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Arnside market report LA5, Carnforth
The LA5 (Arnside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,264 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA5 (Carnforth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in LA5 (Carnforth) sold for £275,000 in 2026, the median of 83 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £287,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 10,264 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LA5 is the postcode district covering Carnforth, Arnside, Silverdale in Carnforth. 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 LA5 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 LA5
Take the 83 registered 2026 sales in LA5 and the middle price, the median, is £275,000. The mean lands at £287,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
LA5 prices by floor area
A square metre of LA5 home has cost about £2,880 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA5 4% below the country at large.
LA5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 83 |
| 2025 | £264,500 | £270,825 | 298 |
| 2024 | £261,500 | £278,028 | 286 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 233 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 301 |
| 2021 | £239,500 | £303,238 | 412 |
| 2020 | £210,000 | £272,479 | 329 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 363 |
| 2018 | £192,700 | £256,873 | 304 |
| 2017 | £203,000 | £276,872 | 310 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 315 |
| 2015 | £192,000 | £271,296 | 287 |
| 2014 | £182,200 | £258,483 | 300 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 250 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 227 |
| 2011 | £163,600 | £246,973 | 216 |
| 2010 | £192,200 | £301,419 | 212 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 236 |
| 2008 | £182,500 | £299,156 | 215 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 377 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 431 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 294 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 409 |
| 2003 | £123,500 | £227,517 | 484 |
| 2002 | £94,000 | £176,860 | 538 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 418 |
| 2000 | £67,800 | £133,058 | 390 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 385 |
| 1998 | £62,200 | £125,555 | 382 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 363 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 327 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 289 |
In cash terms the typical LA5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 111%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA5 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 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−14.9%). 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) | +4.0% | +1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, LA5
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 | £365,000 | 27 | 3,370 |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | 27 | 3,339 |
| Terraced | £176,500 | 24 | 2,805 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 5 | 750 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 211 sales completed in LA5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 418 sales a year before the financial crisis and 240 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 tenants pay around LA5
LA5 falls under Lancaster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £807 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£807 a month is £9,684 a year, which against the £275,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
Asked and answered: LA5 (Arnside)
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What happens to LA5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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 LA5 now
Everything above is what homes in LA5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 17 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the LA5 median sold price.
7% 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.
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LA
Real sold prices by size across the LA area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LA5 ranks 7 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.
LA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside LA5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA5 0 | £335,000 | 23 |
| LA5 8 | £270,000 | 21 |
| LA5 9 | £180,000 | 39 |
How LA5 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 (this report) | £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 | £181,500 | +13% |
| LA15 | £168,000 | +23% |
| LA17 | £165,000 | -37% |
| LA14 | £147,400 | +17% |
| LA18 | £105,000 | -5% |
Selling in LA5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.