Lowlands Road, Carnforth house prices are built from 73 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 17 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £147,000. Across the 18 years from 2003 to 2021 the median moved +63.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.4%.
Median price paid
£147,000
Change in cash, 2003–2021
+63.6%
Change in real terms
+9.4%
HM Land Registry73 salesLatest sale 17 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Lowlands Road, Carnforth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lowlands Road, Carnforth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £50,000 | £111,024 |
| 2000s | 1 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2020s | 1 | £198,000 | £202,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lowlands Road, Carnforth is £198,000 in 2021; the lowest is £50,000 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £198,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,462, so the real change over the whole record is +130.6% — about +3.40% 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: +63.6% in cash against +9.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 17 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 1 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 3 | 21 Mar 2025 | Detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 32 | 30 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 32 | 17 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 7 | 8 Aug 2022 | Detached | £266,000 | £308,184 |
| 15a | 10 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 18 | 15 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 1 | 8 Dec 2021 | Detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 25 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 31 | 26 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 26 | 9 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| 29 | 7 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £162,000 | £209,752 |
| 16 | 25 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £167,000 | £216,226 |
| 34 | 10 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £172,500 | £223,347 |
| 44 | 9 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £149,950 | £196,131 |
| 17 | 16 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £179,915 |
| 10 | 26 Oct 2017 | Detached | £161,000 | £219,122 |
| 27 | 1 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £143,000 | £194,624 |
| 40 | 2 May 2017 | Detached | £167,000 | £227,288 |
| 31 | 3 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £210,956 |
| 20 | 6 Jun 2016 | Semi-detached | £189,000 | £263,851 |
| 15 | 16 May 2016 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £230,347 |
| 29 | 22 Feb 2016 | Semi-detached | £138,000 | £192,653 |
| 15a | 4 Jan 2016 | Semi-detached | £163,000 | £227,554 |
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 Lowlands Road, Carnforth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 Lowlands Road | £57,000 (2000) | £250,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 1 Lowlands Road | £255,000 (2021) | £260,000 (2025) | +0.5% | -4.7% |
| 3 Lowlands Road | £121,000 (2003) | £205,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| 32 Lowlands Road | £49,500 (1997) | £230,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 7 Lowlands Road | £152,000 (2008) | £266,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 15A Lowlands Road | £56,000 (2001) | £210,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +3.9% |
| 18 Lowlands Road | £53,000 (2001) | £225,000 (2021) | +7.5% | +5.2% |
| 31 Lowlands Road | £155,000 (2017) | £190,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +3.3% |
| 29 Lowlands Road | £20,000 (2001) | £162,000 (2020) | +11.6% | +9.2% |
| 16 Lowlands Road | £142,500 (2006) | £167,000 (2020) | +1.1% | -1.1% |
| 34 Lowlands Road | £90,000 (2005) | £172,500 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
| 44 Lowlands Road | £84,000 (2002) | £149,950 (2019) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lowlands Road, Carnforth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 54 | 74.0% | £142,500 | £17,000 – £250,000 |
| Detached | 19 | 26.0% | £152,000 | £50,000 – £266,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lowlands Road, Carnforth
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 73 | 100.0% | £147,000 |
A further 2 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 Lowlands Road, Carnforth
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lancaster, 36.5% of 70,375 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 370 | 0.5% |
| B | 5,455 | 7.8% |
| C | 19,858 | 28.2% |
| D | 28,701 | 40.8% |
| E | 11,596 | 16.5% |
| F | 3,167 | 4.5% |
| G | 1,228 | 1.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lancaster at £811 a month as of Jun 2026 — £593 for a one-bedroom home and £911 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £147,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.62% 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 LA5, 4 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 41.8 times quieter.
Against the 142,934 residents the 2021 census counted in Lancaster, that is 0.03 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 Lowlands Road, Carnforth
The 2021 census counted 142,934 residents in Lancaster across 59,978 households. 67.9% of those households own their home and 32.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a LA5 postcode: 8 primary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnforth High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 657 |
| Bolton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 290 |
| Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 113 |
| Carnforth Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 99 |
| Arnside National CofE School | Primary | Academy converter | 95 |
| Warton Archbishop Hutton's VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 95 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Carnforth | Primary | Academy converter | 81 |
| Silverdale St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 55 |
| Yealand Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 32 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Carnforth Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Silverdale Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Arnside Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Bare Lane Rail Station | Rail | 8.2 km |
Section 09
How Lowlands Road, Carnforth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lowlands Road, Carnforth sits below that national figure — -6.7%.
Within Carnforth the street ranks 332 of 498 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,000 (-13.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £17,000 to £266,000. 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.
Lowlands Road, Carnforth sits in Lancaster, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lancaster at 5.8 times median local earnings of £34,731 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
- North Road£132,000 median
- Lancaster Road£123,250 median
- Silverdale Road£208,750 median
- Main Road£163,000 median
- Redruth Drive£152,000 median
- Crag Bank Road£151,500 median
- Slyne Road£189,950 median
- Redhills Road£240,000 median
- Church Hill£187,725 median
- Windermere Road£123,000 median
- Kellet Road£102,500 median
- Plantation Avenue£172,475 median
- Bridgeside£199,950 median
- Sunnybank Road£150,000 median
- Station Road£150,500 median
- Promenade£146,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 15A Lowlands Road5 sales
- 42 Lowlands Road4 sales
- 3 Lowlands Road4 sales
- 32 Lowlands Road4 sales
- 29 Lowlands Road4 sales
- 18 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 16 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 34 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 44 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 27 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 20 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 15 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 8 Lowlands Road3 sales
- 1 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 7 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 31 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 17 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 40 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 36 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 19 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 14 Lowlands Road2 sales
- 4 Lowlands Road2 sales
Back to Carnforth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lowlands Road, Carnforth?
The median price paid in Lowlands Road, Carnforth across every sale on the register is £147,000. 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 Lowlands Road, Carnforth?
73 sales are on record for Lowlands Road, Carnforth, the most recent completing on 17 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lowlands Road, Carnforth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +63.6% between 2003 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lowlands Road, Carnforth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £198,000, set in 2021. 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 Lowlands Road, Carnforth?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 17 Oct 2025. 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, “Lowlands Road, Carnforth 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.