FY5 vs LA22: house prices per square metre compared
FY5 (Anchorsholme) has a median of £2,150 per m² against £5,030 in LA22 (Grasmere). LA22 is the more expensive of the two: FY5 is 57.2% cheaper per m². The figures come from 725 and 30 matched sales in the last 12 months of HM Land Registry data.
£440,000, the median sale price in LA22, buys about 88 m² there and about 205 m² in FY5, a difference of 117 m² at each district’s own median. Over the 10 years to Q1 2026 in FY5 and Q3 2025 in LA22, FY5 moved +3.5% a year against LA22 at +2.7% a year, before inflation.
Sales in the last 12 months.
| Measure | FY5High confidence Anchorsholme, Thornton-Cleveleys £2,150median per m² | LA22Low confidence Grasmere, Ambleside £5,030median per m² | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price per m² | £2,150 | £5,030 | +133.7% |
| Median sale price | £178,000 | £440,000 | +147.2% |
| Middle 60% of salesp20 to p80 | £1,700–£2,680 | Too few matched sales | |
| Sales (last 12 months) | 747 | 43 | −704 |
| With a matched floor areaThe denominator behind each median per unit area | 725 | 30 | −695 |
| Mean floor area (matched sales) | 89 m² | 97 m² | +8.5% |
| Annual change over 9.6–9.8 years | +3.5% a year | +2.7% a year | −0.8 pts |
| By property typeMedian price per m² for each property type sold in the last 12 months. | |||
| Detached | £2,490n = 149 | no sales | n/a |
| Semi-detached | £2,150n = 440 | no sales | n/a |
| Terraced | £1,800n = 87 | no sales | n/a |
| Flat | £1,830n = 49 | no sales | n/a |
| Difference: FY5 minus LA22. | |||
| All FY5 sold prices | All LA22 sold prices |
Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.
Frequently asked questions
Why compare FY5 and LA22 on price per square metre rather than price?
A raw sale price mostly reflects how big homes are; price per square metre corrects for size, so FY5 and LA22 can be compared on what a buyer actually gets for the money. Both figures here are medians of sold price divided by EPC floor area, from HM Land Registry sales, computed the same way for both areas.
Why do FY5 and LA22 show different numbers of sales?
The two districts are different sizes and trade at different rates, and each figure is computed over the matched sales its own area produced in its stated window. The matched-sale count is printed beside each median because it is that median's own denominator.
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