Empsom Road, Kendal house prices

Empsom Road, Kendal house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,500. Across the 15 years from 2009 to 2024 the median moved +105.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +31.5%.

HM Land Registry88 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Empsom Road, Kendal house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Empsom Road, Kendal is £308,000 in 2024; the lowest is £58,500 in 2001. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £64,000 to £308,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £135,699, so the real change over the whole record is +138.8% — about +3.28% 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: +105.3% in cash against +31.5% 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.

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.

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 Empsom Road, Kendal values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Empsom Road, Kendal is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 88 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.

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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Westmorland and Furness, 32.5% of 122,630 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 11.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Westmorland and Furness at £808 a month as of Jun 2026 — £598 for a one-bedroom home and £933 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £143,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.76% 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 LA9, 164 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 79 violent, 1 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

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.

13 state and independent schools have a LA9 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Empsom Road, Kendal sits below that national figure — -8.9%.

Within Kendal the street ranks 379 of 592 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £155,000 (-7.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,064 per square metre, across 18 of the 88 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 £38,500 to £425,000. 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.

Empsom Road, Kendal sits in Westmorland and Furness, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Westmorland and Furness at 5.9 times median local earnings of £40,529 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.

Streets nearby

• Valley Drive£130,500 median
• Windermere Road£165,000 median
• Stramongate£123,000 median
• Highgate£107,000 median
• Burneside Road£190,000 median
• Sandes Avenue£75,000 median
• Lingmoor Rise£132,000 median
• Hayclose Road£134,500 median
• Bleaswood Road£110,000 median
• Moore Field Close£80,000 median
• Vicarage Drive£177,500 median
• Archers Meadow£160,000 median
• Websters Yard£84,975 median
• Helmside Road£140,000 median
• Kirkland£69,500 median
• Sandylands Road£120,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 39 Empsom Road4 sales
• 27 Empsom Road4 sales
• 21 Empsom Road3 sales
• 23 Empsom Road3 sales
• 22 Empsom Road3 sales
• 15 Empsom Road3 sales
• 31 Empsom Road2 sales
• 52 Empsom Road2 sales
• 29 Empsom Road2 sales
• 28 Empsom Road2 sales
• 44 Empsom Road2 sales
• 41 Empsom Road2 sales
• 13 Empsom Road2 sales
• 36 Empsom Road2 sales
• NONESUCH Empsom Road2 sales
• 34 Empsom Road2 sales
• 16 Empsom Road2 sales
• 19 Empsom Road2 sales
• 35 Empsom Road2 sales
• 40 Empsom Road2 sales
• 46 Empsom Road2 sales
• 50 Empsom Road2 sales
• 57 Empsom Road2 sales
• 11 Empsom Road2 sales

Back to Kendal house prices.

What is the average house price in Empsom Road, Kendal?

The median price paid in Empsom Road, Kendal across every sale on the register is £143,500. 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 Empsom Road, Kendal?

88 sales are on record for Empsom Road, Kendal, 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 Empsom Road, Kendal house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +105.3% between 2009 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +31.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Empsom Road, Kendal house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £308,000, set in 2024. 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 Empsom Road, Kendal?

£3,064 per square metre, from the 18 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, “Empsom Road, Kendal 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.