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Dalton-in-Furness market report LA15, Dalton-In-Furness
The standing LA15 (Dalton-in-Furness) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,063 HM Land Registry entries for LA15 (Dalton-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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LA15 (Dalton-In-Furness) is £168,000, from 65 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier; the mean is £179,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,063 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district LA15 covering Dalton-in-Furness sits in Dalton-In-Furness. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LA15 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.
LA15 sold prices: where the market stands
65 sales were registered in LA15 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £168,000. The mean works out at £179,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in LA15
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LA15 costs about £1,980 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LA15 41% below the national figure.
LA15'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 | £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 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £168,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% 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 LA15 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £282,500 against £95,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, LA15
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 | £330,000 | 7 | 440 |
| Semi-detached | £217,500 | 20 | 1,464 |
| Terraced | £130,000 | 35 | 3,028 |
| Flats | £95,000 (2022) | – | 76 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| 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% |
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 LA15
The year-by-year sales count
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 132 sales completed in LA15. 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. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around LA15
LA15 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.
Reading the LA15 market
Only 132 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA15 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, LA15 ranks 20 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on LA15 (Dalton-in-Furness)
How much did a house sell for in LA15 (Dalton-in-Furness)?
Are property prices falling in LA15 (Dalton-in-Furness)?
Is LA15 (Dalton-in-Furness) a good place to buy a house?
Will LA15 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LA15 ranks 4 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside LA15, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA15 8 | £168,000 | 65 |
How LA15 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 (this report) | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Before you sell in LA15: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA15, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA15's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA15 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.