Ulverston house prices

Ulverston house prices are built from 11,788 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £149,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.5%.

HM Land Registry11,788 sales1,806 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Ulverston 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 Ulverston is £275,000 in 2024; the lowest is £50,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £257,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +131.9% — about +2.75% 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: +43.1% in cash against +2.5% 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 Ulverston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ulverston 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. 3,245 certificates cover Ulverston, and their median floor area is 83 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. 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.

733 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11,055 freehold — 6.2% 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 £120,250 and the median freehold sale £150,500 — a gap of +25.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +36.2%. 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 688 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 £149,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.47% 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 LA12, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 24 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.

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.

11 state and independent schools have a LA12 postcode: 10 primary, 1 secondary. 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. Ulverston sits below that national figure — -4.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,808 per square metre, across 1,806 of the 11,788 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 £2,500 to £8,100,000. 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.

Ulverston 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 Ulverston

• Birchwood Drive171 sales
• Monument Way154 sales
• Soutergate147 sales
• Ulverston Road140 sales
• Steel Street139 sales
• Bigland Drive134 sales
• Trinkeld Avenue128 sales
• Fountain Street125 sales
• Main Street122 sales
• North Lonsdale Road111 sales
• Park Road111 sales
• Lightburn Avenue98 sales
• Lightburn Road97 sales
• Rusland Crescent95 sales
• Ford Park Crescent91 sales
• Casson Street90 sales
• Sands Road90 sales
• Oxford Street89 sales
• Sir John Barrow Way87 sales
• Sun Street87 sales
• Oakwood Drive84 sales
• The Gill81 sales
• Hest View Road77 sales
• Ainslie Street72 sales
• Hartley Street70 sales
• Kennedy Street70 sales
• Hart Street69 sales
• Neville Street69 sales
• Victoria Park69 sales
• Burlington Street68 sales
• Mountbarrow Road66 sales
• Cartmel Drive65 sales
• Sunderland Terrace64 sales
• Springfield Road62 sales
• Daltongate60 sales
• Devonshire Road60 sales
• Market Street60 sales
• Oubas Hill58 sales
• Cavendish Street57 sales
• Urswick Road56 sales
• Priory Road54 sales
• Dale Street53 sales
• Kennedy Place53 sales
• Brow Edge Road52 sales
• Dorchester Crescent52 sales
• Birkett Drive51 sales
• Lime Tree Road51 sales
• Railway Terrace51 sales
• Cox Street50 sales
• Byron Street49 sales
• Rydal Road49 sales
• Stanley Street49 sales
• Stone Cross Gardens49 sales
• Westhills Drive48 sales
• Fox Street46 sales
• Ironworks Road46 sales
• South Green46 sales
• Union Close46 sales
• Garden Terrace45 sales
• Newton Street45 sales

Postcode districts covering Ulverston

• LA12£149,950 median

What is the average house price in Ulverston?

The median price paid in Ulverston across every sale on the register is £149,950. 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 Ulverston?

11,788 sales are on record for Ulverston, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Ulverston house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +43.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Ulverston house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £275,000, set in 2024. 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 Ulverston?

£1,808 per square metre, from the 1,806 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 23 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, “Ulverston 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.