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Torrisholme market report LA4, Morecambe
The standing LA4 (Torrisholme) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 16,302 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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 165 registered 2026 sales put the LA4 (Morecambe) median at £185,000, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £195,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 16,302 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 £185,000, taken from 165 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £195,300, 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 35% 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 165 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 400 |
| 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 £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 103%: 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 13% 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 £130,000 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 | 16 | 1,409 |
| Semi-detached | £193,000 | 84 | 7,830 |
| Terraced | £161,000 | 41 | 4,366 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 24 | 2,697 |
What LA4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.3% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 317 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 351 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 £185,000 median sold price, £807 a month is £9,684 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
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 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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: 6 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% above the LA4 median sold price.
LA4 registered 317 sales in the last twelve months; the 6 homes listed now would take about a week to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
0% 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.
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.
When homes in LA4 change hands
Across the 2,133 sales completed in LA4 from 2021 to 2025, September was the busiest month for completions (9.9% of the total) and January the quietest (6.3%). With so little between the busiest and quietest months, LA4 sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 135 | 6.3% |
| February | 169 | 7.9% |
| March | 195 | 9.1% |
| April | 141 | 6.6% |
| May | 150 | 7.0% |
| June | 185 | 8.7% |
| July | 168 | 7.9% |
| August | 199 | 9.3% |
| September | 211 | 9.9% |
| October | 202 | 9.5% |
| November | 199 | 9.3% |
| December | 179 | 8.4% |
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 | £250,000 | £290,995 (+16%) | £370,000 (+27%) | £485,000 (+31%) | £625,000 (+29%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £195,000 (+11%) | £225,000 (+15%) | £295,000 (+31%) | £370,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £134,000 | £137,000 (+2%) | £159,950 (+17%) | £215,000 (+34%) | £266,250 (+24%) |
| Flat | £105,000 | £140,000 (+33%) | £200,000 (+43%) | £258,000 (+29%) | £364,000 (+41%) |
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 6 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.
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% |
| LA8 | £370,000 | +9% |
| LA23 | £355,000 | +8% |
| LA21 | £320,000 | -9% |
| LA11 | £297,500 | +6% |
| LA10 | £295,000 | +16% |
| LA7 | £277,500 | +5% |
| LA2 | £275,000 | +6% |
| LA5 | £275,000 | +15% |
| LA16 | £270,200 | +47% |
| LA6 | £270,000 | -11% |
| LA9 | £259,000 | +13% |
| LA20 | £257,500 | -14% |
| LA12 | £255,000 | +10% |
| LA17 | £220,000 | -15% |
| LA3 | £200,000 | +22% |
| LA13 | £195,000 | +2% |
| LA4 (this report) | £185,000 | +16% |
| LA1 | £182,000 | +12% |
| LA15 | £160,000 | +17% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA19 | £135,000 | +14% |
| LA18 | £110,000 | +0% |
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.
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.