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City centre market report L1, Liverpool
The L1 (City centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,119 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L1 (Liverpool) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L1 (Liverpool) came in at £144,000, out of 37 registered, down 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £168,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,910 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,119 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district L1 covering City centre sits in Liverpool. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where L1 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 L1 homes really sell for
37 sales were registered in L1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £144,000. The mean works out at £168,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in L1
Per square metre, L1 homes have averaged around £2,910 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L1 sits 49% below the national market.
A typical L1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £144,000 | £144,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £151,000 | £154,611 | 212 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 227 |
| 2023 | £167,500 | £184,042 | 268 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 259 |
| 2021 | £153,000 | £193,718 | 194 |
| 2020 | £104,000 | £134,942 | 147 |
| 2019 | £93,000 | £121,901 | 465 |
| 2018 | £86,900 | £115,839 | 543 |
| 2017 | £76,100 | £103,793 | 406 |
| 2016 | £72,200 | £101,009 | 233 |
| 2015 | £102,000 | £144,126 | 153 |
| 2014 | £83,000 | £117,750 | 273 |
| 2013 | £76,400 | £109,932 | 155 |
| 2012 | £127,500 | £187,664 | 80 |
| 2011 | £116,000 | £175,115 | 114 |
| 2010 | £124,000 | £194,464 | 162 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 185 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 148 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 303 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 363 |
| 2005 | £147,000 | £261,601 | 210 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 254 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 363 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 181 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 67 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 25 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 23 |
| 1998 | £64,500 | £130,198 | 12 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 16 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 25 |
| 1995 | £44,200 | £96,084 | 16 |
In cash terms the typical L1 home went from £44,200 in 1995 to £144,000 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 50%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 45% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L1 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 1998 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−40.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 98% of the typed total.
Median by property type, L1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £94,400 (2002) | – | 13 |
| Terraced | £500,000 (2021) | – | 129 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 35 | 5,897 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.6% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.1% | +3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.3% | −3.0% |
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.
Sales activity in L1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
L1 recorded 84 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 201 sales a year recently, against 221 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around L1
L1 falls under Liverpool, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £144,000 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 7.5%: 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 kind of market L1 is
This is a thin market: 84 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. In its area's price order L1 comes 35 of 40, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on L1 (City centre)
How much did a house sell for in L1 (City centre)?
Are property prices falling in L1 (City centre)?
Is L1 (City centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do L1 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in L1 now
Everything above is what homes in L1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the L1 median sold price.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 L1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in L
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £247,500 | £342,995 (+39%) | £545,000 (+59%) | £755,000 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £194,995 (+22%) | £245,000 (+26%) | £350,000 (+43%) | £445,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £118,000 | £140,000 (+19%) | £165,000 (+18%) | £235,000 (+42%) | £317,050 (+35%) |
| Flat | £118,000 | £160,000 (+36%) | £230,000 (+44%) | £343,750 (+49%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
L1 ranks 38 of 40 in the L area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside L1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L1 0 | £150,000 | 6 |
| L1 2 | £91,500 | 2 |
| L1 3 | £150,000 | 5 |
| L1 4 | £71,500 | 8 |
| L1 5 | £142,000 | 12 |
| L1 6 | £141,500 | 2 |
| L1 7 | £223,000 | 2 |
| L1 8 | £145,000 | 4 |
| L1 9 | £312,500 | 1 |
How L1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L1 itself, which ranks 35 of 40 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| L38 | £387,500 | +29% |
| L37 | £330,500 | +10% |
| L18 | £321,000 | +7% |
| L40 | £296,000 | +8% |
| L16 | £293,500 | +7% |
| L39 | £280,000 | +15% |
| L23 | £266,500 | +7% |
| L25 | £260,000 | +7% |
| L31 | £255,000 | +19% |
| L19 | £245,000 | +23% |
| L17 | £235,000 | +8% |
| L26 | £234,000 | +26% |
| L22 | £231,800 | +19% |
| L12 | £230,000 | +27% |
| L29 | £225,800 | -27% |
| L34 | £220,000 | +8% |
| L15 | £205,200 | +22% |
| L35 | £200,000 | +20% |
| L10 | £190,500 | +13% |
| L14 | £185,000 | +16% |
| L24 | £185,000 | +19% |
| L36 | £180,000 | +9% |
| L3 | £175,000 | +3% |
| L1 (this report) | £144,000 | -6% |
Selling a home in L1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L1, open the average prices map and zoom from the L1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.