The median home in St Bees sells for £214,000
That is the middle of 71 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 3.4 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.
A third of St Bees’s sales are terraced houses
71 homes sold in three years: 25 detached houses, 12 semi-detached houses, 26 terraced houses and 8 flats and maisonettes.
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £246K–£470K
- Last 12 months
- £312K6 sold
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £193K–£280K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £140K–£235K
- Last 12 months
- £175K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes: 8 sold, median £168K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
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.
Half of St Bees’s homes sold for between £165K and £319K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £470K. 59% sold for under £250K.
The median, £214,000, sits in the £200–250K band
71 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
The typical home costs 3.4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £58,975 in 1995 to £198,750 in the last 12 months (£189,950 in 2019).
Fewer homes sell than in most years
18 sales in the last 12 months, against 71 in 2007, the busiest year, and 15 in 2012. Sales fell by 66% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 21%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 65% more sales than 2020.
St Bees costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: St Bees, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
| 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Last 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached houses | £69K | £112K | £266K | £198K | £288K | £298K | £312K |
| Terraced houses | £51K | £39K | £96K | £115K | £150K | £173K | £175K |
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.
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
98 new homes have been sold in St Bees since 1995; the share peaked at 41% in 2005.
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
90% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 89% sold leasehold in St Bees. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Fairladies is St Bees’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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.
| # | Street | Postcode area | Sales | Median | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairladies | CA27 | 15 | £170,000 | Mixed |
| 2 | Main Street | CA27 | 13 | £145,000 | Mostly terraced houses |
| 3 | Sea Mill Lane | CA27 | 7 | £273,000 | Mostly detached houses |
| 4 | Seacote Gardens | CA27 | 6 | £235,500 | 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.
St Bees’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Egremont, Whitehaven and Cleator Moor.
| Town | Miles | Median | Sold, 12 mo | Since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Bees | — | £214K | 18 | +17% |
| Egremont | 2.3 | £120K | 68 | +30% |
| Whitehaven | 3.5 | £160K | 343 | +33% |
| Cleator Moor | 3.7 | £126K | 74 | +29% |
| Moresby Parks | 5.2 | £143K | 16 | +9% |
| Frizington | 5.4 | £91K | 24 | +14% |
| Distington | 7.6 | £108K | 11 | — |
| Seascale | 7.7 | £185K | 28 | +23% |
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 St Bees
What is the average house price in St Bees?
The median home in St Bees sold for £214,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 71 standard sales (£198,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £345,000, semi-detached houses £250,000, terraced houses £182,500 and flats and maisonettes £168,475.
Are house prices going up in St Bees?
The median was £182,500 in 2025, down 28% on 2024 (£255,000), and £198,750 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 St Bees each year?
18 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 26 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.
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