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Dalton-in-Furness market report LA15 8, Dalton-In-Furness
The standing LA15 8 (Dalton-in-Furness) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,063 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA15 8 (Dalton-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: 65 registered 2026 sales put the LA15 8 (Dalton-In-Furness) median at £168,000, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £179,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,063 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LA15 8 is one sector of LA15 (Dalton-In-Furness): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where LA15 8 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 LA15 8 prices, from the sold record
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LA15 8 home went for £168,000. The mean is £179,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
LA15 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, LA15 8 homes have averaged around £1,980 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LA15 8 sits 41% below the national market.
LA15 8's median sold price, 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 | £168,000 | £168,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 156 |
| 2024 | £151,000 | £160,544 | 146 |
| 2023 | £142,000 | £156,023 | 137 |
| 2022 | £160,500 | £188,205 | 172 |
| 2021 | £137,000 | £173,460 | 187 |
| 2020 | £142,200 | £184,507 | 148 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 132 |
| 2018 | £116,000 | £154,630 | 142 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 145 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 142 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 151 |
| 2014 | £108,000 | £153,217 | 145 |
| 2013 | £103,500 | £148,926 | 105 |
| 2012 | £97,000 | £142,772 | 117 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 99 |
| 2010 | £99,800 | £156,512 | 110 |
| 2009 | £102,800 | £165,252 | 80 |
| 2008 | £113,200 | £185,559 | 106 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 221 |
| 2006 | £97,200 | £168,727 | 222 |
| 2005 | £80,500 | £143,258 | 208 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 224 |
| 2003 | £54,300 | £100,034 | 238 |
| 2002 | £45,600 | £85,796 | 261 |
| 2001 | £38,800 | £74,591 | 226 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 204 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 175 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 163 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 181 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 145 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical LA15 8 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £168,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LA15 8 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 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.4% | +5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
LA15 8 recorded 65 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 226 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
The shape of the LA15 8 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around LA15 8
LA15 8 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 £168,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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 LA15 8 (Dalton-in-Furness)
Are property prices falling in LA15 8 (Dalton-in-Furness)?
Is LA15 8 (Dalton-in-Furness) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA15 8 (Dalton-in-Furness)?
Are LA15 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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.
Zoom out to the full LA15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA15 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LA15 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA15 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA15 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA15 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working LA15 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA15 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA15 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LA15 8 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.
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.