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Torrisholme market report LA4 5, Morecambe
The LA4 5 (Torrisholme) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,120 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA4 5 (Morecambe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical LA4 5 (Morecambe) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 41 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier), with the mean at £176,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,120 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like LA4 5 is a single group of streets within LA4 (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 LA4 5 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 LA4 5
The 2026 median for LA4 5 is £175,000, taken from 41 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £176,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
LA4 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in LA4 5 costs about £1,860 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LA4 5 runs 39% below it.
The price of a typical LA4 5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 116 |
| 2024 | £142,500 | £151,507 | 95 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 126 |
| 2022 | £142,500 | £167,098 | 131 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 170 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 104 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 141 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 133 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 132 |
| 2016 | £102,500 | £143,399 | 124 |
| 2015 | £100,200 | £141,583 | 150 |
| 2014 | £83,500 | £118,459 | 134 |
| 2013 | £92,800 | £133,530 | 108 |
| 2012 | £97,500 | £143,508 | 97 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 112 |
| 2010 | £102,100 | £160,119 | 110 |
| 2009 | £107,500 | £172,807 | 120 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 138 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 253 |
| 2006 | £97,000 | £168,380 | 259 |
| 2005 | £87,000 | £154,825 | 187 |
| 2004 | £79,000 | £143,479 | 291 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 313 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 330 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 222 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 190 |
| 1999 | £34,200 | £68,159 | 166 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 129 |
| 1997 | £35,200 | £72,188 | 184 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 152 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical LA4 5 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 96%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA4 5 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 (+46.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−14.6%). 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) | +16.7% | +13.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in LA4 5
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, 41 sales completed in LA4 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 256 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market LA4 5 is
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA4 5 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.
What homes rent for around LA4 5
For renting purposes LA4 5 sits in Lancaster. The ONS average private rent there is £807 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £590 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,203 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lancaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £807 a month (£9,684 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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 people ask about LA4 5 (Torrisholme)
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Will LA4 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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 LA4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA4 district, not just LA4 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every LA4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: LA prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LA area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, LA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LA4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LA4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA4 4 | £169,000 | 45 |
| LA4 6 | £220,000 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full LA4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LA4 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA4 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA4 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA4 5 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 LA4 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA4 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA4 5 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.
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.