Leathwaite, Whitehaven house prices

Leathwaite, Whitehaven house prices are built from 92 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,500. Across the 16 years from 2008 to 2024 the median moved +23.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.5%.

HM Land Registry92 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median Leathwaite, Whitehaven house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 Leathwaite, Whitehaven is £232,500 in 2024; the lowest is £64,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £64,000 to £232,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £142,110, so the real change over the whole record is +72.2% — about +1.89% 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: +23.7% in cash against -22.5% 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.

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 Leathwaite, Whitehaven values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 0.0% 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.

A further 1 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 Cumberland, 37.3% of 137,831 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% 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 Cumberland at £670 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £772 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £167,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.80% 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 CA28, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 7 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

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.

16 state and independent schools have a CA28 postcode: 14 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. Leathwaite, Whitehaven sits above that national figure — +6.3%.

Within Whitehaven the street ranks 67 of 384 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £95,000 (+76.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,721 per square metre, across 35 of the 92 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 £15,000 to £292,000. 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.

Leathwaite, Whitehaven sits in Cumberland, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cumberland at 4.2 times median local earnings of £42,808 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

• Holly Bank£99,000 median
• High Road£86,000 median
• Moresby Parks Road£66,505 median
• Laurel Bank£136,975 median
• Buttermere Avenue£65,000 median
• Victoria Road£167,250 median
• Ullswater Avenue£87,250 median
• Main Street£62,000 median
• Winchester Drive£114,000 median
• Bransty Road£100,000 median
• Valley Park£146,500 median
• Duke Street£143,500 median
• Balmoral Road£128,500 median
• Meadow Road£74,000 median
• Foundry Road£64,000 median
• Whinlatter Road£87,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 59 Leathwaite6 sales
• 28 Leathwaite5 sales
• 73 Leathwaite4 sales
• 17 Leathwaite4 sales
• 66 Leathwaite4 sales
• 55 Leathwaite4 sales
• 23 Leathwaite4 sales
• 7 Leathwaite3 sales
• 24 Leathwaite3 sales
• 37 Leathwaite3 sales
• 50 Leathwaite3 sales
• 33 Leathwaite3 sales
• 44 Leathwaite3 sales
• 3 Leathwaite3 sales
• 36 Leathwaite3 sales
• 12 Leathwaite2 sales
• 6 Leathwaite2 sales
• 74 Leathwaite2 sales
• 4 Leathwaite2 sales
• 43 Leathwaite2 sales
• 9 Leathwaite2 sales

Back to Whitehaven house prices.

What is the average house price in Leathwaite, Whitehaven?

The median price paid in Leathwaite, Whitehaven across every sale on the register is £167,500. 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 Leathwaite, Whitehaven?

92 sales are on record for Leathwaite, Whitehaven, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Leathwaite, Whitehaven house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +23.7% between 2008 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Leathwaite, Whitehaven house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £232,500, 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 Leathwaite, Whitehaven?

£1,721 per square metre, from the 35 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 17 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, “Leathwaite, Whitehaven 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.