Local market reports › LA area › LA5 › LA5 8
Arnside market report LA5 8, Carnforth
The LA5 8 (Arnside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,433 registered sales in LA5 8 (Carnforth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LA5 8 (Carnforth) sold for £270,000 in 2026, the median of 21 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £291,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,433 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like LA5 8 is a single group of streets within LA5 (Carnforth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LA5 8 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.
LA5 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LA5 8 home went for £270,000. The mean is £291,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
LA5 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, LA5 8 homes have averaged around £2,940 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA5 8 5% below the country at large.
LA5 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 69 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 59 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 47 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 80 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 107 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 102 |
| 2019 | £212,500 | £278,537 | 66 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 75 |
| 2017 | £216,200 | £294,875 | 90 |
| 2016 | £212,500 | £297,290 | 82 |
| 2015 | £197,500 | £279,068 | 64 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 73 |
| 2013 | £184,200 | £265,045 | 58 |
| 2012 | £171,500 | £252,427 | 50 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 59 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 66 |
| 2009 | £179,000 | £287,744 | 56 |
| 2008 | £167,000 | £273,748 | 43 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 73 |
| 2006 | £172,800 | £299,959 | 100 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 57 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 83 |
| 2003 | £140,500 | £258,835 | 116 |
| 2002 | £96,500 | £181,564 | 122 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 109 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 89 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 85 |
| 1998 | £59,500 | £120,105 | 77 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 87 |
| 1996 | £53,200 | £112,196 | 95 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical LA5 8 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 128%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2010; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2010 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA5 8 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 (+45.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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, 21 sales completed in LA5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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 tenants pay around LA5 8
LA5 8 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.
£807 a month is £9,684 a year, which against the £270,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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 LA5 8 market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA5 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
LA5 8 (Arnside): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LA5 8 (Arnside)?
Is LA5 8 (Arnside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA5 8 (Arnside)?
What happens to LA5 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in LA5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA5 district, not just LA5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
7% 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.
"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 LA5 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LA area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LA5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of LA5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA5 0 | £335,000 | 23 |
| LA5 9 | £180,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full LA5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LA5 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA5 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA5 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA5 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LA5 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA5 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA5 8 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.
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.