Valley Drive, Kendal house prices

Valley Drive, Kendal house prices are built from 425 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 4 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +31.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.7%.

HM Land Registry425 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 4 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Valley Drive, Kendal house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Valley Drive, Kendal is £329,000 in 2022; the lowest is £70,975 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £70,975 to £280,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £157,598, so the real change over the whole record is +81.5% — about +2.01% 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: +31.5% in cash against -4.7% 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.

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 Valley Drive, 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. Valley Drive, Kendal is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

114 of the sales on record are leasehold and 311 freehold — 26.8% 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 £92,900 and the median freehold sale £167,500 — a gap of +80.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -51.0%. 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 11 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 £130,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.43% 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. Valley Drive, Kendal sits below that national figure — -17.1%.

Within Kendal the street ranks 431 of 592 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £155,000 (-15.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,942 per square metre, across 48 of the 425 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 £23,950 to £440,000. 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.

Valley Drive, 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

• 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
• Blackhall Road£110,450 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 270 Valley Drive6 sales
• 187 Valley Drive5 sales
• 35 Valley Drive5 sales
• 130A Valley Drive5 sales
• 277 Valley Drive5 sales
• 218 Valley Drive5 sales
• EDENSTONES, 146 Valley Drive5 sales
• 265 Valley Drive5 sales
• 167 Valley Drive4 sales
• 189 Valley Drive4 sales
• 171 Valley Drive4 sales
• 138 Valley Drive4 sales
• 47 Valley Drive4 sales
• 285 Valley Drive4 sales
• 185 Valley Drive4 sales
• 124 Valley Drive4 sales
• 161 Valley Drive4 sales
• 276 Valley Drive4 sales
• 193 Valley Drive4 sales
• 109 Valley Drive4 sales
• 132A Valley Drive4 sales
• 128A Valley Drive4 sales
• 126A Valley Drive4 sales
• 303 Valley Drive4 sales

Back to Kendal house prices.

What is the average house price in Valley Drive, Kendal?

The median price paid in Valley Drive, Kendal across every sale on the register is £130,500. 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 Valley Drive, Kendal?

425 sales are on record for Valley Drive, Kendal, the most recent completing on 4 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Valley Drive, Kendal house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +31.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Valley Drive, Kendal house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £329,000, 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 Valley Drive, Kendal?

£1,942 per square metre, from the 48 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 4 Jun 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, “Valley Drive, 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.