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Beetham market report LA7 7, Milnthorpe
The standing LA7 7 (Beetham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,668 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LA7 7 (Milnthorpe) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for LA7 7 (Milnthorpe) is £278,800, from 40 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £313,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,200 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,668 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like LA7 7 is a single group of streets within LA7 (Milnthorpe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LA7 7 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 LA7 7
40 sales were registered in LA7 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £278,800. The mean works out at £313,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in LA7 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LA7 7 sales average about £3,200 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LA7 7 2% below the country at large.
A typical LA7 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £278,800 | £278,800 | 40 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 53 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 69 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 63 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 81 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 102 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 91 |
| 2019 | £269,000 | £352,595 | 75 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 97 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 105 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 71 |
| 2015 | £232,000 | £327,816 | 77 |
| 2014 | £207,000 | £293,666 | 72 |
| 2013 | £234,000 | £336,703 | 60 |
| 2012 | £212,500 | £312,773 | 50 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 49 |
| 2010 | £228,500 | £358,347 | 62 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 66 |
| 2008 | £295,500 | £484,387 | 38 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 95 |
| 2006 | £233,500 | £405,326 | 95 |
| 2005 | £241,200 | £429,239 | 81 |
| 2004 | £174,000 | £316,018 | 95 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 117 |
| 2002 | £127,500 | £239,890 | 108 |
| 2001 | £103,800 | £199,550 | 138 |
| 2000 | £85,800 | £168,383 | 144 |
| 1999 | £70,200 | £139,905 | 124 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 99 |
| 1997 | £74,500 | £152,784 | 100 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 81 |
| 1995 | £60,500 | £131,518 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical LA7 7 home went from £60,500 in 1995 to £278,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA7 7 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 2005 (+38.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−29.9%). 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) | −20.3% | −22.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
LA7 7 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 109 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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 tenants pay around LA7 7
The local authority for LA7 7 is Westmorland and Furness, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £595 a month here against £1,305 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£805 a month is £9,660 a year, which against the £278,800 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.
Reading the LA7 7 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA7 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Asked and answered: LA7 7 (Beetham)
Are property prices falling in LA7 7 (Beetham)?
Is LA7 7 (Beetham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA7 7 (Beetham)?
Will LA7 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 LA7 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 20 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA7 district, not just LA7 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Kirkhead, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
- Hale Head House, Hale, Milnthorpe, Milnthorpe
- Ryleyfield Road, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
"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 LA7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full LA7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in LA7 7? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA7 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA7 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA7 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working LA7 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA7 7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA7 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA7 7 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.