Isel Road, Cockermouth house prices are built from 58 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2020 and the most recent on 5 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £262,500. Across the 5 years from 2020 to 2025 the median moved +5.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.7%.
Median price paid
£262,500
Change in cash, 2020–2025
+5.6%
Change in real terms
-16.7%
Median per m²
£3,304
HM Land Registry58 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Isel Road, Cockermouth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Isel Road, Cockermouth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2020 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 4 | £302,499 | £309,075 |
The highest yearly median on record for Isel Road, Cockermouth is £319,505 in 2025; the lowest is £230,499 in 2021. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £302,499 to £319,505.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £391,665, so the real change over the whole record is -16.7% — about -3.58% 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: +5.6% in cash against -16.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 27 Lancaster Court | 5 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 45 | 28 Nov 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| Apartment 15 Lancaster Court | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| Apartment 12 Lancaster Court | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £299,000 | £305,500 |
| Apartment 24 Lancaster Court | 7 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £319,505 | £326,451 |
| 7 | 26 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| Apartment 27 Lancaster Court | 18 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| Apartment 16 Lancaster Court | 26 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| Apartment 35 Lancaster Court | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £302,999 | £327,378 |
| Apartment 14 Lancaster Court | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| Apartment 20 Lancaster Court | 22 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £214,999 | £249,095 |
| 47 | 9 Dec 2022 | Detached | £462,000 | £535,267 |
| Apartment 7 Lancaster Court | 28 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £273,499 | £316,872 |
| Apartment 5 Lancaster Court | 27 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £214,999 | £249,095 |
| 9 | 15 Jul 2022 | Detached | £370,050 | £428,735 |
| Apartment 1 Lancaster Court | 1 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £324,999 | £376,540 |
| Apartment 28 Lancaster Court | 1 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £350,999 | £406,663 |
| Apartment 34 Lancaster Court | 29 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £344,999 | £399,711 |
| Apartment 2 Lancaster Court | 29 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £321,999 | £373,064 |
| Apartment 22 Lancaster Court | 29 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £288,499 | £334,251 |
| Apartment 15 Lancaster Court | 27 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,999 | £267,632 |
| Apartment 36 Lancaster Court | 2 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £307,999 | £356,844 |
| Apartment 17 Lancaster Court | 10 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £243,999 | £308,278 |
| Apartment 29 Lancaster Court | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £230,499 | £291,222 |
| Apartment 37 Lancaster Court | 1 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £202,999 | £256,477 |
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 Isel Road, Cockermouth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 27 LANCASTER COURT Isel Road | £357,999 (2020) | £375,000 (2025) | +0.9% | -3.7% |
| 45 Isel Road | £265,000 (2007) | £370,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.1% |
| APARTMENT 15 LANCASTER COURT Isel Road | £230,999 (2022) | £210,000 (2025) | -3.1% | -7.1% |
| APARTMENT 12 LANCASTER COURT Isel Road | £337,999 (2020) | £299,000 (2025) | -2.4% | -6.9% |
| APARTMENT 24 LANCASTER COURT Isel Road | £314,999 (2020) | £319,505 (2025) | +0.3% | -4.4% |
| 5 Isel Road | £84,000 (2001) | £280,000 (2020) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 11 Isel Road | £250,000 (2014) | £320,000 (2014) | +28.0% | +28.0% |
| 25 Isel Road | £55,500 (1995) | £285,000 (2013) | +9.5% | +7.0% |
| 35 Isel Road | £140,000 (2005) | £232,500 (2013) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 41 Isel Road | £84,750 (2000) | £228,000 (2010) | +10.4% | +7.9% |
| 43 Isel Road | £57,000 (1995) | £59,000 (1996) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Isel Road, Cockermouth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 34 | 58.6% | £299,000 | £176,999 – £375,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 29.3% | £195,000 | £55,500 – £285,000 |
| Detached | 7 | 12.1% | £320,000 | £249,950 – £462,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Isel Road, Cockermouth
34 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 58.6% 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 £299,500 and the median freehold sale £222,500 — a gap of -25.7%. 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 | 34 | 58.6% | £299,500 |
| Freehold | 24 | 41.4% | £222,500 |
| New build | 6 | 10.3% | £302,499 |
| Existing home | 52 | 89.7% | £249,975 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +21.0%. 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 49 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 09
How Isel Road, Cockermouth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Isel Road, Cockermouth sits above that national figure — +66.7%.
Within Cockermouth the street ranks 35 of 270 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £155,000 (+69.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,304 per square metre, across 5 of the 58 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 £55,500 to £462,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Church Meadows£128,500 median
- Main Street£119,000 median
- The Parklands£232,000 median
- High Brigham£143,375 median
- Sullart Street£134,500 median
- Gable Avenue£165,000 median
- Woodville Park£239,950 median
- Brigham Road£178,750 median
- Low Road Close£210,995 median
- Kirkgate£123,000 median
- Derwentside Gardens£238,500 median
- St Helens Street£118,500 median
- Dale View£220,000 median
- Sandybeck Way£397,450 median
- Harrot Hill£216,000 median
- High Rigg£171,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- APARTMENT 27, LANCASTER COURT Isel Road3 sales
- 35 Isel Road3 sales
- 45 Isel Road2 sales
- APARTMENT 15, LANCASTER COURT Isel Road2 sales
- APARTMENT 12, LANCASTER COURT Isel Road2 sales
- APARTMENT 24, LANCASTER COURT Isel Road2 sales
- 5 Isel Road2 sales
- 11 Isel Road2 sales
- 25 Isel Road2 sales
- 41 Isel Road2 sales
- 43 Isel Road2 sales
Back to Cockermouth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Isel Road, Cockermouth?
The median price paid in Isel Road, Cockermouth across every sale on the register is £262,500. 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 Isel Road, Cockermouth?
58 sales are on record for Isel Road, Cockermouth, the most recent completing on 5 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Isel Road, Cockermouth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +5.6% between 2020 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Isel Road, Cockermouth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £319,505, 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 Isel Road, Cockermouth?
£3,304 per square metre, from the 5 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 5 Dec 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, “Isel Road, Cockermouth 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.