Homes currently available for sale or rent
All homes are built to Passiv House standard.
For notifications whenever any new buying or renting opportunities come up on the website, please join our mailing list. You can also enrol on one of our tours to learn more or email our Membership Team to ask about joining our waiting pool.
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.
Homes for sale
- 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@hotmail.com. The prospective buyer must first have been accepted as a member of Lancaster Cohousing.
Homes for rent
- None at the moment.
There is information about renting here.
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 soon.
Notes 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. So, for a leasehold home, as well as negotiating with the homeowner in the normal way, you must also apply to be a member of the community.
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.
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 (e.g., 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.
