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Bootle market report L20 6
The L20 6 (Bootle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,409 registered sales in L20 6 (Bootle) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L20 6 (Bootle) came in at £186,800, out of 22 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £190,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,409 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L20 6 is one sector of L20 (Bootle): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where L20 6 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.
L20 6 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 22 registered 2026 sales in L20 6 and the middle price, the median, is £186,800. The mean lands at £190,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
L20 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put L20 6 at roughly £2,080 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving L20 6 34% below the national figure.
A typical L20 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £186,800 | £186,800 | 22 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 79 |
| 2024 | £172,000 | £182,871 | 60 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 59 |
| 2022 | £163,500 | £191,722 | 76 |
| 2021 | £153,200 | £193,971 | 94 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 103 |
| 2019 | £147,500 | £193,337 | 100 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 124 |
| 2017 | £133,000 | £181,399 | 81 |
| 2016 | £116,000 | £162,285 | 58 |
| 2015 | £113,000 | £159,669 | 66 |
| 2014 | £130,100 | £184,570 | 89 |
| 2013 | £122,200 | £175,834 | 60 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 88 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 71 |
| 2010 | £116,400 | £182,545 | 27 |
| 2009 | £117,500 | £188,882 | 34 |
| 2008 | £126,100 | £206,705 | 80 |
| 2007 | £123,800 | £209,999 | 98 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 91 |
| 2005 | £58,500 | £104,106 | 120 |
| 2004 | £50,000 | £90,810 | 110 |
| 2003 | £49,500 | £91,191 | 82 |
| 2002 | £39,500 | £74,319 | 84 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 76 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 82 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 47 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 65 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 75 |
| 1996 | £33,800 | £71,283 | 59 |
| 1995 | £26,800 | £58,259 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical L20 6 home went from £26,800 in 1995 to £186,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 221%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L20 6 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 2006 (+62.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−13.1%). 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 years (since 2025) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 22 sales completed in L20 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
The rental side of L20 6
For renting purposes L20 6 sits in Sefton. The ONS average private rent there is £928 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £616 a month here against £1,400 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£928 a month is £11,136 a year, which against the £186,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
What kind of market L20 6 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L20 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within L20, this sector trades 31% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on L20 6 (Bootle)
Are property prices falling in L20 6 (Bootle)?
Is L20 6 (Bootle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L20 6 (Bootle)?
Are L20 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in L20 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 63 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L20 district, not just L20 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Thornton Avenue, Bootle, Merseyside, L20
- Gray Street, Bootle, Merseyside, L20
- 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 L20 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
L area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in L20
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L20's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L20 0 | £155,000 | 14 |
| L20 2 | £90,000 | 3 |
| L20 3 | £84,500 | 8 |
| L20 4 | £112,600 | 17 |
| L20 5 | £122,500 | 11 |
| L20 7 | £163,200 | 10 |
| L20 9 | £141,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full L20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L20 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L20 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L20 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L20 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L20 6.
Keep digging
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See every individual L20 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.