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Bowness-on-Windermere market report LA23, Windermere
The standing LA23 (Bowness-on-Windermere) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,104 HM Land Registry entries for LA23 (Windermere), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 45 registered 2026 sales put the LA23 (Windermere) median at £365,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £398,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,320 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,104 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LA23 is a postcode district covering Windermere, Bowness-on-Windermere, Troutbeck in Windermere. 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 LA23 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 buyers actually paid in LA23
Take the 45 registered 2026 sales in LA23 and the middle price, the median, is £365,000. The mean lands at £398,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LA23
Per square metre, LA23 homes have averaged around £4,320 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA23 trades 28% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LA23 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £357,300 | £365,844 | 119 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 109 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 110 |
| 2022 | £411,100 | £482,062 | 164 |
| 2021 | £327,500 | £414,657 | 214 |
| 2020 | £352,500 | £457,376 | 162 |
| 2019 | £288,300 | £377,892 | 166 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 159 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 203 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 181 |
| 2015 | £241,200 | £340,816 | 156 |
| 2014 | £264,200 | £374,814 | 170 |
| 2013 | £241,500 | £347,494 | 134 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 117 |
| 2011 | £228,000 | £344,192 | 125 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 116 |
| 2009 | £260,000 | £417,952 | 139 |
| 2008 | £265,500 | £435,211 | 162 |
| 2007 | £268,000 | £454,603 | 281 |
| 2006 | £231,500 | £401,854 | 280 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 222 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 253 |
| 2003 | £156,000 | £287,390 | 260 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 355 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 269 |
| 2000 | £102,800 | £201,745 | 276 |
| 1999 | £87,200 | £173,785 | 280 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 257 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 255 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 218 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical LA23 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 152%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA23 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 2022 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 28% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £645,000 against £205,800 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, LA23
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 | £645,000 | 16 | 1,656 |
| Semi-detached | £335,000 | 5 | 1,026 |
| Terraced | £310,000 | 10 | 1,715 |
| Flats | £205,800 | 14 | 1,707 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
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, 94 sales completed in LA23. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 275 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
What homes rent for around LA23
For renting purposes LA23 sits in Westmorland and Furness. The ONS average private rent there is £805 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £595 a month here against £1,305 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£805 a month is £9,660 a year, which against the £365,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the LA23 market
Only 94 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA23 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. LA23 sits 2 of 23 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: LA23 (Bowness-on-Windermere)
Are property prices falling in LA23 (Bowness-on-Windermere)?
Is LA23 (Bowness-on-Windermere) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA23 (Bowness-on-Windermere)?
Are LA23 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
LA23's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in LA23 sold for. The live side of the market holds 37 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the LA23 median sold price.
28% 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.
- Bowfell Langrigge Drive, Bowness-On-Windermere, Windermere, Windermere
- Brook House, 30, Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, Windermere
- Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, Windermere
"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 LA23 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.
What another bedroom costs in LA
Real sold prices by size across the LA area, straight 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
LA23 ranks 11 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 LA23, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA23 1 | £209,000 | 11 |
| LA23 2 | £375,000 | 17 |
| LA23 3 | £420,000 | 17 |
How LA23 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LA22 | £430,000 | -4% |
| LA23 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in LA23? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA23, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA23 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA23 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual LA23 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.
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.