Thornton Road, Morecambe house prices are built from 165 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £75,000. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved +39.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.3%.
Median price paid
£75,000
Change in cash, 2007–2023
+39.5%
Change in real terms
-13.3%
Median per m²
£953
HM Land Registry165 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Thornton Road, Morecambe prices moved
The chart tracks the median Thornton Road, Morecambe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 4 | £35,000 | £77,717 |
| 2000s | 8 | £54,000 | £98,372 |
| 2020s | 4 | £120,000 | £122,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Thornton Road, Morecambe is £184,875 in 2023; the lowest is £27,500 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £184,875.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,583, so the real change over the whole record is +87.4% — about +2.27% 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: +39.5% in cash against -13.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 26 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £276,500 | £282,511 |
| 78 | 6 May 2025 | Terraced | £269,000 | £274,848 |
| 106 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £197,000 | £201,283 |
| 94 | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 27 | 5 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 61 | 1 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £202,556 |
| 86 | 28 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £86,000 | £92,920 |
| Flat 3 130 | 20 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £43,000 | £46,460 |
| 51 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £184,000 | £198,805 |
| 158 | 7 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £207,500 | £224,195 |
| 95 | 6 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £202,000 | £218,253 |
| 128 | 11 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £185,750 | £200,695 |
| 100 | 12 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| Flat 2 130 | 16 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £58,000 | £67,198 |
| Flat 2 119 | 1 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £45,000 | £52,136 |
| 42 | 22 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 114 | 25 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £107,000 | £123,969 |
| 62 | 16 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 91 | 26 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £182,250 | £230,262 |
| 121a | 16 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £64,500 | £81,492 |
| 79 | 6 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £145,296 |
| 93 | 26 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £158,000 | £199,624 |
| 133 | 16 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £172,000 | £222,700 |
| 101 | 11 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £194,215 |
| 77 | 8 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £156,000 | £201,983 |
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 Thornton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 Thornton Road | £135,000 (2005) | £276,500 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 78 Thornton Road | £102,000 (2005) | £269,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 61 Thornton Road | £65,000 (2002) | £192,500 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 86 Thornton Road | £120,000 (2004) | £86,000 (2023) | -1.7% | -4.5% |
| FLAT 3 130 Thornton Road | £45,000 (2004) | £43,000 (2023) | -0.2% | -3.0% |
| 51 Thornton Road | £100,000 (2004) | £184,000 (2023) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 158 Thornton Road | £135,000 (2007) | £207,500 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 128 Thornton Road | £90,000 (2006) | £185,750 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 2 130 Thornton Road | £47,500 (2004) | £58,000 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 2 119 Thornton Road | £52,500 (2004) | £45,000 (2022) | -0.9% | -3.4% |
| 42 Thornton Road | £128,000 (2003) | £270,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
| 62 Thornton Road | £44,000 (1998) | £120,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thornton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 77 | 46.7% | £120,000 | £27,000 – £276,500 |
| Terraced | 42 | 25.5% | £70,000 | £16,000 – £269,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 38 | 23.0% | £45,000 | £18,500 – £107,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 4.8% | £82,500 | £35,000 – £219,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Thornton Road, Morecambe
37 of the sales on record are leasehold and 128 freehold — 22.4% 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 £46,000 and the median freehold sale £109,000 — a gap of +137.0%. 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 | 37 | 22.4% | £46,000 |
| Freehold | 128 | 77.6% | £109,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.6% | £21,950 |
| Existing home | 164 | 99.4% | £76,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -71.1%. 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 27 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 Thornton 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 £75,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.98% 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 LA4, 375 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 141 violent, 21 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 70 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.
Against the 142,934 residents the 2021 census counted in Lancaster, that is 2.62 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 Thornton 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.
8 state and independent schools have a LA4 postcode: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morecambe Bay Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,045 |
| Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 491 |
| Lancaster Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 478 |
| Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 413 |
| Great Wood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 406 |
| Morecambe Bay Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 276 |
| Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 165 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 150 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Morecambe Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Bare Lane Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Lancaster Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 5.7 km |
Section 09
How Thornton Road, Morecambe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thornton Road, Morecambe sits below that national figure — -52.4%.
Within Morecambe the street ranks 590 of 748 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £97,950 (-23.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £953 per square metre, across 36 of the 165 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 £16,000 to £276,500. 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.
Thornton 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
- Marine Road East£90,000 median
- Lancaster Road£103,000 median
- Westminster Road£74,950 median
- Bare Lane£146,000 median
- West End Road£74,950 median
- Hampsfell Drive£76,500 median
- Oak Avenue£140,000 median
- Schola Green Lane£72,500 median
- Chatsworth Road£72,000 median
- Broadway£245,000 median
- Low Lane£140,000 median
- Albert Road£75,000 median
- Clarence Court£89,450 median
- Beaufort Road£137,950 median
- Fairhope Avenue£142,500 median
- Euston Road£64,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 78 Thornton Road4 sales
- 126 Thornton Road4 sales
- 59 Thornton Road3 sales
- 61 Thornton Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, 130 Thornton Road3 sales
- 158 Thornton Road3 sales
- 62 Thornton Road3 sales
- 133 Thornton Road3 sales
- 77 Thornton Road3 sales
- 85 Thornton Road3 sales
- 66 Thornton Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, 119 Thornton Road3 sales
- 52 Thornton Road3 sales
- 24 Thornton Road3 sales
- 154 Thornton Road3 sales
- 86 Thornton Road2 sales
- 51 Thornton Road2 sales
- 128 Thornton Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, 130 Thornton Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, 119 Thornton Road2 sales
- 42 Thornton Road2 sales
- 121A Thornton Road2 sales
- 101 Thornton Road2 sales
- FLAT 1, 20 Thornton Road2 sales
Back to Morecambe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Thornton Road, Morecambe?
The median price paid in Thornton Road, Morecambe across every sale on the register is £75,000. 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 Thornton Road, Morecambe?
165 sales are on record for Thornton Road, Morecambe, the most recent completing on 26 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Thornton Road, Morecambe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.5% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Thornton Road, Morecambe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £184,875, set in 2023. 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 Thornton Road, Morecambe?
£953 per square metre, from the 36 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 26 Sep 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, “Thornton 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.