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Lydiate market report L31 1, Liverpool
The standing L31 1 (Lydiate) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,453 HM Land Registry entries for L31 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for L31 1 (Liverpool) is £262,500, from 25 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £272,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,453 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like L31 1 is a single group of streets within L31 (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 L31 1 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 L31 1 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for L31 1 is £262,500, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £272,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
L31 1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L31 1 costs about £2,740 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L31 1 sits 8% below the national market.
A typical L31 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £262,500 | £262,500 | 25 |
| 2025 | £258,600 | £264,784 | 140 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 138 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 92 |
| 2022 | £244,000 | £286,118 | 111 |
| 2021 | £214,500 | £271,585 | 133 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 124 |
| 2019 | £201,000 | £263,463 | 118 |
| 2018 | £187,500 | £249,941 | 110 |
| 2017 | £172,000 | £234,591 | 69 |
| 2016 | £158,000 | £221,044 | 39 |
| 2015 | £159,500 | £225,374 | 42 |
| 2014 | £158,200 | £224,434 | 30 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 43 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 30 |
| 2011 | £151,500 | £228,707 | 20 |
| 2010 | £151,000 | £236,807 | 36 |
| 2009 | £160,500 | £258,005 | 24 |
| 2008 | £173,000 | £283,584 | 37 |
| 2007 | £166,000 | £281,582 | 86 |
| 2006 | £159,000 | £276,004 | 56 |
| 2005 | £168,500 | £299,862 | 74 |
| 2004 | £153,200 | £278,241 | 126 |
| 2003 | £128,800 | £237,281 | 122 |
| 2002 | £109,500 | £206,023 | 118 |
| 2001 | £83,500 | £160,524 | 75 |
| 2000 | £81,500 | £159,944 | 99 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 69 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 103 |
| 1997 | £68,400 | £140,275 | 128 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 13 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 23 |
In cash terms the typical L31 1 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £262,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 149%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L31 1 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 1997 (+47.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.2%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in L31 1
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.
L31 1 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 101 sales a year recently, against 95 a year before 2008. 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.
Reading the L31 1 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.
Rents around L31 1
L31 1 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £616 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,400, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £262,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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 L31 1 (Lydiate)
Is L31 1 (Lydiate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L31 1 (Lydiate)?
Are property prices falling in L31 1 (Lydiate)?
Where do L31 1 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 L31 now
Turning to what is actually available: 88 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L31 district, not just L31 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 L31 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in L
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in L31
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of L31, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L31 0 | £281,200 | 10 |
| L31 2 | £148,800 | 18 |
| L31 3 | £345,000 | 9 |
| L31 4 | £275,000 | 13 |
| L31 5 | £235,100 | 8 |
| L31 6 | £225,000 | 17 |
| L31 7 | £263,000 | 11 |
| L31 8 | £311,000 | 10 |
| L31 9 | £255,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full L31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L31 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at L31 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working L31 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L31 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to L31 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L31 1 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.