Homes currently available for sale or rent
Latest changes
April 2021 - 2 Forgebank Walk & 35 Mill Lane - sold
Mar 2021 - 37 Mill Lane for sale
Feb 2021 - 27 Forgebank Walk for sale; 20 Forgebank Walk under offer
Note on joining the community
For the 35 leasehold homes (1-31 Forgebank Walk and 39-47 Mill Lane), you must have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing before you can complete a leasehold or rental agreement. For the six freehold homes (27-37 Mill Lane), there’s no requirement to be a member: if you wish to join, you can apply to join before completion or later at any point if you wish.
So, for a leasehold home, as well as negotiating with the home owner in the normal way, you must also apply to be an member of the community. Please read the whole of the Join section to make sure you understand what it means to join the community, how to get to know us, and how to apply. Please contact our Membership Team join@lancastercohousing.org.uk to start that process as early as possible in order to avoid holding up the purchase or rental agreement later on.
Homes for sale (all are built to Passiv House standard)
- 5 Forgebank Walk (leasehold - 999 years from 2012): £260,000
3 bedroom mid-terrace home for sale. Owner relocating. Details here. Contact the owners Lucy and Huw lucyandhuw@hotmail.co.uk
The prospective buyer must first have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing.
- 20 Forgebank Walk (leasehold - 999 years from 2012): £225,000 UNDER OFFER
2 bedroom mid-terrace home for sale. Owner relocating. Details here. Contact the owner Jan jnmskll@gmail.com
The prospective buyer must first have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing.
- 27 Forgebank Walk (leasehold - 999 years from 2012): £285,000
3 bedroom mid-terrace home for sale (currently converted to a 2 bed and could easily be converted back again). Details here. Owner relocating. Contact the owners Arthur and Doreen a.shaw27@ntlworld.com
The prospective buyer must first have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing.
- 37 Mill Lane: Freehold. £280,000
3 bedroom end terrace for sale. Owners relocating. High specs, full length balcony, landscaped garden and parking space.
The buyer may apply to join Lancaster Cohousing at any time before or after buying.
Contact the owners, Helen and Francis on 07730759682 or email at helenroe@email.com
- 39 Mill Lane (leasehold - 999 years from 2012). Offers around £349,950.
Flexible home on three floors . Details here.
Contact the owners, Janey and Dora at riverlune@gmail.com.
The prospective buyer must first have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing.
Homes for rent - none at the moment but...
If there is no home available…
We are always very interested to hear from people who want to buy, rent or buy to rent. If there is currently no home that meets your needs, but you’d like to stay in touch in case one comes up in the future, please ask our Membership Team about our waiting pool. In the email it would be helpful to know a bit about you, what interests you about cohousing, where you're living at the moment, the ages of the people in your household, and whether you're interested in buying or renting.
You may also like to check availability in other cohousing projects on the UK Cohousing Network website. In particular, there’s a new separate senior cohousing project happening in Halton for over 55s: a site has been identified, initial plans drawn up, and hopefully building will start in 2021.
Notes on house prices at LCH
- Cohousing and passiv eco homes ...
… normally sell for more than equivalent, more conventional, homes because of the added value of the facilities that come with them. It is notoriously difficult to put a figure on this added value, but, to give you some idea, you can compare local house prices for previous sales in Halton (eg on the Right Move page).
- Differences in first-time sale prices in Rightmove, Zoopla etc
When the houses were sold for the first time in 2012, the prices varied. Some key people who had contributed very significantly to the creation of LCH paid a reduced price to take account of the ‘sweat equity’ value they had put in; others who had taken significant financial risk over the life of the project received a discount. So, if the first sale price of a unit seems different from other similar units, please contact us for more information.
