical LA14 home went from £26,000 in 1995 to £147,400 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 161%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LA14 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−3.4%). 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, 68% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £292,500 against £69,500 for a flat, 4.2 times the price.
Median by property type, LA14
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 | £290,000 | 20 | 1,338 |
| Semi-detached | £208,800 | 64 | 5,497 |
| Terraced | £123,200 | 156 | 15,826 |
| Flats | £69,500 (2025) | – | 544 |
What LA14 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.4% | +5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 458 LA14 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 1,048 sales a year before the financial crisis and 521 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 LA14
The local authority for LA14 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.
Set against the £147,400 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 6.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the LA14 market
Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, LA14 ranks 22 by median price: towards the affordable end.
LA14 (Walney Island): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LA14 (Walney Island)?
Are property prices falling in LA14 (Walney Island)?
Is LA14 (Walney Island) a good place to buy a house?
Will LA14 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 you could buy in LA14 now
Everything above is what homes in LA14 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 2 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the LA14 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every LA14 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
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
LA14 ranks 6 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.
Winners and losers across the LA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LA14, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA14 1 | £88,000 | 12 |
| LA14 2 | £96,000 | 32 |
| LA14 3 | £159,000 | 77 |
| LA14 4 | £259,000 | 32 |
| LA14 5 | £146,500 | 88 |
How LA14 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 | £182,800 | +13% |
| LA4 | £181,500 | +13% |
| LA15 | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 (this report) | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Selling a home in LA14? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA14, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA14's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA14 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LA14.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA14 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LA14 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.