That is the middle of 816 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 4.6 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.
57% of Penwortham’s sales are semi-detached houses
816 homes sold in three years: 197 detached houses, 464 semi-detached houses, 112 terraced houses and 43 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£338K
median sale · 197 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£412K
Last 12 months
£343K47 sold
Semi-detached houses£219K
median sale · 464 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£270K
Last 12 months
£229K134 sold
Terraced houses£160K
median sale · 112 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£134K–£185K
Last 12 months
£177K30 sold
Flats and maisonettes£126K
median sale · 43 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£140K
Last 12 months
£130K13 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 57% of sales
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses57%
Terraced houses14%
Flats and maisonettes5%
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 Penwortham’s homes sold for between £170K and £295K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £392K. 59% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £223,175, sits in the £200–250K band
816 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.6 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £231,000 in the last 12 months (£180,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
224 sales in the last 12 months, against 500 in 2000, the busiest year, and 222 in 2008. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 32% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Penwortham costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Penwortham, 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
£82K
£116K
£216K
£210K
£225K
£265K
£343K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£60K
£139K
£145K
£156K
£173K
£229K
Terraced houses
£43K
£48K
£110K
£122K
£118K
£123K
£177K
Flats and maisonettes
£29K
£39K
£85K
£80K
£79K
£113K
£130K
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
540 new homes have been sold in Penwortham since 1995; the share peaked at 23% in 1999.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
7% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.5% sold leasehold in Penwortham. 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
Cop Lane is Penwortham’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
64 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Cop Lane
PR1
22
£204,975
Mixed
2
Leyland Road
PR1
19
£187,500
Mixed
3
Liverpool Road
PR1
15
£310,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Woodville Road
PR1
14
£172,475
Mixed
5
Marsh Way
PR1
14
£149,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Whitefield Road
PR1
13
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Howick Park Drive
PR1
13
£243,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Cloughfield
PR1
13
£165,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Crownlee
PR1
12
£175,000
Mixed
10
Queensway
PR1
11
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Stanley Grove
PR1
11
£245,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Buckingham Avenue
PR1
10
£185,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Margaret Road
PR1
10
£175,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Broad Oak Lane
PR1
8
£347,500
Mixed
15
Priory Crescent
PR1
8
£310,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Hollinhurst Avenue: £650,000
Penwortham median£223K
Hollinhurst Avenue£650K
Kingsway£540K
Park Lane£468K
Round Wood£465K
Broad Oak Lane£348K
Cheapest streets
Meadow Bank: £110,000
Penwortham median£223K
Meadow Bank£110K
Woodcroft Close£125K
Kingsfold Drive£130K
Bloomfield Grange£134K
Marsh Way£149K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of 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.
Across Lancashire
Penwortham is the 24th most expensive of 65 towns in Lancashire
Penwortham is in the middle of Lancashire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Penwortham
What is the average house price in Penwortham?
The median home in Penwortham sold for £223,175 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 816 standard sales (£231,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £337,600, semi-detached houses £219,000, terraced houses £159,975 and flats and maisonettes £126,000.
Are house prices going up in Penwortham?
The median was £225,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£220,000), and £231,000 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 Penwortham each year?
224 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 322 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Penwortham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Hollinhurst Avenue (PR1, £650,000), Kingsway (PR1, £540,000) and Park Lane (PR1, £468,000).
Is Penwortham expensive for Lancashire?
Penwortham is the 24th most expensive of 65 towns of 2,500 or more in Lancashire by median sale price.
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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