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Heysham market report LA3 3, Morecambe
The standing LA3 3 (Heysham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,973 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA3 3 (Morecambe) 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: 38 registered 2026 sales put the LA3 3 (Morecambe) median at £219,200, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £237,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,470 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,973 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like LA3 3 is a single group of streets within LA3 (Morecambe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LA3 3 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 LA3 3
38 sales were registered in LA3 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £219,200. The mean works out at £237,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LA3 3
The last five years of sales put LA3 3 at roughly £2,470 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LA3 3 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
A typical LA3 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £219,200 | £219,200 | 38 |
| 2025 | £204,500 | £209,390 | 90 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 90 |
| 2023 | £192,000 | £210,961 | 87 |
| 2022 | £184,200 | £215,996 | 112 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 133 |
| 2020 | £156,000 | £202,413 | 76 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 105 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 117 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 131 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 98 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 98 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 92 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 89 |
| 2012 | £132,500 | £195,023 | 76 |
| 2011 | £117,000 | £176,625 | 73 |
| 2010 | £126,500 | £198,385 | 73 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 85 |
| 2008 | £137,000 | £224,572 | 67 |
| 2007 | £152,500 | £258,682 | 184 |
| 2006 | £132,000 | £229,135 | 185 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 127 |
| 2004 | £114,000 | £207,046 | 161 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 241 |
| 2002 | £71,500 | £134,527 | 216 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 230 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 207 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 162 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 142 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 139 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 119 |
| 1995 | £49,300 | £107,171 | 130 |
In cash terms the typical LA3 3 home went from £49,300 in 1995 to £219,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA3 3 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 2004 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.2%). 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) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in LA3 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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.
Reading the LA3 3 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA3 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around LA3 3
The local authority for LA3 3 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 £219,200 median sold price, £807 a month is £9,684 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 LA3 3 (Heysham)
How much did a house sell for in LA3 3 (Heysham)?
Are property prices falling in LA3 3 (Heysham)?
Is LA3 3 (Heysham) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LA3 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in LA3 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 73 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA3 district, not just LA3 3: 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.
- Brentlea Crescent, Heysham, Morecambe...
- Wesley Drive, Heysham, Morecambe, Lan...
- Brambling Drive, Heysham, Morecambe, ...
"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 LA3 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LA area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the LA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in LA3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LA3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA3 1 | £161,000 | 48 |
| LA3 2 | £215,500 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full LA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LA3 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA3 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA3 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA3 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LA3 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA3 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA3 3 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.