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Croxteth market report L12 9, Liverpool
The standing L12 9 (Croxteth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,853 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L12 9 (Liverpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in L12 9 (Liverpool) sold for £250,000 in 2026, the median of 13 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier. The mean was £253,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,510 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,853 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
L12 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside L12 (Liverpool). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where L12 9 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 L12 9 homes really sell for
The L12 9 median stands at £250,000 for 2026, built from 13 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £253,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in L12 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L12 9 costs about £2,510 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 L12 9 12% below the country at large.
L12 9'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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 42 |
| 2024 | £237,500 | £252,511 | 46 |
| 2023 | £202,500 | £222,498 | 40 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 70 |
| 2021 | £207,000 | £262,089 | 63 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 47 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 59 |
| 2018 | £171,200 | £228,213 | 66 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 59 |
| 2016 | £172,000 | £240,630 | 50 |
| 2015 | £177,500 | £250,808 | 56 |
| 2014 | £156,000 | £221,313 | 47 |
| 2013 | £144,000 | £207,202 | 43 |
| 2012 | £142,500 | £209,742 | 38 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 31 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 27 |
| 2009 | £143,000 | £229,874 | 27 |
| 2008 | £157,000 | £257,356 | 44 |
| 2007 | £154,500 | £262,075 | 64 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 60 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 45 |
| 2004 | £145,500 | £264,256 | 50 |
| 2003 | £99,300 | £182,935 | 86 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 81 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 128 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 90 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 96 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 87 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 77 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 67 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical L12 9 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L12 9 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 (+46.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−12.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 13 L12 9 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 76 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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.
How L12 9 trades
Only 13 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L12 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the L12 district median, L12 9 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around L12 9
The local authority for L12 9 is Liverpool, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £901 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,279, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Liverpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£901 a month is £10,812 a year, which against the £250,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
L12 9 (Croxteth): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in L12 9 (Croxteth)?
Is L12 9 (Croxteth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L12 9 (Croxteth)?
Where do L12 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
L12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 103 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L12 district, not just L12 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 5a Furness Avenue, West Derby, Liverpool, Liverpool
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every L12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the L area. 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 | — | £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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in L12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L12 0 | £225,000 | 51 |
| L12 1 | £442,000 | 5 |
| L12 2 | £116,200 | 1 |
| L12 3 | £307,500 | 4 |
| L12 4 | £187,500 | 17 |
| L12 5 | £251,000 | 14 |
| L12 6 | £145,800 | 4 |
| L12 7 | £257,500 | 11 |
| L12 8 | £220,000 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full L12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in L12 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L12 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the L12 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L12 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L12 9.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every L12 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.