Swallow Close, Carnforth house prices are built from 61 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2015 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000.
Median price paid
£320,000
HM Land Registry61 salesLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Swallow Close, Carnforth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Swallow Close, Carnforth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2015 to 2017. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 3 | £320,000 | £451,200 |
The highest yearly median on record for Swallow Close, Carnforth is £329,950 in 2016; the lowest is £274,950 in 2015. Across the full 3-year record the cash median has moved from £274,950 to £320,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £387,680, so the real change over the whole record is +12.3% — about +5.99% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 35 | 16 Jan 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 13 | 21 Nov 2025 | Detached | £510,000 | £521,087 |
| 25 | 12 Feb 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 32 | 17 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £94,500 | £96,554 |
| 74 | 1 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £228,000 | £239,910 |
| 13 | 29 Sep 2023 | Detached | £510,000 | £551,034 |
| 44 | 7 Sep 2021 | Detached | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| 64 | 25 Mar 2021 | Detached | £380,000 | £480,108 |
| 10 | 4 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £178,000 | £230,468 |
| 9 | 2 Oct 2020 | Detached | £305,000 | £394,904 |
| 4 | 23 Sep 2020 | Detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| 31 | 28 Feb 2020 | Detached | £332,500 | £430,510 |
| 2 | 8 Mar 2019 | Detached | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 21 | 17 Oct 2018 | Detached | £293,000 | £390,482 |
| 34 | 12 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| 8 | 1 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £292,616 |
| 44 | 27 Oct 2017 | Detached | £330,000 | £449,131 |
| 42 | 13 Oct 2017 | Detached | £320,000 | £435,521 |
| 62 | 29 Sep 2017 | Detached | £339,950 | £462,673 |
| 74 | 11 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £169,950 | £231,303 |
| 46 | 8 Aug 2017 | Detached | £290,000 | £394,691 |
| 50 | 4 Aug 2017 | Detached | £335,000 | £455,936 |
| 68 | 30 Jun 2017 | Detached | £335,000 | £455,936 |
| 54 | 26 Jun 2017 | Detached | £347,000 | £472,268 |
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 Swallow Close, Carnforth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 Swallow Close | £219,950 (2015) | £250,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.9% |
| 35 Swallow Close | £274,000 (2017) | £395,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 13 Swallow Close | £324,950 (2015) | £510,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.3% |
| 25 Swallow Close | £329,950 (2016) | £400,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -1.3% |
| 74 Swallow Close | £169,950 (2017) | £228,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +0.5% |
| 44 Swallow Close | £330,000 (2017) | £425,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.6% |
| 64 Swallow Close | £299,000 (2017) | £380,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +4.2% |
| 10 Swallow Close | £165,000 (2016) | £178,000 (2020) | +1.9% | +0.0% |
| 9 Swallow Close | £289,950 (2015) | £305,000 (2020) | +1.0% | -0.7% |
| 4 Swallow Close | £319,950 (2015) | £320,000 (2020) | +0.0% | -1.7% |
| 31 Swallow Close | £329,950 (2016) | £332,500 (2020) | +0.2% | -1.7% |
| 2 Swallow Close | £274,950 (2015) | £280,000 (2019) | +0.5% | -1.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swallow Close, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 49 | 80.3% | £329,950 | £235,000 – £510,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 11.5% | £215,000 | £209,950 – £250,000 |
| Terraced | 5 | 8.2% | £169,950 | £94,500 – £228,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Swallow Close, Carnforth
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 60 freehold — 1.6% 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 £94,500 and the median freehold sale £320,000 — a gap of +238.6%. 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 | 1 | 1.6% | £94,500 |
| Freehold | 60 | 98.4% | £320,000 |
| New build | 20 | 32.8% | £319,975 |
| Existing home | 41 | 67.2% | £320,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — 0.0%. 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 3 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 Swallow Close, 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 £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.04% 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 Swallow Close, 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 Swallow Close, Carnforth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swallow Close, Carnforth sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Within Carnforth the street ranks 46 of 498 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £169,000 (+89.3%).
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 £94,500 to £510,000. 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.
Swallow Close, 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
- 34 Swallow Close3 sales
- 13 Swallow Close3 sales
- 35 Swallow Close2 sales
- 25 Swallow Close2 sales
- 74 Swallow Close2 sales
- 44 Swallow Close2 sales
- 64 Swallow Close2 sales
- 10 Swallow Close2 sales
- 9 Swallow Close2 sales
- 4 Swallow Close2 sales
- 31 Swallow Close2 sales
- 2 Swallow Close2 sales
- 21 Swallow Close2 sales
- 8 Swallow Close2 sales
Back to Carnforth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Swallow Close, Carnforth?
The median price paid in Swallow Close, Carnforth across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 Swallow Close, Carnforth?
61 sales are on record for Swallow Close, Carnforth, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Swallow Close, Carnforth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £329,950, set in 2016. 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 Swallow Close, 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 30 Apr 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, “Swallow Close, 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.