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Abbeystead market report LA2 0, Lancaster
The LA2 0 (Abbeystead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,237 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA2 0 (Lancaster) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LA2 0 (Lancaster) is £235,000, from 24 registered sales, up 45% on five years earlier; the mean is £268,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,237 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LA2 0 is one sector of LA2 (Lancaster): 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 LA2 0 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.
LA2 0 sold prices: where the market stands
24 sales were registered in LA2 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £235,000. The mean works out at £268,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
LA2 0 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LA2 0 sales average about £2,820 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 LA2 0 18% below the country at large.
A typical LA2 0 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £237,400 | £243,077 | 64 |
| 2024 | £218,800 | £232,629 | 66 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 47 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 108 |
| 2021 | £162,000 | £205,113 | 161 |
| 2020 | £246,500 | £319,839 | 66 |
| 2019 | £172,000 | £225,451 | 61 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 63 |
| 2017 | £211,000 | £287,783 | 87 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 92 |
| 2015 | £152,000 | £214,776 | 50 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 55 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 49 |
| 2012 | £163,500 | £240,652 | 40 |
| 2011 | £152,500 | £230,216 | 55 |
| 2010 | £168,000 | £263,467 | 53 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 43 |
| 2008 | £154,500 | £253,258 | 34 |
| 2007 | £172,200 | £292,099 | 74 |
| 2006 | £152,200 | £264,200 | 72 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 71 |
| 2004 | £137,500 | £249,727 | 84 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 107 |
| 2002 | £84,000 | £158,045 | 120 |
| 2001 | £76,500 | £147,067 | 88 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 91 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 69 |
| 1998 | £52,200 | £105,369 | 72 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 81 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 44 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 46 |
In cash terms the typical LA2 0 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 124%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA2 0 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 2020 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−34.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LA2 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.0% | −3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.7% | +2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in LA2 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 LA2 0 market
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the LA2 district median, LA2 0 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around LA2 0
The local authority for LA2 0 is Lancaster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £807 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £590 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,203, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Lancaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £235,000 median sold price, £807 a month is £9,684 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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 LA2 0 (Abbeystead)
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What happens to LA2 0 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 45% over five years in cash and up 15% 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 LA2 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 48 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA2 district, not just LA2 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LA2 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LA area, 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. 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.
Other sectors in LA2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LA2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA2 6 | £325,000 | 32 |
| LA2 7 | £235,000 | 24 |
| LA2 8 | £370,000 | 13 |
| LA2 9 | £268,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full LA2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LA2 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA2 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA2 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA2 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working LA2 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA2 0.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LA2 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA2 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.