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Millom market report LA18 5
The standing LA18 5 (Millom) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,693 HM Land Registry entries for LA18 5 (Millom), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 28 September 2026.
In short: a typical LA18 5 (Millom) home changed hands for £135,000 in 2026 (median of 21 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £128,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,693 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LA18 5 is one sector of LA18 (Millom): 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 LA18 5 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 LA18 5 homes really sell for
21 sales were registered in LA18 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £135,000. The mean works out at £128,200, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in LA18 5
By floor space, homes in LA18 5 have sold for about £1,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA18 5 trades 53% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LA18 5 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £158,000 | £161,778 | 47 |
| 2024 | £123,500 | £131,306 | 44 |
| 2023 | £152,000 | £167,011 | 43 |
| 2022 | £133,000 | £155,958 | 45 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 59 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 40 |
| 2019 | £127,000 | £166,467 | 45 |
| 2018 | £123,500 | £164,628 | 52 |
| 2017 | £124,500 | £169,806 | 44 |
| 2016 | £114,500 | £160,187 | 54 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 61 |
| 2014 | £105,500 | £149,670 | 42 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 44 |
| 2012 | £84,500 | £124,373 | 38 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 39 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 29 |
| 2009 | £132,500 | £212,995 | 42 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 43 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 84 |
| 2006 | £114,500 | £198,757 | 66 |
| 2005 | £86,400 | £153,757 | 76 |
| 2004 | £66,000 | £119,869 | 73 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 87 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 71 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 68 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 59 |
| 1999 | £44,800 | £89,284 | 66 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 62 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 56 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 48 |
| 1995 | £32,500 | £70,650 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical LA18 5 home went from £32,500 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 91%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2009; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2009 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA18 5 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 2013 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−23.2%). 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 year (since 2025) | −14.6% | −16.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −2.8% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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 LA18 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 21 LA18 5 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 73 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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.
The shape of the LA18 5 market
This is a thin market: 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within LA18, this sector trades 23% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around LA18 5
For renting purposes LA18 5 sits in Cumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £666 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £496 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,071, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £135,000 median sold price, £666 a month is £7,992 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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.
Common questions on LA18 5 (Millom)
Are property prices falling in LA18 5 (Millom)?
Is LA18 5 (Millom) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA18 5 (Millom)?
Will LA18 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in LA18 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA18 district, not just LA18 5: 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 LA18 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.
What another bedroom costs 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 | £250,000 | £290,995 (+16%) | £370,000 (+27%) | £485,000 (+31%) | £625,000 (+29%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £195,000 (+11%) | £225,000 (+15%) | £295,000 (+31%) | £370,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £134,000 | £137,000 (+2%) | £159,950 (+17%) | £215,000 (+34%) | £266,250 (+24%) |
| Flat | £105,000 | £140,000 (+33%) | £200,000 (+43%) | £258,000 (+29%) | £364,000 (+41%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LA18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LA18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA18 4 | £96,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full LA18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LA18 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA18 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA18 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA18 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA18 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA18 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.