Housing in Bowness-on-Windermere · HM Land Registry
The median home in Bowness-on-Windermere sells for £400,000
That is the middle of 105 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.4 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
39% of Bowness-on-Windermere’s sales are flats and maisonettes
105 homes sold in three years: 33 detached houses, 15 semi-detached houses, 16 terraced houses and 41 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£625K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£450K–£780K
Last 12 months
£665K16 sold
Semi-detached houses£385K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£335K–£525K
Terraced houses£386K
median sale · 16 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£355K–£525K
Last 12 months
£445K6 sold
Flats and maisonettes£260K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£374K
Last 12 months
£223K9 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses14%
Terraced houses15%
Flats and maisonettes39%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Bowness-on-Windermere’s homes sold for between £270K and £545K
One sale in ten was under £205K and one in ten over £785K. 22% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £400,000, sits in the £400–500K band
105 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £67,250 in 1995 to £430,000 in the last 12 months (£268,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
33 sales in the last 12 months, against 121 in 2002, the busiest year, and 33 in 2024. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bowness-on-Windermere costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bowness-on-Windermere, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£161K
£188K
£384K
£405K
£425K
£552K
£665K
Terraced houses
£68K
£96K
£245K
£230K
£265K
£335K
£445K
Flats and maisonettes
£41K
£89K
£145K
£192K
£143K
£225K
£223K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
3% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
90 new homes have been sold in Bowness-on-Windermere since 1995; the share peaked at 15% in 2006.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
42% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.7% sold leasehold in Bowness-on-Windermere. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Quarry Rigg is Bowness-on-Windermere’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Quarry Rigg
LA23
10
£210,350
Mostly flats
2
Windward Way
LA23
8
£401,000
Mostly flats
3
South Craig
LA23
7
£430,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Windermere Park
LA23
5
£700,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Brantfell Road
LA23
5
£365,000
Mostly flats
6
Craig Walk
LA23
5
£360,000
Mixed
7
Lake Road
LA23
5
£190,000
Mostly flats
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Bowness-on-Windermere
What is the average house price in Bowness-on-Windermere?
The median home in Bowness-on-Windermere sold for £400,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 105 standard sales (£430,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £625,000, semi-detached houses £385,000, terraced houses £385,900 and flats and maisonettes £260,000.
Are house prices going up in Bowness-on-Windermere?
The median was £386,500 in 2025, down 3% on 2024 (£400,000), and £430,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Bowness-on-Windermere each year?
33 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 56 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.