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Millom market report LA18
The LA18 (Millom) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,398 registered sales in LA18 (Millom) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LA18 (Millom) sold for £105,000 in 2026, the median of 43 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £124,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,510 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,398 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LA18 is the postcode district covering Millom in Millom. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LA18 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.
The going rate for a home in LA18
43 sales were registered in LA18 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £105,000. The mean works out at £124,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in LA18
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LA18 costs about £1,510 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA18 63% below the country at large.
LA18'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 | £105,000 | £105,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £137,200 | £140,481 | 128 |
| 2024 | £120,000 | £127,585 | 115 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 115 |
| 2022 | £114,000 | £133,678 | 113 |
| 2021 | £110,000 | £139,274 | 165 |
| 2020 | £119,500 | £155,054 | 101 |
| 2019 | £100,000 | £131,076 | 120 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 126 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 119 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 125 |
| 2015 | £98,000 | £138,474 | 136 |
| 2014 | £89,500 | £126,971 | 107 |
| 2013 | £97,200 | £139,861 | 102 |
| 2012 | £83,500 | £122,902 | 94 |
| 2011 | £89,200 | £134,658 | 84 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 96 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 101 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 133 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 212 |
| 2006 | £97,500 | £169,248 | 173 |
| 2005 | £78,000 | £138,809 | 189 |
| 2004 | £61,800 | £112,241 | 206 |
| 2003 | £46,000 | £84,743 | 225 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 229 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 188 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 164 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 165 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 139 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 149 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 126 |
| 1995 | £32,800 | £71,302 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical LA18 home went from £32,800 in 1995 to £105,000 in 2026, roughly 3.2 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 47%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 38% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA18 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 (+34.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−23.5%). 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 years (since 2025) | −23.5% | −25.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.4% | −2.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 59% of the typed total. In 2008, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £181,500 against £70,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, LA18
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 | £285,000 (2025) | – | 821 |
| Semi-detached | £158,000 (2025) | – | 969 |
| Terraced | £92,500 | 36 | 2,561 |
| Flats | £70,000 (2008) | – | 24 |
Transaction volumes
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
LA18 recorded 99 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 198 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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 rental side of LA18
LA18 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £105,000 median sold price, £666 a month is £7,992 a year, a gross yield of 7.6%: 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 LA18 market
This is a thin market: 99 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. 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. By median price LA18 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
What people ask about LA18 (Millom)
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Are LA18 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
LA18's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in LA18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 5 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 233% above the LA18 median sold price.
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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — | — |
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
LA18 ranks 20 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.
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.
Inside LA18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA18 4 | £92,500 | 26 |
| LA18 5 | £125,000 | 17 |
How LA18 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 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 (this report) | £105,000 | -5% |
Before you sell in LA18: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA18 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.