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City centre market report L3 0, Liverpool
The L3 0 (City centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,228 HM Land Registry entries for L3 0 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in L3 0 (Liverpool) sold for £205,000 in 2026, the median of 9 registered sales, down 24% on five years earlier. The mean was £197,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,228 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like L3 0 is a single group of streets within L3 (Liverpool), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where L3 0 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 L3 0 prices, from the sold record
The L3 0 median stands at £205,000 for 2026, built from 9 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £197,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
L3 0 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in L3 0 have sold for about £2,490 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, L3 0 sits 28% below the national market.
A typical L3 0 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 9 |
| 2025 | £249,700 | £255,671 | 63 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 28 |
| 2023 | £226,300 | £248,648 | 33 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 68 |
| 2021 | £268,500 | £339,956 | 80 |
| 2020 | £212,600 | £275,853 | 81 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 83 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 23 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 18 |
| 2016 | £156,000 | £218,246 | 27 |
| 2015 | £163,800 | £231,449 | 26 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 17 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 9 |
| 2012 | £149,000 | £219,309 | 10 |
| 2011 | £158,500 | £239,274 | 10 |
| 2010 | £150,900 | £236,650 | 10 |
| 2009 | £134,000 | £215,406 | 10 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 5 |
| 2007 | £166,000 | £281,582 | 30 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 33 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 27 |
| 2004 | £176,200 | £320,014 | 32 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 47 |
| 2002 | £114,000 | £214,490 | 57 |
| 2001 | £96,200 | £184,940 | 71 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 132 |
| 1999 | £75,800 | £151,065 | 66 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 41 |
| 1997 | £80,500 | £165,089 | 38 |
| 1996 | £79,500 | £167,662 | 22 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 22 |
In cash terms the typical L3 0 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 2.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 18%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 44% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L3 0 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 2018 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−34.6%). 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) | −17.9% | −19.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.3% | −9.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.7% |
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.
Sales activity in L3 0
The year-by-year sales count
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 9 L3 0 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 54 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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 L3 0 market
Only 9 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L3 0 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. Within L3, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around L3 0
For renting purposes L3 0 sits in Liverpool. The ONS average private rent there is £901 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £677 a month here against £1,279 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Liverpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £205,000 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
Asked and answered: L3 0 (City centre)
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What happens to L3 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 24% over five years in cash but down 40% 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 is for sale in L3 right now
The live side of the market holds 136 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L3 district, not just L3 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- William Jessop Way, Liverpool, Liverpool
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Ellerman Road, Liverpool, Liverpool
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 L3 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.
What another bedroom costs in L
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 | — | £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
The spread across the L area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
L area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in L3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L3 1 | £220,200 | 8 |
| L3 2 | £66,000 | 5 |
| L3 3 | £16,000 | 3 |
| L3 4 | £220,000 | 25 |
| L3 5 | £127,500 | 1 |
| L3 6 | £132,500 | 10 |
| L3 8 | £76,900 | 2 |
| L3 9 | £162,500 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full L3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L3 0? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L3 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L3 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L3 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working L3 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L3 0.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to L3 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual L3 0 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.