Sefton Road, Morecambe house prices are built from 185 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £65,000. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +10.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.2%.
Median price paid
£65,000
Change in cash, 2012–2022
+10.7%
Change in real terms
-14.2%
Median per m²
£803
HM Land Registry185 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Sefton Road, Morecambe prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sefton Road, Morecambe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. 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 | 3 | £32,750 | £72,720 |
| 2000s | 9 | £60,000 | £109,302 |
| 2010s | 4 | £77,750 | £109,628 |
| 2020s | 1 | £83,000 | £84,804 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sefton Road, Morecambe is £94,178 in 2005; the lowest is £23,250 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £23,250 to £83,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £50,435, so the real change over the whole record is +90.7% — about +2.51% 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: +10.7% in cash against -14.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | 28 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 80 | 18 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 88 | 4 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 42 Mearsbeck | 25 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £96,500 | £98,598 |
| 83 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 71 | 13 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £135,000 | £142,052 |
| 92 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 12 Mearsbeck | 3 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £92,071 |
| 34 Mearsbeck | 5 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £99,402 |
| 80 | 25 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 94 | 11 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £139,000 | £150,184 |
| 32 | 14 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| Flat 4 20 | 28 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £52,000 | £60,247 |
| 2 Mearsbeck | 2 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £61,000 | £70,674 |
| 21 | 24 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £46,000 | £53,295 |
| 14 Mearsbeck | 22 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £84,565 | £97,976 |
| 22 Mearsbeck | 6 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £96,163 |
| 3 Mearsbeck | 6 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £75,308 |
| 38 | 28 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 42 Mearsbeck | 9 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £101,956 |
| 91 | 4 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £116,000 | £134,396 |
| 54 | 17 May 2021 | Terraced | £124,500 | £157,298 |
| 114 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| 34 Mearsbeck | 9 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £79,000 | £99,812 |
| 68 | 11 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £115,000 | £145,296 |
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 Sefton Road, Morecambe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 Sefton Road | £25,000 (2001) | £110,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 80 Sefton Road | £39,950 (2000) | £150,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 88 Sefton Road | £38,000 (2002) | £150,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| 42 MEARSBECK Sefton Road | £38,000 (2001) | £96,500 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 83 Sefton Road | £99,950 (2005) | £130,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| 71 Sefton Road | £40,000 (1995) | £135,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 92 Sefton Road | £45,000 (2002) | £150,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 12 MEARSBECK Sefton Road | £35,000 (1997) | £87,500 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| 34 MEARSBECK Sefton Road | £92,500 (2007) | £92,000 (2023) | 0.0% | -3.0% |
| 94 Sefton Road | £22,500 (2002) | £139,000 (2023) | +9.1% | +6.1% |
| FLAT 4 20 Sefton Road | £38,500 (2005) | £52,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -0.9% |
| 2 MEARSBECK Sefton Road | £33,000 (1998) | £61,000 (2022) | +2.6% | +0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sefton Road, Morecambe 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 | 113 | 61.1% | £78,000 | £11,000 – £150,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 70 | 37.8% | £60,000 | £12,000 – £162,500 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 1.1% | £53,000 | £53,000 – £110,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sefton Road, Morecambe
70 of the sales on record are leasehold and 115 freehold — 37.8% 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 £58,500 and the median freehold sale £78,000 — a gap of +33.3%. 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 | 70 | 37.8% | £58,500 |
| Freehold | 115 | 62.2% | £78,000 |
| New build | 6 | 3.2% | £33,500 |
| Existing home | 179 | 96.8% | £68,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.7%. 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 19 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 Sefton Road, Morecambe
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 £65,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.97% 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 LA3, 167 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 54 violent, 7 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 142,934 residents the 2021 census counted in Lancaster, that is 1.17 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 Sefton Road, Morecambe
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 LA3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Leadership Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 726 |
| Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 428 |
| Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 321 |
| Morecambe and Heysham Grosvenor Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 320 |
| Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 230 |
| Mossgate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 206 |
| West End Primary School | Primary | Community school | 197 |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 182 |
| Overton St Helen's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 161 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Morecambe Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 2.9 km |
| Heysham Port Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Bare Lane Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
Section 09
How Sefton Road, Morecambe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sefton Road, Morecambe sits below that national figure — -58.7%.
Within Morecambe the street ranks 660 of 748 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £97,950 (-33.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £803 per square metre, across 1 of the 185 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 £11,000 to £162,500. 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.
Sefton Road, Morecambe 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
- Heysham Road£100,000 median
- Sandylands Promenade£83,500 median
- Balmoral Road£80,000 median
- Middleton Road£98,000 median
- Fairfield Road£95,000 median
- Meldon Road£92,000 median
- Oxcliffe Road£96,000 median
- Mears Beck Close£98,134 median
- Norton Road£97,950 median
- Marine Road West£67,500 median
- Hadrian Road£126,000 median
- Stanley Road£75,000 median
- Main Street£132,000 median
- Granville Road£72,000 median
- Kingsway£108,000 median
- Chapel View£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 15 Sefton Road6 sales
- 42, MEARSBECK Sefton Road5 sales
- 54 Sefton Road5 sales
- 37 Sefton Road5 sales
- 88 Sefton Road4 sales
- 83 Sefton Road4 sales
- 92 Sefton Road4 sales
- 94 Sefton Road4 sales
- 14, MEARSBECK Sefton Road4 sales
- 80 Sefton Road3 sales
- 12, MEARSBECK Sefton Road3 sales
- 34, MEARSBECK Sefton Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 20 Sefton Road3 sales
- 21 Sefton Road3 sales
- 38 Sefton Road3 sales
- 114 Sefton Road3 sales
- 21, MEARSBECK Sefton Road3 sales
- 36 Sefton Road3 sales
- 84 Sefton Road3 sales
- 89 Sefton Road3 sales
- 58 Sefton Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 22 Sefton Road3 sales
- 24 Sefton Road3 sales
- 56 Sefton Road3 sales
Back to Morecambe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sefton Road, Morecambe?
The median price paid in Sefton Road, Morecambe across every sale on the register is £65,000. 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 Sefton Road, Morecambe?
185 sales are on record for Sefton Road, Morecambe, the most recent completing on 28 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sefton Road, Morecambe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +10.7% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sefton Road, Morecambe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £94,178, set in 2005. 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 Sefton Road, Morecambe?
£803 per square metre, from the 1 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 28 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, “Sefton Road, Morecambe 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.