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Beetham market report LA7, Milnthorpe
The LA7 (Beetham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,668 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA7 (Milnthorpe) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for LA7 (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.
The postcode district LA7 covering Milnthorpe, Beetham, Storth sits in Milnthorpe. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LA7 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 LA7 homes really sell for
The LA7 median stands at £278,800 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £313,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LA7
A square metre of LA7 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 LA7 2% below the country at large.
LA7'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.
See this chart as a table
| 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 home went from £60,500 in 1995 to £278,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 112%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 42% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA7 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £450,000 against £149,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, LA7
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 | £390,000 | 15 | 1,091 |
| Semi-detached | £262,500 | 14 | 809 |
| Terraced | £207,000 | 9 | 575 |
| Flats | £149,000 (2025) | – | 160 |
What LA7 has returned, per year
| 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% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in LA7
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
LA7 recorded 63 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.
The shape of the LA7 market
Only 63 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA7 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.
Rents around LA7
LA7 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.
Set against the £278,800 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: LA7 (Beetham)
How much did a house sell for in LA7 (Beetham)?
Are property prices falling in LA7 (Beetham)?
Is LA7 (Beetham) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LA7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in LA7 right now
Everything above is what homes in LA7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 20 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 51% above the LA7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Kirkhead, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
- Hale Head House, Hale, Milnthorpe, Milnthorpe
- Ryleyfield Road, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
"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 LA7 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
LA7 ranks 15 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.
Five-year change in the median, LA area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LA7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA7 7 | £278,800 | 40 |
How LA7 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 (this report) | £278,800 | +5% |
| LA16 | £275,500 | +50% |
| LA5 | £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% |
Before you sell in LA7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in LA7, open the average prices map and zoom from the LA7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded LA7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working LA7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LA7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.