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Abbeystead market report LA2, Lancaster
The LA2 (Abbeystead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 10,559 registered sales in LA2 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LA2 (Lancaster) came in at £271,500, out of 116 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £303,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,559 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LA2 is the postcode district covering Lancaster, Abbeystead, Aldcliffe in Lancaster. 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 LA2 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 LA2 homes really sell for
In the LA2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £271,500, from 116 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £303,900, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LA2
By floor space, homes in LA2 have sold for about £2,880 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA2 5% below the country at large.
LA2'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 | £271,500 | £271,500 | 116 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 306 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 336 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 273 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 403 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 564 |
| 2020 | £262,500 | £340,599 | 398 |
| 2019 | £228,000 | £298,853 | 364 |
| 2018 | £223,000 | £297,263 | 311 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 359 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 349 |
| 2015 | £194,500 | £274,829 | 302 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 335 |
| 2013 | £199,900 | £287,636 | 269 |
| 2012 | £188,800 | £277,890 | 208 |
| 2011 | £172,500 | £260,409 | 216 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 245 |
| 2009 | £192,600 | £309,606 | 202 |
| 2008 | £183,400 | £300,631 | 202 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 331 |
| 2006 | £181,000 | £314,193 | 403 |
| 2005 | £179,000 | £318,548 | 337 |
| 2004 | £166,200 | £301,852 | 356 |
| 2003 | £136,200 | £250,913 | 416 |
| 2002 | £95,500 | £179,682 | 473 |
| 2001 | £88,400 | £169,944 | 434 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 411 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 343 |
| 1998 | £62,200 | £125,555 | 340 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 385 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 302 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 270 |
In cash terms the typical LA2 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £271,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 119%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA2 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 2003 (+42.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.9%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £416,500 against £152,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, LA2
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 | £416,500 | 38 | 3,835 |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | 37 | 3,382 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 31 | 2,772 |
| Flats | £152,500 | 10 | 570 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.5% | −11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LA2 recorded 262 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 395 sales a year before the financial crisis and 287 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around LA2
The local authority for LA2 is Lancaster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £807 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £590 a month here against £1,203 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lancaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £271,500 median sold price, £807 a month is £9,684 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
What people ask about LA2 (Abbeystead)
Is LA2 (Abbeystead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA2 (Abbeystead)?
Are property prices falling in LA2 (Abbeystead)?
What happens to LA2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in LA2 today
Everything above is what homes in LA2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the LA2 median sold price.
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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in LA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
LA2 ranks 16 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LA2, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA2 0 | £235,000 | 24 |
| LA2 6 | £325,000 | 32 |
| LA2 7 | £235,000 | 24 |
| LA2 8 | £370,000 | 13 |
| LA2 9 | £268,000 | 23 |
How LA2 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 (this report) | £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 | £105,000 | -5% |
Selling in LA2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LA2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working LA2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LA2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.