Liverpool market report L
The standing L (Liverpool) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 357,572 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the L postcode area (Liverpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the L postcode area (Liverpool) is £210,000, from 4,031 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £241,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 357,572 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The figures for L centred on Liverpool run across 41 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where L sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in L
Take the 4,031 registered 2026 sales in L and the middle price, the median, is £210,000. The mean lands at £241,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in L
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L costs about £2,390 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L 26% below the country at large.
L's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 4,031 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 10,293 |
| 2024 | £196,000 | £208,388 | 10,051 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 9,662 |
| 2022 | £182,500 | £214,002 | 11,301 |
| 2021 | £177,000 | £224,105 | 12,770 |
| 2020 | £162,000 | £210,198 | 9,621 |
| 2019 | £148,000 | £193,993 | 12,063 |
| 2018 | £141,000 | £187,956 | 12,429 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 12,127 |
| 2016 | £133,500 | £186,768 | 11,408 |
| 2015 | £132,000 | £186,516 | 10,368 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 9,988 |
| 2013 | £124,000 | £178,424 | 8,344 |
| 2012 | £124,000 | £182,513 | 6,611 |
| 2011 | £121,500 | £183,418 | 6,722 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 6,497 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 5,986 |
| 2008 | £123,000 | £201,623 | 8,472 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 15,880 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 16,012 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 13,373 |
| 2004 | £103,000 | £187,068 | 16,713 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 17,526 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 15,580 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 13,276 |
| 2000 | £54,000 | £105,975 | 13,116 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 12,656 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 11,991 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 11,661 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 11,045 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 9,999 |
In cash terms the typical L home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.4% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £136,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, L
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £365,000 | 568 | 48,775 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 1,475 | 123,919 |
| Terraced | £168,000 | 1,389 | 131,470 |
| Flats | £136,000 | 599 | 53,408 |
Sales activity in L
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 7,360 L sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 15,185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9,068 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around L
The local authority for L is Liverpool, the local authority covering most of the L area (parts fall under Sefton and Knowsley, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £901 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £677 a month here against £1,279 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Liverpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £210,000 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about L (Liverpool)
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Are L prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in L today
Everything above is what homes in L sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1,552 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the L median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (7,360 in L), the 1,552 homes listed here amount to about 3 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every L home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
When homes in L change hands
March is when L changes hands most (9.9% of the 54,077 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.7%. With so little between the busiest and quietest months, L sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,929 | 7.3% |
| February | 4,246 | 7.9% |
| March | 5,362 | 9.9% |
| April | 3,626 | 6.7% |
| May | 4,102 | 7.6% |
| June | 5,016 | 9.3% |
| July | 4,335 | 8.0% |
| August | 4,645 | 8.6% |
| September | 5,087 | 9.4% |
| October | 4,836 | 8.9% |
| November | 4,646 | 8.6% |
| December | 4,247 | 7.9% |
The price of an extra bedroom in L
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £215,000 | £239,995 (+12%) | £285,000 (+19%) | £371,995 (+31%) | £515,500 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £150,000 | £185,000 (+23%) | £225,995 (+22%) | £295,000 (+31%) | £390,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £98,750 | £130,000 (+32%) | £150,000 (+15%) | £193,000 (+29%) | £250,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £100,915 | £140,000 (+39%) | £177,500 (+27%) | £230,000 (+30%) | £250,000 (+9%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the L area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable L district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| L38 Hightown, Ince Blundell | £369,200 | +23% | 16 |
| L18 Allerton, Mossley Hill | £332,800 | +11% | 160 |
| L37 Formby, Great Altcar | £332,500 | +11% | 163 |
| L16 Broadgreen, Bowring Park | £325,000 | +18% | 67 |
| L40 Burscough, Holmeswood | £305,000 | +11% | 131 |
| L39 Aughton, Ormskirk | £275,000 | +13% | 154 |
| L23 Blundellsands, Brighton-le-Sands | £267,000 | +7% | 191 |
| L25 Belle Vale, Gateacre | £260,000 | +7% | 204 |
| L31 Lydiate, Maghull | £255,000 | +19% | 167 |
| L19 Aigburth, Garston | £240,000 | +20% | 112 |
| L22 Waterloo | £240,000 | +23% | 91 |
| L17 Aigburth, St Michael's Hamlet | £235,000 | +8% | 171 |
| L26 Halewood | £235,000 | +27% | 69 |
| L12 Croxteth, West Derby | £230,000 | +27% | 162 |
| L29 Lunt, Sefton | £225,800 | -27% | 1 |
| L34 Knowsley, Prescot | £225,000 | +11% | 91 |
| L15 Wavertree | £215,000 | +28% | 167 |
| L35 Prescot, Rainhill | £198,600 | +19% | 134 |
| L10 Aintree, Fazakerley | £192,000 | +14% | 68 |
| L14 Broadgreen, Dovecot | £187,000 | +17% | 115 |
| L24 Hale, Speke | £180,500 | +16% | 86 |
| L3 City centre, Everton | £180,000 | +6% | 89 |
| L36 Huyton, Roby | £180,000 | +9% | 183 |
| L21 Ford, Litherland | £175,000 | +30% | 110 |
| L33 Kirkby | £170,000 | +30% | 70 |
| L11 Clubmoor, Croxteth | £168,500 | +40% | 87 |
| L13 Clubmoor, Old Swan | £165,000 | +36% | 152 |
| L30 Bootle, Netherton | £165,000 | +38% | 80 |
| L9 Aintree, Fazakerley | £161,000 | +24% | 122 |
| L6 Anfield, city centre | £160,000 | +68% | 74 |
| L7 City centre, Edge Hill | £160,000 | +14% | 44 |
| L8 City centre, Dingle | £155,000 | +32% | 90 |
| L32 Kirkby | £153,000 | +7% | 57 |
| L20 Bootle | £141,000 | +28% | 138 |
| L1 City centre | £140,000 | -8% | 47 |
| L27 Netherley | £140,000 | +12% | 25 |
| L4 Anfield, Kirkdale | £133,000 | +40% | 100 |
| L28 Stockbridge Village | £132,500 | +47% | 6 |
| L5 Anfield, Everton | £125,000 | +18% | 25 |
| L2 City centre | £97,500 | -22% | 12 |
Selling in L? Start from the sold record
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About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.