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Chapel Stile market report LA22, Ambleside
The LA22 (Chapel Stile) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,498 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA22 (Ambleside) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LA22 (Ambleside) is £430,000, from 19 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £503,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,500 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,498 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LA22 is a postcode district covering Ambleside, Chapel Stile, Elterwater in Ambleside. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where LA22 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 a home in LA22 sells for
The LA22 median stands at £430,000 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £503,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
LA22 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LA22 costs about £5,500 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LA22 sits 51% above the national market.
LA22's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £473,800 | £485,130 | 62 |
| 2024 | £479,000 | £509,275 | 68 |
| 2023 | £457,000 | £502,131 | 66 |
| 2022 | £500,600 | £587,011 | 98 |
| 2021 | £446,200 | £564,947 | 100 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 77 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 92 |
| 2018 | £352,500 | £469,889 | 87 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 99 |
| 2016 | £292,500 | £409,210 | 115 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 133 |
| 2014 | £335,000 | £475,256 | 118 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 121 |
| 2012 | £325,000 | £478,359 | 81 |
| 2011 | £302,000 | £455,904 | 84 |
| 2010 | £320,500 | £502,627 | 124 |
| 2009 | £292,400 | £470,035 | 94 |
| 2008 | £289,500 | £474,552 | 90 |
| 2007 | £313,900 | £532,462 | 142 |
| 2006 | £295,000 | £512,082 | 140 |
| 2005 | £266,500 | £474,263 | 123 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 146 |
| 2003 | £220,000 | £405,293 | 151 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 158 |
| 2001 | £148,000 | £284,522 | 126 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 138 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 138 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 154 |
| 1997 | £97,500 | £199,953 | 143 |
| 1996 | £79,500 | £167,662 | 136 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical LA22 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 154%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA22 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−14.0%). 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) | −9.2% | −11.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £679,500 against £327,500 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, LA22
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 | £765,000 | 6 | 1,065 |
| Semi-detached | £555,000 (2025) | – | 533 |
| Terraced | £375,000 | 5 | 1,023 |
| Flats | £327,500 (2025) | – | 869 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LA22 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
What tenants pay around LA22
The local authority for LA22 is Westmorland and Furness, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £595 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,305, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £430,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 2.2% 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.
The shape of the LA22 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA22 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. LA22 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Common questions on LA22 (Chapel Stile)
Are property prices falling in LA22 (Chapel Stile)?
Is LA22 (Chapel Stile) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA22 (Chapel Stile)?
Will LA22 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in LA22 now
Everything above is what homes in LA22 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 7 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the LA22 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every LA22 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
Real sold prices by size across the LA area, straight 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
LA22 ranks 19 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 LA22, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA22 0 | £700,000 | 9 |
| LA22 9 | £350,000 | 10 |
How LA22 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LA22 (this report) | £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 | £105,000 | -5% |
Thinking of selling in LA22? Get a rough value first
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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.