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Bootle market report L20 9
The standing L20 9 (Bootle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,412 registered sales in L20 9 (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: a typical L20 9 (Bootle) home changed hands for £141,000 in 2026 (median of 22 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £140,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,460 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,412 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like L20 9 is a single group of streets within L20 (Bootle), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where L20 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.
The going rate for a home in L20 9
Across 22 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L20 9 home went for £141,000. The mean is £140,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in L20 9
The last five years of sales put L20 9 at roughly £1,460 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L20 9 trades 51% below the country as a whole.
A typical L20 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £141,000 | £141,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £141,800 | £145,191 | 62 |
| 2024 | £128,000 | £136,090 | 59 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 52 |
| 2022 | £120,000 | £140,714 | 68 |
| 2021 | £115,000 | £145,605 | 69 |
| 2020 | £90,000 | £116,777 | 66 |
| 2019 | £88,800 | £116,396 | 58 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 64 |
| 2017 | £82,200 | £112,113 | 54 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 55 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 74 |
| 2014 | £75,000 | £106,401 | 53 |
| 2013 | £69,000 | £99,284 | 50 |
| 2012 | £88,000 | £129,525 | 37 |
| 2011 | £87,000 | £131,337 | 41 |
| 2010 | £87,000 | £136,438 | 45 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 36 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 75 |
| 2007 | £87,500 | £148,424 | 130 |
| 2006 | £86,000 | £149,285 | 112 |
| 2005 | £80,800 | £143,791 | 94 |
| 2004 | £74,000 | £134,398 | 131 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 148 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 123 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 98 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 89 |
| 1999 | £33,200 | £66,166 | 88 |
| 1998 | £33,200 | £67,017 | 104 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 72 |
| 1996 | £31,500 | £66,432 | 103 |
| 1995 | £33,800 | £73,476 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical L20 9 home went from £33,800 in 1995 to £141,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L20 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 (+85.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.6%). 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) | −0.6% | −2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
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 22 L20 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 116 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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.
What homes rent for around L20 9
L20 9 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £616 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,400, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £141,000 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 7.9%: 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 L20 9 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L20 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: L20 9 (Bootle)
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What happens to L20 9 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 L20 today
The live side of the market holds 63 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L20 district, not just L20 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in L: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the L area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in L20
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L20, one report each:
| 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 6 | £186,800 | 22 |
| L20 7 | £163,200 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full L20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L20 9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at L20 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L20 9.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about L20 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L20 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.