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Abbeystead market report LA2 6, Lancaster
The standing LA2 6 (Abbeystead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,057 registered sales in LA2 6 (Lancaster) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical LA2 6 (Lancaster) home changed hands for £325,000 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £334,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,890 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,057 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LA2 6 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 6 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 LA2 6
32 sales were registered in LA2 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £325,000. The mean works out at £334,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in LA2 6
The last five years of sales put LA2 6 at roughly £2,890 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LA2 6 14% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LA2 6 home, 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £327,500 | £335,332 | 83 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 105 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 87 |
| 2022 | £302,500 | £354,716 | 92 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 153 |
| 2020 | £288,500 | £374,335 | 144 |
| 2019 | £237,000 | £310,650 | 113 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 83 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 109 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 117 |
| 2015 | £207,000 | £292,491 | 103 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 100 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 101 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 89 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 57 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 81 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 52 |
| 2008 | £192,500 | £315,548 | 57 |
| 2007 | £209,800 | £355,879 | 96 |
| 2006 | £196,000 | £340,231 | 111 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 86 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 76 |
| 2003 | £144,500 | £266,204 | 110 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 112 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 136 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 91 |
| 1999 | £74,900 | £149,272 | 92 |
| 1998 | £74,500 | £150,384 | 106 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 116 |
| 1996 | £62,500 | £131,810 | 94 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical LA2 6 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 149%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LA2 6 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 2000 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−14.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LA2 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in LA2 6
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.
The register shows 32 LA2 6 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 102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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.
Rents around LA2 6
For renting purposes LA2 6 sits in Lancaster. The ONS average private rent there is £807 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £325,000 median purchase price, a rent of £807 a month (£9,684 a year) works out at a 3.0% 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.
What kind of market LA2 6 is
This is a thin market: 32 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. Against the LA2 district median, LA2 6 sits 20% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
LA2 6 (Abbeystead): the questions that come up
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Where do LA2 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What is for sale in LA2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA2 district, not just LA2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LA2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in LA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LA area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
LA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 0 | £235,000 | 24 |
| 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.
Before you sell in LA2 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA2 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA2 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA2 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LA2 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LA2 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA2 6 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.