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Arkholme market report LA6 2, Carnforth
The standing LA6 2 (Arkholme) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,567 registered sales in LA6 2 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for LA6 2 (Carnforth) is £250,000, from 17 registered sales, down 37% on five years earlier; the mean is £321,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,620 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,567 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LA6 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LA6 (Carnforth). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LA6 2 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 LA6 2
17 sales were registered in LA6 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £250,000. The mean works out at £321,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in LA6 2
By floor space, homes in LA6 2 have sold for about £3,620 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LA6 2 runs 12% below it.
LA6 2'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 55 |
| 2024 | £397,500 | £422,624 | 76 |
| 2023 | £470,000 | £516,415 | 78 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 97 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 140 |
| 2020 | £371,700 | £482,288 | 87 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 104 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 86 |
| 2017 | £303,200 | £413,534 | 60 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 73 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 75 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 93 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 64 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 62 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 51 |
| 2010 | £249,000 | £390,496 | 49 |
| 2009 | £268,500 | £431,616 | 70 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 75 |
| 2007 | £282,500 | £479,199 | 88 |
| 2006 | £292,500 | £507,743 | 76 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 89 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 78 |
| 2003 | £188,800 | £347,815 | 100 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 131 |
| 2001 | £123,800 | £237,999 | 102 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 102 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 95 |
| 1998 | £80,200 | £161,889 | 106 |
| 1997 | £82,500 | £169,191 | 77 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 65 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 46 |
In cash terms the typical LA6 2 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 60%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 52% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA6 2 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 2004 (+32.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−31.5%). 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) | −31.5% | −33.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.7% | −12.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.8% | −3.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LA6 2
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, 17 sales completed in LA6 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 96 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
How LA6 2 trades
This is a thin market: 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around LA6 2
For renting purposes LA6 2 sits in Westmorland and Furness. The ONS average private rent there is £805 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £595 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,305, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 LA6 2 (Arkholme)
Are property prices falling in LA6 2 (Arkholme)?
Is LA6 2 (Arkholme) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA6 2 (Arkholme)?
Will LA6 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 37% over five years in cash but down 50% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in LA6 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 41 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA6 district, not just LA6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 LA6 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LA area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 LA6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LA6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA6 1 | £259,500 | 24 |
| LA6 3 | £251,800 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full LA6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in LA6 2? 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 LA6 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA6 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA6 2 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 LA6 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA6 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA6 2 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.
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.