That is the middle of 115 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 5 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.
115 homes sold in three years: 34 detached houses, 48 semi-detached houses and 33 terraced houses.
Detached houses£220K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£195K–£280K
Last 12 months
£209K14 sold
New build
£313K
Semi-detached houses£158K
median sale · 48 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£130K–£171K
Last 12 months
£163K18 sold
New build
£171K
Terraced houses£110K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£86K–£130K
Last 12 months
£115K7 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 42% of sales
Detached houses30%
Semi-detached houses42%
Terraced houses29%
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 Longtown’s homes sold for between £120K and £200K
One sale in ten was under £95K and one in ten over £260K. 86% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £162,000, sits in the £150–200K band
115 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £34,000 in 1995 to £170,995 in the last 12 months (£108,997 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
39 sales in the last 12 months, against 64 in 2021, the busiest year, and 18 in 2010. Sales fell by 35% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 16%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 52% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Longtown costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Longtown, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£55K
£71K
£140K
£165K
£160K
£150K
£209K
Semi-detached houses
£33K
£42K
£92K
£103K
£122K
£119K
£163K
Terraced houses
£34K
—
£77K
£85K
£95K
£98K
£115K
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
33% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
239 new homes have been sold in Longtown since 1995; the share peaked at 47% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £204,995
against £147,500 for a home sold on, 39% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.9% sold leasehold in Longtown. 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
St Michaels Drive is Longtown’s busiest street, with 16 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 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
St Michaels Drive
CA6
16
£162,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Fawn Wood Way
CA6
12
£170,995
Mixed · new builds
3
Waverley Road
CA6
11
£380,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
4
Sycamore Drive
CA6
6
£162,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Lovers Lane
CA6
5
£125,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Albert Street
CA6
5
£120,000
Mostly terraced houses
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.
Longtown’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Longtown
What is the average house price in Longtown?
The median home in Longtown sold for £162,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 115 standard sales (£170,995 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £220,000, semi-detached houses £157,500 and terraced houses £110,000.
Are house prices going up in Longtown?
The median was £177,000 in 2025, up 22% on 2024 (£145,000), and £170,995 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 Longtown each year?
39 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 44 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Longtown?
New homes sold for a median £204,995 over three years, against £147,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 20% of sales.
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.