Kendal house prices

Kendal house prices are built from 24,181 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +34.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.6%.

HM Land Registry24,181 sales4,188 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Kendal house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Kendal is £285,000 in 2023; the lowest is £53,750 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,750 to £265,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,350, so the real change over the whole record is +122.0% — about +2.61% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +34.5% in cash against -3.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Kendal values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kendal is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,991 certificates cover Kendal, and their median floor area is 76 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — 0.0%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

4,559 of the sales on record are leasehold and 19,622 freehold — 18.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £110,000 and the median freehold sale £170,000 — a gap of +54.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,164 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Westmorland and Furness, 32.5% of 122,630 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 11.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Westmorland and Furness at £808 a month as of Jun 2026 — £598 for a one-bedroom home and £933 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £155,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.26% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of LA9, 164 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 79 violent, 1 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

13 state and independent schools have a LA9 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kendal sits below that national figure — -1.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,154 per square metre, across 4,188 of the 24,181 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1,040 to £2,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Kendal sits in Westmorland and Furness, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Westmorland and Furness at 5.9 times median local earnings of £40,529 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Kendal

• Valley Drive425 sales
• Windermere Road379 sales
• Stramongate332 sales
• Highgate276 sales
• Burneside Road258 sales
• Sandes Avenue251 sales
• Lingmoor Rise221 sales
• Hayclose Road212 sales
• Bleaswood Road204 sales
• Moore Field Close186 sales
• Vicarage Drive171 sales
• Archers Meadow169 sales
• Websters Yard166 sales
• Helmside Road159 sales
• Greengate158 sales
• Kirkland152 sales
• Blackhall Road147 sales
• Hayclose Crescent147 sales
• Sandylands Road147 sales
• Bellingham Road144 sales
• Aynam Road138 sales
• Serpentine Road131 sales
• Hallgarth Circle129 sales
• Briarigg124 sales
• Main Street124 sales
• Webb View123 sales
• Shap Road121 sales
• Strickland Court118 sales
• Wasdale Close118 sales
• Rinkfield117 sales
• Milnthorpe Road116 sales
• Park Street115 sales
• Gillinggate113 sales
• Kirkstone Close113 sales
• Sparrowmire Lane113 sales
• Park Avenue111 sales
• Cherry Tree Crescent109 sales
• Rusland Park109 sales
• Union Street109 sales
• Laurel Gardens107 sales
• Sedbergh Road107 sales
• Greenside106 sales
• Natland Road101 sales
• Appleby Road99 sales
• Kent Court99 sales
• Castle Street97 sales
• Greenwood97 sales
• Heron Close96 sales
• High Fellside96 sales
• Whinlatter Drive96 sales
• Larch Grove94 sales
• Lowther Park94 sales
• Hawthorn Gardens92 sales
• Paddock Drive91 sales
• Beezon Road90 sales
• Esthwaite Green90 sales
• Kirkbie Green90 sales
• Linnet Grove90 sales
• Empsom Road88 sales
• Queen Katherine Street88 sales

Postcode districts covering Kendal

• LA9£145,000 median
• LA8£230,000 median

What is the average house price in Kendal?

The median price paid in Kendal across every sale on the register is £155,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Kendal?

24,181 sales are on record for Kendal, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Kendal house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +34.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Kendal house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Kendal?

£2,154 per square metre, from the 4,188 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Kendal house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.