Local market reports › L area › L21
Ford market report L21, Liverpool
The standing L21 (Ford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,507 HM Land Registry entries for L21 (Liverpool), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for L21 (Liverpool) is £175,000, from 110 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier; the mean is £175,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,507 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
L21 is the postcode district covering Ford, Litherland, Seaforth in Liverpool. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where L21 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for L21 is £175,000, taken from 110 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £175,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in L21
Per square metre, L21 homes have averaged around £1,920 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving L21 39% below the national figure.
The price of a typical L21 home, 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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 110 |
| 2025 | £178,500 | £182,768 | 229 |
| 2024 | £163,200 | £173,515 | 258 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 233 |
| 2022 | £144,000 | £168,856 | 275 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 307 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 200 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 255 |
| 2018 | £100,100 | £133,435 | 249 |
| 2017 | £108,000 | £147,301 | 278 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 248 |
| 2015 | £113,800 | £160,799 | 258 |
| 2014 | £103,500 | £146,833 | 229 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 200 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 132 |
| 2011 | £85,200 | £128,619 | 136 |
| 2010 | £93,000 | £145,848 | 135 |
| 2009 | £92,500 | £148,695 | 110 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 203 |
| 2007 | £96,000 | £162,843 | 411 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 444 |
| 2005 | £88,500 | £157,494 | 335 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 421 |
| 2003 | £59,000 | £108,692 | 401 |
| 2002 | £59,300 | £111,572 | 550 |
| 2001 | £43,500 | £83,627 | 346 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 288 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 256 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 289 |
| 1997 | £32,500 | £66,651 | 280 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 250 |
| 1995 | £32,500 | £70,650 | 191 |
In cash terms the typical L21 home went from £32,500 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 148%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 4% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L21 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 2002 (+36.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.8% | +1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £290,000 against £123,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, L21
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 | £290,000 | 8 | 464 |
| Semi-detached | £198,800 | 40 | 3,254 |
| Terraced | £138,500 | 54 | 4,313 |
| Flats | £123,000 | 8 | 452 |
Sales activity in L21
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.
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, 193 sales completed in L21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 400 sales a year before the financial crisis and 221 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
L21 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 £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £928 a month (£11,136 a year) works out at a 6.4% 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.
Asked and answered: L21 (Ford)
How much did a house sell for in L21 (Ford)?
Are property prices falling in L21 (Ford)?
Is L21 (Ford) a good place to buy a house?
Are L21 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in L21 now
Everything above is what homes in L21 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the L21 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (193 in L21), the 48 homes listed here amount to about 3 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 4% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 L21 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Month by month: when L21 sells
November is when L21 changes hands most (12.0% of the 1,302 sales dated 2021 to 2025); February is the quiet end at 5.5%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 101 | 7.8% |
| February | 71 | 5.5% |
| March | 114 | 8.8% |
| April | 102 | 7.8% |
| May | 104 | 8.0% |
| June | 104 | 8.0% |
| July | 115 | 8.8% |
| August | 120 | 9.2% |
| September | 117 | 9.0% |
| October | 98 | 7.5% |
| November | 156 | 12.0% |
| December | 100 | 7.7% |
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. 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 | £215,000 | £239,995 (+12%) | £285,000 (+19%) | £371,995 (+31%) | £515,500 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £150,000 | £185,000 (+23%) | £225,995 (+22%) | £295,000 (+31%) | £390,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £98,750 | £130,000 (+32%) | £150,000 (+15%) | £193,000 (+29%) | £250,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £100,915 | £140,000 (+39%) | £177,500 (+27%) | £230,000 (+30%) | £250,000 (+9%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
L21 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside L21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L21 0 | £138,800 | 14 |
| L21 1 | £140,000 | 11 |
| L21 2 | £203,000 | 6 |
| L21 3 | £207,500 | 2 |
| L21 4 | £115,000 | 5 |
| L21 5 | £270,000 | 9 |
| L21 6 | £130,000 | 5 |
| L21 7 | £178,500 | 10 |
| L21 8 | £122,800 | 16 |
| L21 9 | £190,000 | 32 |
How L21 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the L area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| L38 | £369,200 | +23% |
| L18 | £332,800 | +11% |
| L37 | £332,500 | +11% |
| L16 | £325,000 | +18% |
| L40 | £305,000 | +11% |
| L39 | £275,000 | +13% |
| L23 | £267,000 | +7% |
| L25 | £260,000 | +7% |
| L31 | £255,000 | +19% |
| L19 | £240,000 | +20% |
| L22 | £240,000 | +23% |
| L17 | £235,000 | +8% |
| L26 | £235,000 | +27% |
| L12 | £230,000 | +27% |
| L29 | £225,800 | -27% |
| L34 | £225,000 | +11% |
| L15 | £215,000 | +28% |
| L35 | £198,600 | +19% |
| L10 | £192,000 | +14% |
| L14 | £187,000 | +17% |
| L24 | £180,500 | +16% |
| L3 | £180,000 | +6% |
| L36 | £180,000 | +9% |
| L21 (this report) | £175,000 | +30% |
Before you sell in L21: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L21, open the average prices map and zoom from the L21 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L21 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L21 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L21 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.