Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,771 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA7 (Milnthorpe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
LA7 is the postcode district covering Milnthorpe, Beetham, Storth in Milnthorpe. 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 LA7 sits
Click the map to open LA7 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£262,500median sold price, 2026
-3%five-year change (cash)
73sales in the last 12 months
3.7%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in LA7 sells for
The 2026 median in LA7 is £262,500, from 28 registered sales; the mean, £276,200, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so LA7 trades 4% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LA7 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£262,500
£262,500
28
2025
£335,000
£335,000
57
2024
£315,000
£327,088
82
2023
£307,500
£329,977
74
2022
£335,000
£383,651
92
2021
£270,000
£333,871
111
2020
£282,500
£357,989
102
2019
£270,000
£345,640
87
2018
£240,000
£312,453
111
2017
£250,000
£333,012
121
2016
£215,000
£293,762
80
2015
£228,800
£315,744
80
2014
£205,000
£284,036
73
2013
£230,000
£323,218
61
2012
£212,500
£305,469
50
2011
£200,000
£294,872
49
2010
£228,500
£349,978
62
2009
£207,000
£324,983
66
2008
£295,500
£473,074
38
2007
£230,000
£381,032
95
2006
£233,500
£395,860
95
2005
£241,200
£419,214
81
2004
£174,000
£308,638
95
2003
£158,000
£284,276
117
2002
£127,500
£234,288
108
2001
£103,800
£194,890
138
2000
£85,800
£164,450
144
1999
£70,200
£136,638
124
1998
£70,000
£138,000
99
1997
£74,500
£149,216
100
1996
£65,000
£133,881
81
1995
£60,500
£128,446
70
In cash terms the typical LA7 home went from £60,500 in 1995 to £262,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 104%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 45% 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 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)
−21.6%
−21.6%
5 years (since 2021)
−0.6%
−4.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.0%
−1.1%
20 years (since 2006)
+0.6%
−2.0%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LA7 recorded 73 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 67 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 homes rent for 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 £262,500 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Will LA7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
LA7 ranks 19 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LA7, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.