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Brigsteer market report LA8, Kendal
The standing LA8 (Brigsteer) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,401 registered sales in LA8 (Kendal) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the LA8 (Kendal) median at £350,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £401,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,530 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,401 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
LA8 is the postcode district covering Brigsteer, Grayrigg, Levens in Kendal. 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 LA8 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 LA8 homes really sell for
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LA8 home went for £350,000. The mean is £401,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LA8
Per square metre, LA8 homes have averaged around £3,530 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LA8 sits 23% above the national market.
The price of a typical LA8 home, 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £345,000 | £353,250 | 117 |
| 2024 | £379,000 | £402,955 | 118 |
| 2023 | £413,200 | £454,006 | 133 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 154 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 191 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 113 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 134 |
| 2018 | £289,300 | £385,642 | 162 |
| 2017 | £319,000 | £435,084 | 148 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 111 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 119 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 123 |
| 2013 | £277,500 | £399,295 | 106 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 113 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 99 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 87 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 97 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 87 |
| 2007 | £272,500 | £462,236 | 157 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 154 |
| 2005 | £273,500 | £486,720 | 123 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 149 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 163 |
| 2002 | £148,500 | £279,401 | 204 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 159 |
| 2000 | £121,000 | £237,463 | 169 |
| 1999 | £104,000 | £207,267 | 207 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 200 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 191 |
| 1996 | £78,200 | £164,920 | 168 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical LA8 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LA8 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 2003 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). 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) | +1.4% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £503,500 against £225,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, LA8
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 | £425,000 | 19 | 1,998 |
| Semi-detached | £345,000 | 8 | 1,039 |
| Terraced | £235,000 | 6 | 980 |
| Flats | £225,000 (2025) | – | 377 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 81 LA8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 160 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 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 LA8 market
This is a thin market: 81 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. Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, LA8 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around LA8
The local authority for LA8 is Westmorland and Furness, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £595 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,305 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Westmorland and Furness
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 2.8% 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.
Asked and answered: LA8 (Brigsteer)
Is LA8 (Brigsteer) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA8 (Brigsteer)?
Are property prices falling in LA8 (Brigsteer)?
Where do LA8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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 LA8 right now
Everything above is what homes in LA8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 64 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% above the LA8 median sold price.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hillcrest Seed Howe, Staveley, Kendal, Kendal
- Hutton Manor Cottage, Old Hutton, Kendal, Kendal
- Gatebeck Cottages, Gatebeck, Kendal
"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 LA8 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LA
Real sold prices by size across the LA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
LA8 ranks 17 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.
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.
Inside LA8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LA8 0 | £332,500 | 14 |
| LA8 8 | £360,000 | 10 |
| LA8 9 | £370,500 | 12 |
How LA8 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Selling a home in LA8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LA8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA8 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 LA8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LA8 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.
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.