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Halewood market report L26, Liverpool
The L26 (Halewood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,056 sales registered with HM Land Registry in L26 (Liverpool) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L26 (Liverpool) came in at £234,000, out of 50 registered, up 26% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £254,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,056 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L26 is the postcode district covering Halewood 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 L26 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 L26 sells for
Take the 50 registered 2026 sales in L26 and the middle price, the median, is £234,000. The mean lands at £254,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in L26
By floor space, homes in L26 have sold for about £2,690 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L26 sits 18% below the national market.
L26's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £234,000 | £234,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £278,000 | £284,648 | 274 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 316 |
| 2023 | £251,000 | £275,788 | 279 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 253 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 209 |
| 2020 | £162,500 | £210,847 | 141 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 148 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 229 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 240 |
| 2016 | £144,200 | £201,737 | 154 |
| 2015 | £143,000 | £202,059 | 169 |
| 2014 | £127,000 | £180,172 | 153 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 130 |
| 2012 | £127,800 | £188,106 | 92 |
| 2011 | £124,000 | £187,192 | 99 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 67 |
| 2009 | £134,000 | £215,406 | 71 |
| 2008 | £129,000 | £211,458 | 114 |
| 2007 | £142,200 | £241,211 | 258 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 320 |
| 2005 | £143,000 | £254,482 | 278 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 307 |
| 2003 | £93,000 | £171,329 | 288 |
| 2002 | £66,500 | £125,119 | 283 |
| 2001 | £62,600 | £120,345 | 238 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 320 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 289 |
| 1998 | £56,500 | £114,049 | 253 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 266 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 371 |
| 1995 | £52,800 | £114,779 | 397 |
In cash terms the typical L26 home went from £52,800 in 1995 to £234,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 104%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L26 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 2003 (+39.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.8%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £327,000 against £106,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, L26
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 | £320,000 | 15 | 2,329 |
| Semi-detached | £233,000 | 27 | 3,062 |
| Terraced | £175,000 | 7 | 1,547 |
| Flats | £106,000 (2022) | – | 76 |
What L26 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.8% | −17.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
L26 recorded 130 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 234 sales a year recently, against 287 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around L26
L26 falls under Knowsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £814 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £571 a month here against £1,260 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Knowsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £234,000 median sold price, £814 a month is £9,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Reading the L26 market
Only 130 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L26 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: L26 (Halewood)
Is L26 (Halewood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L26 (Halewood)?
Are property prices falling in L26 (Halewood)?
What happens to L26 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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 L26 now
Everything above is what homes in L26 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% above the L26 median sold price.
39% 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.
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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 L26 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.
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
L26 ranks 13 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside L26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L26 0 | £252,500 | 10 |
| L26 1 | £231,500 | 6 |
| L26 6 | £345,000 | 6 |
| L26 7 | £220,000 | 17 |
| L26 9 | £220,000 | 9 |
How L26 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 (this report) | £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% |
| L11 | £170,000 | +42% |
Selling a home in L26? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L26, open the average prices map and zoom from the L26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L26 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L26.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L26 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L26 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.