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Torrisholme market report LA4, Morecambe
The LA4 (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: 16,271 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA4 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 138 registered 2026 sales put the LA4 (Morecambe) median at £181,500, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £192,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 16,271 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LA4 is the postcode district covering Morecambe, Torrisholme in Morecambe. 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 LA4 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 LA4
The 2026 median for LA4 is £181,500, taken from 138 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £192,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in LA4
The last five years of sales put LA4 at roughly £2,250 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LA4 sits 36% below the national market.
LA4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £181,500 | £181,500 | 138 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 396 |
| 2024 | £178,000 | £189,251 | 348 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 387 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 457 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 541 |
| 2020 | £152,100 | £197,353 | 344 |
| 2019 | £137,500 | £180,230 | 452 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 474 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 440 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 445 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 480 |
| 2014 | £122,500 | £173,788 | 486 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 391 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 355 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 406 |
| 2010 | £117,000 | £183,486 | 361 |
| 2009 | £116,000 | £186,471 | 384 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 367 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 702 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 801 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 514 |
| 2004 | £91,000 | £165,274 | 782 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 814 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 905 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 769 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 688 |
| 1999 | £43,500 | £86,693 | 523 |
| 1998 | £42,500 | £85,789 | 557 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 598 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 516 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 450 |
In cash terms the typical LA4 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £181,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 99%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA4 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 (+30.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.0%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £280,000 against £129,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, LA4
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 | £280,000 | 15 | 1,407 |
| Semi-detached | £187,800 | 68 | 7,812 |
| Terraced | £161,000 | 35 | 4,360 |
| Flats | £129,000 | 20 | 2,692 |
What LA4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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
How many homes change hands
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 324 LA4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 747 sales a year before the financial crisis and 345 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 homes rent for around LA4
LA4 falls under Lancaster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £807 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £590 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,203, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Lancaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £181,500 median sold price, £807 a month is £9,684 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
Reading the LA4 market
Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, LA4 ranks 19 by median price: towards the affordable end.
LA4 (Torrisholme): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LA4 (Torrisholme)?
Is LA4 (Torrisholme) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA4 (Torrisholme)?
Will LA4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in LA4 right now
Everything above is what homes in LA4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 65 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the LA4 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.
- Ribblesdale Court, Euston Road, Morec...
- Poulton Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4
- Beach Street, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LA4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in LA: the cost
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
LA4 ranks 8 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.
Winners and losers across the LA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LA4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA4 4 | £169,000 | 45 |
| LA4 5 | £175,000 | 41 |
| LA4 6 | £220,000 | 52 |
How LA4 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 | £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 (this report) | £181,500 | +13% |
| LA15 | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Before you sell in LA4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LA4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.