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Waterloo market report L22, Liverpool
The L22 (Waterloo) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,081 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L22 (Liverpool) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical L22 (Liverpool) home changed hands for £231,800 in 2026 (median of 72 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £228,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,310 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,081 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
L22 is the postcode district covering Waterloo 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 L22 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 buyers actually paid in L22
Take the 72 registered 2026 sales in L22 and the middle price, the median, is £231,800. The mean lands at £228,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in L22
Per square metre, L22 homes have averaged around £2,310 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 L22 19% below the national figure.
The price of a typical L22 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £231,800 | £231,800 | 72 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 184 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 229 |
| 2023 | £198,000 | £217,554 | 167 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 220 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 231 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 219 |
| 2019 | £173,000 | £226,762 | 179 |
| 2018 | £172,500 | £229,946 | 217 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 212 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 215 |
| 2015 | £144,500 | £204,179 | 198 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 187 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 141 |
| 2012 | £132,000 | £194,288 | 147 |
| 2011 | £133,200 | £201,081 | 144 |
| 2010 | £141,000 | £221,124 | 139 |
| 2009 | £136,000 | £218,621 | 129 |
| 2008 | £147,800 | £242,275 | 136 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 317 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 294 |
| 2005 | £142,000 | £252,703 | 203 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 274 |
| 2003 | £96,500 | £177,776 | 301 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 345 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 326 |
| 2000 | £52,600 | £103,228 | 331 |
| 1999 | £50,700 | £101,042 | 326 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 316 |
| 1997 | £46,500 | £95,362 | 264 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 228 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 190 |
In cash terms the typical L22 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £231,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L22 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 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £297,500 against £135,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, L22
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 | £297,500 (2024) | – | 293 |
| Semi-detached | £265,000 | 21 | 2,439 |
| Terraced | £236,800 | 36 | 3,115 |
| Flats | £135,000 | 15 | 1,211 |
What L22 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in L22
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 143 L22 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 299 sales a year before the financial crisis and 174 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.
How L22 trades
This is a thin market: 143 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.
The rental side of L22
For renting purposes L22 sits in Sefton. The ONS average private rent there is £928 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £231,800 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
L22 (Waterloo): the questions that come up
Is L22 (Waterloo) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L22 (Waterloo)?
Are property prices falling in L22 (Waterloo)?
What happens to L22 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
L22's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in L22 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 40 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the L22 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"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 L22 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
L22 ranks 18 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 L22, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L22 0 | £224,800 | 10 |
| L22 1 | £144,500 | 4 |
| L22 2 | £275,000 | 6 |
| L22 3 | £224,000 | 6 |
| L22 4 | £242,000 | 13 |
| L22 5 | £185,000 | 6 |
| L22 6 | £215,000 | 9 |
| L22 7 | £267,500 | 6 |
| L22 8 | £260,000 | 3 |
| L22 9 | £233,500 | 9 |
How L22 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the L area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| L11 | £170,000 | +42% |
Before you sell in L22: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L22, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L22's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L22 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working L22: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L22.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L22 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L22 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.
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.