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Burneside market report LA9 4, Kendal
The LA9 4 (Burneside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,893 HM Land Registry entries for LA9 4 (Kendal), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LA9 4 (Kendal) came in at £164,000, out of 34 registered, down 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £187,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,893 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
LA9 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LA9 (Kendal). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LA9 4 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 LA9 4 homes really sell for
In the LA9 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £164,000, from 34 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £187,300, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LA9 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LA9 4 sales average about £2,940 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 LA9 4 42% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LA9 4 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £164,000 | £164,000 | 34 |
| 2025 | £206,200 | £211,131 | 112 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 83 |
| 2023 | £196,200 | £215,576 | 108 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 125 |
| 2021 | £178,500 | £226,004 | 140 |
| 2020 | £172,500 | £223,822 | 91 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 109 |
| 2018 | £171,500 | £228,613 | 107 |
| 2017 | £156,000 | £212,768 | 131 |
| 2016 | £173,300 | £242,448 | 112 |
| 2015 | £183,800 | £259,709 | 128 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 97 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 93 |
| 2012 | £134,000 | £197,231 | 92 |
| 2011 | £149,000 | £224,933 | 82 |
| 2010 | £132,500 | £207,794 | 77 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 89 |
| 2008 | £137,800 | £225,883 | 90 |
| 2007 | £156,000 | £264,619 | 168 |
| 2006 | £139,000 | £241,286 | 170 |
| 2005 | £143,500 | £255,372 | 130 |
| 2004 | £127,500 | £231,565 | 161 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 172 |
| 2002 | £87,800 | £165,195 | 226 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 145 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 169 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 130 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 111 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 165 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 124 |
| 1995 | £47,400 | £103,040 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical LA9 4 home went from £47,400 in 1995 to £164,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 59%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 38% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LA9 4 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 2004 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.5% | −22.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −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.
Sales activity in LA9 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in LA9 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 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.
How LA9 4 trades
This is a thin market: 34 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. Within LA9, this sector trades 37% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of LA9 4
LA9 4 falls under Westmorland and Furness, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £164,000 median purchase price, a rent of £805 a month (£9,660 a year) works out at a 5.9% 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.
LA9 4 (Burneside): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LA9 4 (Burneside)?
Is LA9 4 (Burneside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA9 4 (Burneside)?
Where do LA9 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in LA9 now
The live side of the market holds 204 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA9 district, not just LA9 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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.
"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 LA9 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LA9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LA9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LA9 5 | £310,000 | 56 |
| LA9 6 | £286,000 | 39 |
| LA9 7 | £272,500 | 76 |
Zoom out to the full LA9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LA9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LA9 4? 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 LA9 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LA9 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LA9 4 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 LA9 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LA9 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual LA9 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.