That is the middle of 75 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.
45% of Milnthorpe’s sales are semi-detached houses
75 homes sold in three years: 20 detached houses, 34 semi-detached houses, 19 terraced houses and 2 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£375K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£323K–£400K
Last 12 months
£380K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£239K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£265K
Last 12 months
£259K14 sold
Terraced houses£210K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£234K
Last 12 months
£215K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 2 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 45% of sales
Detached houses27%
Semi-detached houses45%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes3%
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 Milnthorpe’s homes sold for between £200K and £320K
One sale in ten was under £160K and one in ten over £395K. 55% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £235,000, sits in the £200–250K band
75 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 £49,950 in 1995 to £251,000 in the last 12 months (£174,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 59 in 2000, the busiest year, and 8 in 2008. Sales fell by 25% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 50% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Milnthorpe costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Milnthorpe, 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
—
£135K
£300K
—
—
—
£380K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£60K
£154K
£138K
£150K
£218K
£259K
Terraced houses
£50K
£58K
£119K
£132K
£145K
£154K
£215K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
52 new homes have been sold in Milnthorpe since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
4% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.4% sold leasehold in Milnthorpe. 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
Summerville Road is Milnthorpe’s busiest street, with 6 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Summerville Road
LA7
6
£243,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Pickles Field
LA7
5
£210,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Ryleyfield Road
LA7
5
£186,000
Mostly semi-detached 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.
Milnthorpe’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 Milnthorpe
What is the average house price in Milnthorpe?
The median home in Milnthorpe sold for £235,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 75 standard sales (£251,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £375,000, semi-detached houses £239,000 and terraced houses £209,500.
Are house prices going up in Milnthorpe?
The median was £260,000 in 2025, up 11% on 2024 (£235,000), and £251,000 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 Milnthorpe each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 28 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.