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Croxteth market report L12, Liverpool
The L12 (Croxteth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 14,023 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L12 (Liverpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in L12 (Liverpool) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 135 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier. The mean was £246,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,440 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 14,023 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
L12 is a postcode district covering Croxteth, West Derby in Liverpool. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where L12 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 L12
Across 135 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L12 home went for £230,000. The mean is £246,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
L12 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L12 costs about £2,440 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L12 sits 19% below the national market.
L12's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 135 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 333 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 330 |
| 2023 | £187,000 | £205,467 | 279 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 419 |
| 2021 | £180,500 | £228,536 | 455 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 330 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 390 |
| 2018 | £165,500 | £220,615 | 414 |
| 2017 | £147,800 | £201,584 | 390 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 399 |
| 2015 | £146,000 | £206,298 | 387 |
| 2014 | £137,200 | £194,642 | 317 |
| 2013 | £134,000 | £192,813 | 311 |
| 2012 | £127,000 | £186,928 | 249 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 226 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 234 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 225 |
| 2008 | £138,000 | £226,211 | 279 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 593 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 640 |
| 2005 | £139,200 | £247,720 | 560 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 559 |
| 2003 | £92,500 | £170,407 | 613 |
| 2002 | £71,500 | £134,527 | 580 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 667 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 613 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 659 |
| 1998 | £56,200 | £113,444 | 635 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 576 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 619 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 607 |
In cash terms the typical L12 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 96%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L12 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.7%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £102,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, L12
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 | £320,000 | 42 | 3,959 |
| Semi-detached | £218,800 | 58 | 6,386 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 27 | 2,703 |
| Flats | £102,500 | 8 | 975 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.5% | +2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in L12
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 257 sales completed in L12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 603 sales a year before the financial crisis and 299 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around L12
L12 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 £230,000 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on L12 (Croxteth)
Is L12 (Croxteth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L12 (Croxteth)?
Are property prices falling in L12 (Croxteth)?
Will L12 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
L12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in L12 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 103 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the L12 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 5a Furness Avenue, West Derby, Liverpool, Liverpool
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in L
What homes of each size actually sold for across the L area, 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
L12 ranks 11 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.
L area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside L12, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| L12 9 | £250,000 | 13 |
How L12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the L area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| L11 | £170,000 | +42% |
Thinking of selling in L12? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L12, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L12's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L12 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.