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Bootle market report L20
The L20 (Bootle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 11,391 registered sales in L20 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 108 registered 2026 sales put the L20 (Bootle) median at £142,500, up 30% on five years earlier, with a mean of £140,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,391 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district L20 covering Bootle sits in Bootle. 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 L20 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 a home in L20 sells for
In the L20 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £142,500, from 108 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £140,900, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in L20
Per square metre, L20 homes have averaged around £1,560 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L20 50% below the country at large.
A typical L20 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 | £142,500 | £142,500 | 108 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 265 |
| 2024 | £123,500 | £131,306 | 254 |
| 2023 | £124,000 | £136,246 | 261 |
| 2022 | £117,000 | £137,196 | 310 |
| 2021 | £110,000 | £139,274 | 349 |
| 2020 | £93,000 | £120,669 | 318 |
| 2019 | £94,000 | £123,212 | 336 |
| 2018 | £85,900 | £114,506 | 400 |
| 2017 | £81,800 | £111,567 | 374 |
| 2016 | £72,200 | £101,009 | 352 |
| 2015 | £75,500 | £106,682 | 351 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 370 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 263 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 223 |
| 2011 | £89,500 | £135,111 | 238 |
| 2010 | £79,500 | £124,676 | 182 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 159 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 326 |
| 2007 | £83,000 | £140,791 | 554 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 541 |
| 2005 | £65,000 | £115,674 | 542 |
| 2004 | £50,000 | £90,810 | 679 |
| 2003 | £33,500 | £61,715 | 608 |
| 2002 | £31,500 | £59,267 | 478 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 392 |
| 2000 | £28,000 | £54,950 | 377 |
| 1999 | £29,500 | £58,792 | 328 |
| 1998 | £26,000 | £52,483 | 386 |
| 1997 | £27,000 | £55,372 | 345 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 376 |
| 1995 | £29,000 | £63,042 | 346 |
In cash terms the typical L20 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £142,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 126%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2009; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2009 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L20 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 (+49.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 63% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £250,000 against £63,700 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, L20
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 | £250,000 (2025) | – | 330 |
| Semi-detached | £176,500 | 46 | 3,042 |
| Terraced | £128,500 | 45 | 7,197 |
| Flats | £70,800 | 14 | 793 |
How many homes change hands in L20
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 231 sales completed in L20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 521 sales a year before the financial crisis and 240 a year over the last five. 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.
Reading the L20 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 40 measurable districts of its area, L20 ranks 36 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around L20
L20 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £142,500 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 7.8%: 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 L20 (Bootle)
Is L20 (Bootle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L20 (Bootle)?
Are property prices falling in L20 (Bootle)?
Are L20 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 30% over five years in cash and flat 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.
L20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in L20 sold for. The live side of the market holds 63 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the L20 median sold price.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Thornton Avenue, Bootle, Merseyside, L20
- Gray Street, Bootle, Merseyside, L20
- 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in L
What homes of each size actually sold for across the L area, 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
L20 ranks 9 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside L20, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| L20 9 | £141,000 | 22 |
How L20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L20 itself, which ranks 36 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% |
| L20 (this report) | £142,500 | +30% |
Selling in L20? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L20, open the average prices map and zoom from the L20 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L20 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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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.