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City centre market report L3 4, Liverpool
The standing L3 4 (City centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,683 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L3 4 (Liverpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical L3 4 (Liverpool) home changed hands for £220,000 in 2026 (median of 25 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier), with the mean at £240,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,683 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
L3 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside L3 (Liverpool). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where L3 4 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 4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for L3 4 is £220,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £240,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in L3 4
A square metre of L3 4 home has cost about £2,930 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L3 4 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
A typical L3 4 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £192,000 | £196,591 | 69 |
| 2024 | £171,000 | £181,808 | 70 |
| 2023 | £179,500 | £197,227 | 70 |
| 2022 | £183,000 | £214,588 | 89 |
| 2021 | £172,000 | £217,774 | 100 |
| 2020 | £167,000 | £216,686 | 63 |
| 2019 | £148,000 | £193,993 | 73 |
| 2018 | £166,200 | £221,548 | 98 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 92 |
| 2016 | £149,500 | £209,152 | 88 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 75 |
| 2014 | £154,500 | £219,185 | 83 |
| 2013 | £148,000 | £212,957 | 53 |
| 2012 | £138,500 | £203,855 | 37 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 40 |
| 2010 | £147,500 | £231,318 | 46 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 43 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 54 |
| 2007 | £158,200 | £268,351 | 96 |
| 2006 | £177,400 | £307,944 | 160 |
| 2005 | £165,600 | £294,701 | 133 |
| 2004 | £163,000 | £296,040 | 281 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 481 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 286 |
| 2001 | £117,000 | £224,927 | 237 |
| 2000 | £106,000 | £208,025 | 245 |
| 1999 | £81,500 | £162,425 | 159 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 99 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 118 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 107 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 13 |
In cash terms the typical L3 4 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 56%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L3 4 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 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−18.6%). 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) | +14.6% | +11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.7% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 25 L3 4 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 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the L3 4 market
This is a thin market: 25 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. 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 26% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of L3 4
The local authority for L3 4 is Liverpool, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £901 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£901 a month is £10,812 a year, which against the £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: L3 4 (City centre)
Is L3 4 (City centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L3 4 (City centre)?
Are property prices falling in L3 4 (City centre)?
Will L3 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% 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.
L3's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in L: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the L area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L3 0 | £205,000 | 9 |
| L3 1 | £220,200 | 8 |
| L3 2 | £66,000 | 5 |
| L3 3 | £16,000 | 3 |
| 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.
Before you sell in L3 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L3 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L3 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L3 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working L3 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L3 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about L3 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L3 4 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.
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.