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Burneside market report LA9 5, Kendal
The standing LA9 5 (Burneside) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,385 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LA9 5 (Kendal) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for LA9 5 (Kendal) is £310,000, from 56 registered sales, up 35% on five years earlier; the mean is £326,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,385 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 LA9 5 is a single group of streets within LA9 (Kendal), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LA9 5 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 buyers actually paid in LA9 5
In the LA9 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £310,000, from 56 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £326,200, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LA9 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LA9 5 sales average about £3,290 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LA9 5 runs 9% above it.
The price of a typical LA9 5 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £256,500 | £262,634 | 134 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 171 |
| 2023 | £283,000 | £310,948 | 185 |
| 2022 | £279,000 | £327,159 | 156 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 197 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 151 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 129 |
| 2018 | £199,000 | £265,271 | 160 |
| 2017 | £197,000 | £268,688 | 147 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 159 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 143 |
| 2014 | £167,000 | £236,919 | 149 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 133 |
| 2012 | £156,200 | £229,907 | 108 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 105 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 114 |
| 2009 | £153,000 | £245,949 | 118 |
| 2008 | £166,000 | £272,109 | 105 |
| 2007 | £153,000 | £259,531 | 171 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 222 |
| 2005 | £144,500 | £257,152 | 156 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 184 |
| 2003 | £111,000 | £204,489 | 224 |
| 2002 | £87,500 | £164,630 | 241 |
| 2001 | £72,500 | £139,378 | 242 |
| 2000 | £63,200 | £124,030 | 222 |
| 1999 | £59,700 | £118,979 | 252 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 221 |
| 1997 | £57,600 | £118,126 | 224 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 231 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 175 |
In cash terms the typical LA9 5 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 191%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 5% 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 LA9 5 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 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−13.1%). 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) | +20.9% | +18.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.2% | +1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in LA9 5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
LA9 5 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 208 sales a year before the financial crisis and 140 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around LA9 5
The local authority for LA9 5 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.
£805 a month is £9,660 a year, which against the £310,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. 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 LA9 5 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LA9 5 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. Against the LA9 district median, LA9 5 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
LA9 5 (Burneside): the questions that come up
Is LA9 5 (Burneside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LA9 5 (Burneside)?
Are property prices falling in LA9 5 (Burneside)?
What happens to LA9 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 6% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in LA9 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 204 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LA9 district, not just LA9 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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
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%) | — | — |
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.
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 4 | £164,000 | 34 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in LA9 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LA9 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LA9 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LA9 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LA9 5 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.