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Arkholme market report LA6, Carnforth
The standing LA6 (Arkholme) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 7,167 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA6 (Carnforth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LA6 (Carnforth) home changed hands for £250,000 in 2026 (median of 60 registered sales, down 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £335,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,200 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,167 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LA6 is the postcode district covering Arkholme, Burton-in-Kendal, Burton in Lonsdale 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 LA6 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 LA6
Take the 60 registered 2026 sales in LA6 and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £335,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
LA6 prices by floor area
A square metre of LA6 home has cost about £3,200 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 LA6 12% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LA6 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £308,000 | £315,365 | 195 |
| 2024 | £352,500 | £374,780 | 197 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 198 |
| 2022 | £299,000 | £350,612 | 263 |
| 2021 | £304,000 | £384,903 | 324 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 216 |
| 2019 | £272,500 | £357,182 | 276 |
| 2018 | £236,700 | £315,526 | 240 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 193 |
| 2016 | £226,200 | £316,456 | 200 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 230 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 245 |
| 2013 | £210,200 | £302,457 | 188 |
| 2012 | £212,500 | £312,773 | 163 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 144 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 160 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 176 |
| 2008 | £233,400 | £382,592 | 182 |
| 2007 | £227,000 | £385,055 | 259 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 277 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 221 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 258 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 284 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 324 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 289 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 277 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 283 |
| 1998 | £74,500 | £150,384 | 247 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 235 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 222 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical LA6 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 64%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 37% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA6 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 2002 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LA6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.8% | −20.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.8% | −8.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.4% | −2.3% |
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, 36% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £480,000 against £164,800 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, LA6
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 | £495,000 | 20 | 2,599 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 18 | 1,927 |
| Terraced | £217,500 | 18 | 2,100 |
| Flats | £164,800 (2025) | – | 536 |
How many homes change hands in LA6
The year-by-year sales count
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
LA6 recorded 135 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 274 sales a year before the financial crisis and 183 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.
The rental side of LA6
LA6 falls under Westmorland and Furness, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
The shape of the LA6 market
This is a thin market: 135 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.
Common questions on LA6 (Arkholme)
Is LA6 (Arkholme) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA6 (Arkholme)?
Are property prices falling in LA6 (Arkholme)?
Will LA6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% 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 you could buy in LA6 now
Everything above is what homes in LA6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the LA6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every LA6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in LA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LA area. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LA6 ranks 21 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LA6, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA6 1 | £259,500 | 24 |
| LA6 2 | £250,000 | 17 |
| LA6 3 | £251,800 | 19 |
How LA6 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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in LA6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA6, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LA6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA6 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.