Foster Street, Penrith house prices

Foster Street, Penrith house prices are built from 120 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £72,500. Across the 11 years from 1996 to 2007 the median moved +256.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +185.4%.

HM Land Registry120 sales40 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Foster Street, Penrith house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2007. 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 Foster Street, Penrith is £131,750 in 2007; the lowest is £37,000 in 1995. Across the full 13-year record the cash median has moved from £37,000 to £131,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £82,157, so the real change over the whole record is +178.8% — about +8.92% 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: +256.1% in cash against +185.4% 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 Foster Street, Penrith values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 117 freehold — 2.5% 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 £22,500 and the median freehold sale £74,000 — a gap of +228.9%. 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 — -33.8%. 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 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 £72,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.37% 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 CA11, 14 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 7 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 11.9 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.

13 state and independent schools have a CA11 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. 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. Foster Street, Penrith sits below that national figure — -54.0%.

Within Penrith the street ranks 522 of 552 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £156,000 (-53.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £740 per square metre, across 40 of the 120 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 £14,500 to £575,000. 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.

Foster Street, Penrith 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

• Wordsworth Street£127,251 median
• Graham Street£139,975 median
• Bridge Lane£130,000 median
• Roper Street£122,750 median
• Norfolk Place£73,250 median
• Macadam Gardens£132,000 median
• Primrose Drive£151,995 median
• Brougham Street£107,500 median
• Musgrave Street£148,000 median
• Penny Hill Park£143,000 median
• Croft Avenue£170,000 median
• Arthur Street£195,000 median
• Brentfield Way£130,000 median
• Meadow Croft£136,000 median
• Salkeld Road£166,000 median
• Tulip Gardens£222,995 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 5, NEW BUILDINGS Foster Street6 sales
• 40 Foster Street6 sales
• 1 Foster Street6 sales
• 2, LOWTHER HOUSE Foster Street5 sales
• 28 Foster Street5 sales
• 32 Foster Street5 sales
• 44 Foster Street4 sales
• 35 Foster Street4 sales
• 8, NEW BUILDINGS Foster Street4 sales
• 6 Foster Street4 sales
• 5 Foster Street4 sales
• 3, LOWTHER HOUSE Foster Street4 sales
• 1, LOWTHER HOUSE Foster Street4 sales
• 29 Foster Street3 sales
• 45 Foster Street3 sales
• 42 Foster Street3 sales
• 37A Foster Street3 sales
• 17 Foster Street3 sales
• 2 Foster Street2 sales
• 3 Foster Street2 sales
• 27 Foster Street2 sales
• 36 Foster Street2 sales
• 4 Foster Street2 sales
• 12 Foster Street2 sales

Back to Penrith house prices.

What is the average house price in Foster Street, Penrith?

The median price paid in Foster Street, Penrith across every sale on the register is £72,500. 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 Foster Street, Penrith?

120 sales are on record for Foster Street, Penrith, the most recent completing on 12 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Foster Street, Penrith house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +256.1% between 1996 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +185.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Foster Street, Penrith house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £131,750, set in 2007. 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 Foster Street, Penrith?

£740 per square metre, from the 40 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 12 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, “Foster Street, Penrith 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.