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Waberthwaite market report LA19, Millom
The LA19 (Waberthwaite) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 340 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA19 (Millom) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to March 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical LA19 (Millom) home changed hands for £190,500 in 2026 (median of 1 registered sales, up 60% on five years earlier), with the mean at £190,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 340 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LA19 is the postcode district covering Waberthwaite, Bootle 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 LA19 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 LA19
In the LA19 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £190,500, from 1 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £190,500, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in LA19
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LA19 sales average about £1,760 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA19 33% below the country at large.
A typical LA19 home, priced year by year (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 | £190,500 | £190,500 | 1 |
| 2025 | £148,800 | £152,358 | 12 |
| 2024 | £134,300 | £142,788 | 8 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 9 |
| 2022 | £120,000 | £140,714 | 15 |
| 2021 | £118,800 | £150,416 | 18 |
| 2020 | £201,200 | £261,061 | 10 |
| 2019 | £184,200 | £241,442 | 8 |
| 2018 | £157,000 | £209,284 | 7 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 9 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 14 |
| 2015 | £137,500 | £194,288 | 9 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 4 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 13 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 11 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 8 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 3 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 14 |
| 2008 | £151,500 | £248,340 | 10 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 8 |
| 2006 | £92,000 | £159,700 | 13 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 11 |
| 2004 | £87,500 | £158,917 | 23 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 9 |
| 2002 | £64,500 | £121,356 | 11 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 19 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 11 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 13 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 11 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 17 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 8 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 3 |
In cash terms the typical LA19 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £190,500 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 83%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 44% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA19 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 2007 (+104.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−41.0%). 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, 43% of the typed total.
Median by property type, LA19
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 | £325,000 (2025) | – | 80 |
| Semi-detached | £105,000 (2022) | – | 27 |
| Terraced | £140,000 (2025) | – | 81 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +28.0% | +25.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +9.9% | +4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 18 sales completed in LA19. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9 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.
What tenants pay around LA19
LA19 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £496 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,071 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £190,500 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
How LA19 trades
This is a thin market: 18 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.
Asked and answered: LA19 (Waberthwaite)
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Will LA19 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 60% over five years in cash and up 27% 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.
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
LA19 ranks 1 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.
LA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LA19, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA19 5 | £190,500 | 1 |
How LA19 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 (this report) | £190,500 | +60% |
| LA1 | £182,800 | +13% |
| LA4 | £181,500 | +13% |
| LA15 | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Selling a home in LA19? 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 LA19, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA19's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA19 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 LA19.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA19. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA19 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.