LA12 house prices are built from 11,777 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £149,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.5%.
Median price paid
£149,950
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+43.1%
Change in real terms
+2.5%
Median per m²
£1,808
HM Land Registry11,777 sales1,806 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026
Section 01
How LA12 prices moved
The chart tracks the median LA12 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | 5 | £53,000 | £117,685 |
| 2000s | 10 | £139,500 | £254,128 |
| 2010s | 10 | £170,500 | £240,405 |
| 2020s | 7 | £260,000 | £265,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for LA12 is £275,000 in 2024; the lowest is £50,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £257,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +131.9% — about +2.75% 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: +43.1% in cash against +2.5% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender Cottage, 2 Sunny Bank | 23 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| Groffa Cragg Farm | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| 75 Birchwood Drive | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 41 Casson Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 41 Bigland Drive | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £376,000 | £376,000 |
| 38 Sunderland Terrace | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 20 Oakwood Drive | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 3 Birch House | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 17 Byron Street | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 5 Beech Court | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| 9 Ash Court | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £232,000 | £232,000 |
| 8 Union Place | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| Foxdale | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 112 Birchwood Drive | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 31 Fell Street | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 14 Helm Grove | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £178,750 | £178,750 |
| 33 Byron Street | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £162,500 | £162,500 |
| 16 VICTORIA COURT Ford Park Crescent | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £161,500 | £161,500 |
| 6 Queensberry Court | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £332,000 | £332,000 |
| 19 Ainslie Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £187,000 | £187,000 |
| 3 VICTORIA COURT Ford Park Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 78 Kennedy Place | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £725,000 | £725,000 |
| 23 Old Hall Road | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| PENDLEHURST Belmont | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £810,000 | £810,000 |
| 2 Ash Court | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
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 LA12 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 Birchwood Drive | £145,000 (2008) | £235,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 41 Casson Street | £118,600 (2004) | £180,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 38 Sunderland Terrace | £110,500 (2009) | £250,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 20 Oakwood Drive | £83,000 (2005) | £215,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 17 Byron Street | £54,000 (2003) | £140,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 3 Birch House | £155,000 (2020) | £190,000 (2026) | +3.5% | -0.9% |
| 9 Ash Court | £38,000 (2002) | £232,000 (2026) | +7.8% | +4.9% |
| 5 Beech Court | £212,500 (2001) | £520,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| 8 Union Place | £167,500 (2007) | £210,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| 31 Fell Street | £59,950 (2000) | £275,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 16 VICTORIA COURT Ford Park Crescent | £111,995 (2006) | £161,500 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| 33 Byron Street | £23,000 (1998) | £162,500 (2026) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. LA12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 4,345 | 36.9% | £119,000 | £10,000 – £775,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3,494 | 29.7% | £148,000 | £15,200 – £1,750,025 |
| Detached | 3,285 | 27.9% | £243,000 | £11,250 – £8,100,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 653 | 5.5% | £117,000 | £2,500 – £580,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in LA12
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,245 certificates cover LA12, and their median floor area is 83 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 83 m² | about 893 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 64 m² | about 689 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 119 m² | about 1,281 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 19.0% | 617 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 13.3% | 433 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in LA12
734 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11,043 freehold — 6.2% 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 £120,625 and the median freehold sale £150,500 — a gap of +24.8%. 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 | 734 | 6.2% | £120,625 |
| Freehold | 11,043 | 93.8% | £150,500 |
| New build | 902 | 7.7% | £197,500 |
| Existing home | 10,875 | 92.3% | £145,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +36.2%. 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 657 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 LA12
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 731 | 0.6% |
| B | 9,385 | 7.7% |
| C | 29,797 | 24.3% |
| D | 46,012 | 37.5% |
| E | 22,921 | 18.7% |
| F | 10,237 | 8.3% |
| G | 3,547 | 2.9% |
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 £149,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.47% 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 LA12, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 24 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.
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 LA12
11 state and independent schools have a LA12 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulverston Victoria High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,319 |
| Sir John Barrow School | Primary | Community school | 235 |
| Pennington CofE School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 211 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston | Primary | Academy converter | 155 |
| Croftlands Junior School | Primary | Community school | 152 |
| Low Furness CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 127 |
| Penny Bridge CofE School | Primary | Academy converter | 123 |
| Croftlands Infant School | Primary | Community school | 119 |
| Church Walk CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 88 |
| Lindal and Marton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 78 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ulverston Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Kirkby-in-Furness Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
| Haverthwaite (Lakeside and Haverthwaite Rly) | Metro or underground | 7.5 km |
| Cark Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How LA12 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. LA12 sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,808 per square metre, across 1,806 of the 11,777 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 £2,500 to £8,100,000. 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.
LA12 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside LA12
The closest districts
- LA1413.4 km · £70,000
- LA520.1 km · £154,000
- LA421.1 km · £96,000
- LA321.6 km · £99,950
- LA125.4 km · £114,000
- LA925.9 km · £145,000
- FY732.1 km · £84,000
- FY536.7 km · £115,000
This district mostly covers Ulverston.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in LA12?
The median price paid in LA12 across every sale on the register is £149,950. 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 LA12?
11,777 sales are on record for LA12, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have LA12 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were LA12 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £275,000, 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 LA12?
£1,808 per square metre, from the 1,806 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 23 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, “LA12 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.