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Ford market report L21 8, Liverpool
The standing L21 8 (Ford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,681 registered sales in L21 8 (Liverpool) 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 L21 8 (Liverpool) came in at £106,000, out of 12 registered, up 36% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £110,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,681 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L21 8 is one sector of L21 (Liverpool): 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 L21 8 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.
Today's L21 8 prices, from the sold record
In the L21 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £106,000, from 12 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £110,000, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in L21 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of L21 8 sales average about £2,010 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L21 8 63% below the country at large.
A typical L21 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £106,000 | £106,000 | 12 |
| 2025 | £207,500 | £212,462 | 60 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 53 |
| 2023 | £182,000 | £199,974 | 74 |
| 2022 | £138,000 | £161,821 | 67 |
| 2021 | £78,000 | £98,758 | 39 |
| 2020 | £89,000 | £115,479 | 27 |
| 2019 | £85,000 | £111,415 | 42 |
| 2018 | £60,000 | £79,981 | 42 |
| 2017 | £56,800 | £77,469 | 46 |
| 2016 | £55,000 | £76,946 | 53 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 63 |
| 2014 | £155,800 | £221,030 | 53 |
| 2013 | £65,000 | £93,529 | 51 |
| 2012 | £62,500 | £91,992 | 16 |
| 2011 | £68,500 | £103,409 | 20 |
| 2010 | £67,500 | £105,857 | 26 |
| 2009 | £67,000 | £107,703 | 17 |
| 2008 | £74,000 | £121,302 | 35 |
| 2007 | £72,500 | £122,980 | 99 |
| 2006 | £65,000 | £112,832 | 78 |
| 2005 | £61,000 | £108,555 | 89 |
| 2004 | £49,200 | £89,357 | 102 |
| 2003 | £29,700 | £54,715 | 72 |
| 2002 | £25,800 | £48,542 | 66 |
| 2001 | £25,000 | £48,061 | 62 |
| 2000 | £21,000 | £41,213 | 47 |
| 1999 | £25,500 | £50,820 | 49 |
| 1998 | £25,000 | £50,464 | 55 |
| 1997 | £23,800 | £48,809 | 70 |
| 1996 | £22,000 | £46,397 | 50 |
| 1995 | £26,500 | £57,607 | 46 |
In cash terms the typical L21 8 home went from £26,500 in 1995 to £106,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 84%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2014. The market now sits about 52% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L21 8 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 2014 (+139.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−60.7%). 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) | −48.9% | −50.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.3% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 12 L21 8 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 77 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 L21 8
L21 8 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £616 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,400 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £106,000 median purchase price, a rent of £928 a month (£11,136 a year) works out at a 10.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market L21 8 is
This is a thin market: 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within L21, this sector trades 32% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: L21 8 (Ford)
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What happens to L21 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in L21 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 77 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L21 district, not just L21 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Litherland, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Ruby Close, LIVERPOOL, Merseyside, L21
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every L21 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
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in L21
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L21's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L21 0 | £130,000 | 11 |
| L21 1 | £140,000 | 9 |
| L21 2 | £187,500 | 4 |
| L21 3 | £207,500 | 2 |
| L21 4 | £111,500 | 4 |
| L21 5 | £285,000 | 7 |
| L21 6 | £145,000 | 4 |
| L21 7 | £177,000 | 9 |
| L21 9 | £183,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full L21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L21 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in L21 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L21 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the L21 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L21 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim L21 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to L21 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L21 8 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.
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.