Watermans Walk, Carlisle house prices are built from 293 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £139,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +32.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.3%.
Median price paid
£139,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+32.1%
Change in real terms
-4.3%
Median per m²
£1,760
HM Land Registry293 sales75 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How Watermans Walk, Carlisle prices moved
The chart tracks the median Watermans Walk, Carlisle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £133,000 | £242,287 |
| 2010s | 8 | £130,000 | £183,300 |
| 2020s | 6 | £165,000 | £168,587 |
The highest yearly median on record for Watermans Walk, Carlisle is £209,498 in 2022; the lowest is £113,250 in 2023. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £138,025 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £256,073, so the real change over the whole record is -30.2% — about -1.70% 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: +32.1% in cash against -4.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 100 | 13 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £109,950 | £109,950 |
| 75 | 17 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 81 | 22 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 11 | 9 Oct 2025 | Detached | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 104 | 29 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £114,946 |
| 2 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 51 | 22 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £159,950 | £168,306 |
| 41 | 19 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £147,313 |
| 88 | 29 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 64 | 24 May 2024 | Detached | £249,500 | £262,534 |
| 11 | 4 Mar 2024 | Detached | £208,000 | £218,866 |
| 52 | 29 Feb 2024 | Detached | £258,000 | £271,478 |
| 53 | 6 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £162,500 | £175,575 |
| 74 | 25 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £109,126 |
| 110 | 4 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £121,552 |
| 86 | 28 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 90 | 5 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £114,000 | £123,172 |
| 148 | 3 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 5 | 19 Dec 2022 | Detached | £242,000 | £280,378 |
| 156 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £152,000 | £176,105 |
| 2 | 12 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 144 | 29 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £106,590 |
| 1 | 10 Mar 2022 | Detached | £219,000 | £253,730 |
| 11 | 4 Feb 2022 | Detached | £199,995 | £231,712 |
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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 Watermans Walk | £145,000 (2006) | £115,000 (2026) | -1.2% | -4.0% |
| 100 Watermans Walk | £80,000 (2021) | £109,950 (2026) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 75 Watermans Walk | £133,700 (2005) | £175,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 81 Watermans Walk | £124,405 (2005) | £150,000 (2025) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| 11 Watermans Walk | £124,560 (2004) | £245,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 104 Watermans Walk | £119,950 (2005) | £112,500 (2025) | -0.3% | -3.2% |
| 2 Watermans Walk | £140,750 (2004) | £285,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 51 Watermans Walk | £132,900 (2004) | £159,950 (2024) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| 41 Watermans Walk | £113,500 (2004) | £140,000 (2024) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 64 Watermans Walk | £183,900 (2004) | £249,500 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.3% |
| 52 Watermans Walk | £159,950 (2006) | £258,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 53 Watermans Walk | £134,250 (2004) | £162,500 (2023) | +1.0% | -1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Watermans Walk, Carlisle 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 | 117 | 39.9% | £171,000 | £92,000 – £258,000 |
| Semi-detached | 86 | 29.4% | £126,700 | £90,200 – £285,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 78 | 26.6% | £118,102 | £76,000 – £199,000 |
| Terraced | 12 | 4.1% | £129,500 | £120,000 – £152,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Watermans Walk, Carlisle
226 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67 freehold — 77.1% 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 £133,650 and the median freehold sale £155,555 — a gap of +16.4%. 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 | 226 | 77.1% | £133,650 |
| Freehold | 67 | 22.9% | £155,555 |
| New build | 107 | 36.5% | £139,700 |
| Existing home | 186 | 63.5% | £137,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +1.6%. 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 13 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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cumberland, 37.3% of 137,831 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 656 | 0.5% |
| B | 13,329 | 9.7% |
| C | 37,364 | 27.1% |
| D | 54,653 | 39.7% |
| E | 20,980 | 15.2% |
| F | 7,759 | 5.6% |
| G | 3,090 | 2.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cumberland at £670 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £772 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £139,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.76% 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 CA1, 398 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 180 violent, 9 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.4 times busier.
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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle
9 state and independent schools have a CA1 postcode: 7 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,711 |
| Richard Rose Central Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,035 |
| Pennine Way Primary School | Primary | Community school | 558 |
| Norman Street Primary School | Primary | Community school | 322 |
| Inglewood Infant School | Primary | Community school | 267 |
| Inglewood Junior School | Primary | Community school | 229 |
| Brook Street Primary School | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Carlisle | Primary | Academy converter | 188 |
| Petteril Bank School | Primary | Academy converter | 147 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Carlisle Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Wetheral Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
| Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
| Armathwaite Rail Station | Rail | 12.3 km |
Section 09
How Watermans Walk, Carlisle compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Watermans Walk, Carlisle sits below that national figure — -11.4%.
Within Carlisle the street ranks 464 of 1208 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+32.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,760 per square metre, across 75 of the 293 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 £76,000 to £285,000. 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.
Watermans Walk, Carlisle sits in Cumberland, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cumberland at 4.2 times median local earnings of £42,808 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
Streets nearby
- Warwick Road£130,000 median
- London Road£116,250 median
- Valley Drive£117,500 median
- Greystone Road£85,000 median
- Pennine Way£82,000 median
- Moorside Drive£129,475 median
- Longholme Road£65,000 median
- Oswald Street£65,750 median
- Edgehill Road£83,250 median
- Sybil Street£65,000 median
- Walkmill Crescent£108,700 median
- Beverley Rise£70,000 median
- Broadoaks Grange£59,950 median
- Lindisfarne Street£60,000 median
- Petteril Street£120,000 median
- Pennine View£160,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11 Watermans Walk6 sales
- 75 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 110 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 90 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 156 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 47 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 22 Watermans Walk5 sales
- 2 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 51 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 64 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 52 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 67 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 10 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 116 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 83 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 160 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 6 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 30 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 3 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 44 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 12 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 26 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 130 Watermans Walk4 sales
- 61 Watermans Walk4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Watermans Walk, Carlisle?
The median price paid in Watermans Walk, Carlisle across every sale on the register is £139,500. 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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle?
293 sales are on record for Watermans Walk, Carlisle, 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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Watermans Walk, Carlisle house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £209,498, set in 2022. 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 Watermans Walk, Carlisle?
£1,760 per square metre, from the 75 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, “Watermans Walk, Carlisle 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.