L40 2 house prices are built from 564 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £213,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +46.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.9%.
Median price paid
£213,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+46.4%
Change in real terms
+4.9%
Median per m²
£3,932
HM Land Registry564 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How L40 2 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L40 2 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £79,250 | £175,972 |
| 2000s | 10 | £181,850 | £331,277 |
| 2010s | 10 | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 2020s | 7 | £380,000 | £388,261 |
The highest yearly median on record for L40 2 is £440,000 in 2025; the lowest is £58,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £58,500 to £410,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £129,898, so the real change over the whole record is +215.6% — about +3.78% 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: +46.4% in cash against +4.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Brookfield | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 4 Sycamore Close | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 88 New Street | 13 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £157,000 | £157,000 |
| DELFRYN Dark Lane | 16 Mar 2026 | Detached | £670,000 | £670,000 |
| 31 Hurst Green | 10 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| PLOVER GREEN Blue Stone Lane | 16 Feb 2026 | Detached | £610,000 | £610,000 |
| 1 CITY COTTAGE Hall Lane | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 11 Ashtrees | 22 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| ORCHARD BARN Syd Brook Lane | 9 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £875,000 | £894,022 |
| KESTREL HOUSE Blue Stone Lane | 9 Dec 2025 | Detached | £737,500 | £753,533 |
| 18 Brookfield | 6 Nov 2025 | Detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| THE NOOK Ridley Lane | 10 Oct 2025 | Detached | £520,000 | £531,304 |
| 5 New Street | 26 Sep 2025 | Detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 38 Tarnbeck Drive | 19 Sep 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 59 Hurst Green | 19 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 3 Oaktree Close | 4 Sep 2025 | Detached | £810,000 | £827,609 |
| 17 Tarnbeck Drive | 15 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| TRIE CASSYN Ridley Lane | 7 Aug 2025 | Detached | £555,000 | £567,065 |
| THREE ACRES Black Moor Lane | 4 Aug 2025 | Detached | £1,950,000 | £1,992,391 |
| 43 Hurst Green | 30 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 19 Tarnbeck Drive | 11 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| BLUESTONE VILLA Blue Stone Lane | 23 May 2025 | Detached | £445,000 | £454,674 |
| 72 New Street | 23 May 2025 | Terraced | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 1 Oaktree Close | 19 May 2025 | Detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| 47 Hurst Green | 8 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £232,500 | £237,554 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 L40 2 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Sycamore Close | £82,500 (2000) | £365,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 2 Brookfield | £360,000 (2014) | £565,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 31 Hurst Green | £185,000 (2021) | £285,000 (2026) | +9.0% | +4.0% |
| PLOVER GREEN Blue Stone Lane | £150,000 (1998) | £610,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 1 CITY COTTAGE Hall Lane | £320,000 (2012) | £410,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 18 Brookfield | £65,500 (1997) | £435,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 5 New Street | £240,000 (2017) | £500,000 (2025) | +9.6% | +5.7% |
| 38 Tarnbeck Drive | £302,000 (2015) | £395,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.5% |
| THREE ACRES Black Moor Lane | £1,500,000 (2011) | £1,950,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 19 Tarnbeck Drive | £74,500 (1997) | £270,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| BLUESTONE VILLA Blue Stone Lane | £380,000 (2021) | £445,000 (2025) | +4.0% | -1.4% |
| 47 Hurst Green | £205,000 (2022) | £232,500 (2025) | +4.3% | +0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L40 2 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 281 | 49.8% | £315,000 | £30,000 – £1,950,000 |
| Semi-detached | 191 | 33.9% | £157,000 | £41,500 – £875,000 |
| Terraced | 75 | 13.3% | £155,000 | £40,000 – £638,750 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 3.0% | £216,000 | £41,750 – £350,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in L40 2
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 155 certificates cover L40 2, and their median floor area is 112 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +47.4%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 112 m² | about 1,206 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 76 m² | about 813 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 171 m² | about 1,835 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 16.1% | 25 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 33.5% | 52 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L40 2
73 of the sales on record are leasehold and 491 freehold — 12.9% 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 £142,000 and the median freehold sale £225,000 — a gap of +58.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 73 | 12.9% | £142,000 |
| Freehold | 491 | 87.1% | £225,000 |
| New build | 6 | 1.1% | £86,975 |
| Existing home | 558 | 98.9% | £215,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -59.5%. 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 56 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.
Section 07
Living in L40 2
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chorley, 49.1% of 53,253 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 472 | 0.9% |
| B | 7,878 | 14.8% |
| C | 17,819 | 33.5% |
| D | 19,242 | 36.1% |
| E | 5,947 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,439 | 2.7% |
| G | 456 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chorley at £785 a month as of Jun 2026 — £589 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £213,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.41% 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 L40, 35 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 13 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.8 times quieter.
Against the 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 0.30 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around L40 2
The 2021 census counted 117,732 residents in Chorley across 50,135 households. 72.8% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a L40 postcode: 14 primary, 1 all-through, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burscough Priory Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 729 |
| Maharishi Free School | All-through | Free schools | 229 |
| Burscough Village Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Burscough Lordsgate Township Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 190 |
| Burscough Bridge St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 135 |
| Rufford CofE School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 114 |
| Westhead Lathom St James' Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 105 |
| St John's Catholic Primary School, Burscough | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 94 |
| Ormskirk Lathom Park Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 79 |
| Richard Durning's Endowed Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 77 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Burscough Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| New Lane Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Hoscar Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Rufford Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How L40 2 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L40 2 sits above that national figure — +35.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,932 per square metre, across 7 of the 564 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 £30,000 to £1,950,000. 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.
L40 2 sits in Chorley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chorley at 6.3 times median local earnings of £34,980 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Other sectors in L40
- L40 0£143,000 median
- L40 1£222,500 median
- L40 3£345,000 median
- L40 4£160,000 median
- L40 5£165,950 median
- L40 6£187,000 median
- L40 7£165,000 median
- L40 8£213,000 median
- L40 9£205,000 median
The wider district is L40.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L40 2?
The median price paid in L40 2 across every sale on the register is £213,500. 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 L40 2?
564 sales are on record for L40 2, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L40 2 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were L40 2 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £440,000, set in 2025. 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 L40 2?
£3,932 per square metre, from the 7 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 1 May 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, “L40 2 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.