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Netherton market report L30, Bootle
The standing L30 (Netherton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,751 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L30 (Bootle) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L30 (Bootle) came in at £165,000, out of 74 registered, up 38% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £168,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,751 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district L30 covering Bootle, Netherton sits in Bootle. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where L30 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 L30 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for L30 is £165,000, taken from 74 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £168,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
L30 prices by floor area
Per square metre, L30 homes have averaged around £1,860 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L30 sits 42% below the national market.
The price of a typical L30 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £163,000 | £166,898 | 172 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 160 |
| 2023 | £144,000 | £158,221 | 180 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 189 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 214 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 156 |
| 2019 | £100,000 | £131,076 | 170 |
| 2018 | £103,500 | £137,967 | 176 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 179 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 200 |
| 2015 | £96,000 | £135,648 | 155 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 139 |
| 2013 | £83,000 | £119,429 | 144 |
| 2012 | £89,500 | £131,733 | 115 |
| 2011 | £88,000 | £132,846 | 114 |
| 2010 | £97,000 | £152,121 | 99 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 90 |
| 2008 | £106,800 | £175,068 | 126 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 255 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 261 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 255 |
| 2004 | £88,000 | £159,825 | 224 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 285 |
| 2002 | £56,900 | £107,057 | 279 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 221 |
| 2000 | £44,200 | £86,743 | 210 |
| 1999 | £44,500 | £88,686 | 245 |
| 1998 | £45,800 | £92,451 | 216 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 154 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 157 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical L30 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 85%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L30 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.4%). 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, 49% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £235,000 against £76,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, L30
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 | £268,000 | 7 | 504 |
| Semi-detached | £192,500 | 25 | 2,777 |
| Terraced | £150,200 | 38 | 2,165 |
| Flats | £76,500 (2025) | – | 272 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in L30
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 145 sales completed in L30. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 249 sales a year before the financial crisis and 155 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 L30 market
Only 145 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L30 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around L30
For renting purposes L30 sits in Sefton. The ONS average private rent there is £928 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £616 a month here against £1,400 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£928 a month is £11,136 a year, which against the £165,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. 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.
What people ask about L30 (Netherton)
Is L30 (Netherton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L30 (Netherton)?
Are property prices falling in L30 (Netherton)?
Are L30 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in L30 now
Everything above is what homes in L30 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the L30 median sold price.
18% 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.
- Netherton, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Lichfield Close, BOOTLE, Merseyside, L30
- Simons Croft, Bootle, Merseyside, L30
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 L30 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
L30 ranks 5 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.
L area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside L30, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L30 0 | £140,000 | 4 |
| L30 1 | £180,000 | 13 |
| L30 2 | £132,500 | 10 |
| L30 3 | £153,800 | 10 |
| L30 5 | £150,000 | 17 |
| L30 6 | £275,000 | 3 |
| L30 7 | £220,000 | 9 |
| L30 8 | £182,500 | 8 |
| L30 9 | £145,000 | 5 |
How L30 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L30 itself, which ranks 27 of 40 by median price:
| 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 | £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% |
| L30 (this report) | £165,000 | +38% |
Selling a home in L30? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L30, open the average prices map and zoom from the L30 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L30 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual L30 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.