Sold Price History


Main Street, St Bees house prices

Main Street, St Bees house prices are built from 221 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +16.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.7%.

Median price paid

£100,000

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+16.3%

Change in real terms

-15.7%

Median per m²

£1,458

HM Land Registry221 sales41 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Apr 2026

Section 01

How Main Street, St Bees prices moved

The chart tracks the median Main Street, St Bees 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.

Main Street, St Bees house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s3£48,000£106,583
2000s7£83,500£152,112
2010s6£125,000£176,250
2020s5£137,500£140,489
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, St Bees is £240,000 in 2022; the lowest is £32,500 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £137,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +24.1% — about +0.72% 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: +16.3% in cash against -15.7% 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.

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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
1923 Apr 2026Detached£183,000£183,000
116a23 Jan 2026Terraced£190,000£190,000
11117 Nov 2025Terraced£120,000£122,609
Manx Horizon7 Nov 2025Detached£470,000£480,217
2122 Oct 2025Terraced£145,000£148,152
259 Jun 2025Terraced£127,500£130,272
969 May 2025Terraced£130,000£132,826
4631 Jan 2025Terraced£210,000£214,565
8511 Jun 2024Semi-detached£155,000£163,097
3320 Dec 2023Terraced£270,000£291,724
577 Dec 2023Terraced£107,000£115,609
261 Nov 2023Terraced£144,000£155,586
13217 Oct 2023Terraced£124,000£133,977
6723 Jun 2023Terraced£189,000£204,207
3124 Mar 2023Terraced£245,000£264,713
11218 Nov 2022Terraced£103,000£119,334
279 Sep 2022Semi-detached£325,000£376,541
648 Aug 2022Terraced£106,995£123,963
116a30 May 2022Terraced£240,000£278,061
10328 Jan 2022Terraced£310,000£359,162
12426 Nov 2021Terraced£290,000£366,398
8130 Sep 2021Semi-detached£155,000£195,833
8028 Sep 2021Semi-detached£135,000£170,565
2617 Sep 2021Terraced£110,000£138,978
10019 Jul 2021Terraced£77,250£97,601
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Main Street, St Bees values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
19 Main Street£196,000 (2010)£183,000 (2026)-0.4%-3.3%
116A Main Street£46,000 (2015)£190,000 (2026)+13.8%+10.3%
111 Main Street£42,000 (1995)£120,000 (2025)+3.6%+0.9%
MANX HORIZON Main Street£270,000 (2011)£470,000 (2025)+4.0%+1.1%
21 Main Street£150,000 (2010)£145,000 (2025)-0.2%-3.2%
25 Main Street£32,000 (1997)£127,500 (2025)+5.1%+2.4%
46 Main Street£55,000 (1995)£210,000 (2025)+4.6%+1.9%
85 Main Street£99,000 (2006)£155,000 (2024)+2.5%-0.4%
33 Main Street£203,000 (2004)£270,000 (2023)+1.5%-1.3%
57 Main Street£81,000 (2005)£107,000 (2023)+1.6%-1.3%
26 Main Street£63,000 (2003)£144,000 (2023)+4.2%+1.3%
132 Main Street£28,000 (1996)£124,000 (2023)+5.7%+3.0%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced17780.1%£95,000£10,000 – £460,000
Semi-detached2410.9%£110,000£36,000 – £325,000
Detached146.3%£227,000£60,000 – £536,000
Flat or maisonette62.7%£37,000£9,000 – £135,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Main Street, St Bees

219 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2 freehold — 99.1% 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 £99,000 and the median freehold sale £378,800 — a gap of +282.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold21999.1%£99,000
Freehold20.9%£378,800
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

A further 8 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 09

How Main Street, St Bees compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, St Bees sits below that national figure — -36.5%.

Within St Bees the street ranks 27 of 33 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £155,500 (-35.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,458 per square metre, across 41 of the 221 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 £9,000 to £536,000. 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to St Bees house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Main Street, St Bees?

The median price paid in Main Street, St Bees across every sale on the register is £100,000. 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 Main Street, St Bees?

221 sales are on record for Main Street, St Bees, the most recent completing on 23 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Main Street, St Bees house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +16.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Main Street, St Bees house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £240,000, 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 Main Street, St Bees?

£1,458 per square metre, from the 41 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 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, “Main Street, St Bees 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.