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Lydiate market report L31 2, Liverpool
The L31 2 (Lydiate) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,036 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L31 2 (Liverpool) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 18 registered 2026 sales put the L31 2 (Liverpool) median at £148,800, down 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £167,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,036 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
L31 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside L31 (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 L31 2 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.
The going rate for a home in L31 2
18 sales were registered in L31 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £148,800. The mean works out at £167,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in L31 2
The last five years of sales put L31 2 at roughly £2,630 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L31 2 trades 48% below the country as a whole.
A typical L31 2 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 | £148,800 | £148,800 | 18 |
| 2025 | £223,000 | £228,333 | 75 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 97 |
| 2023 | £206,000 | £226,344 | 58 |
| 2022 | £200,100 | £234,640 | 70 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 89 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 77 |
| 2019 | £170,800 | £223,878 | 54 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 51 |
| 2017 | £154,000 | £210,041 | 63 |
| 2016 | £144,000 | £201,457 | 60 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 56 |
| 2014 | £137,000 | £194,358 | 49 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 57 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 57 |
| 2011 | £127,800 | £192,929 | 46 |
| 2010 | £144,000 | £225,829 | 45 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 35 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 42 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 58 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 75 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 89 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 65 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 66 |
| 2002 | £82,500 | £155,223 | 83 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 66 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 80 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 77 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 50 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 91 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 75 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical L31 2 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £148,800 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 37%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 47% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L31 2 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 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−33.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L31 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −33.3% | −34.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.3% | −9.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.1% | −2.9% |
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
How many homes change hands
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 18 L31 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 64 sales a year recently, against 73 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.
What kind of market L31 2 is
Only 18 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L31 2 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 L31, this sector trades 42% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around L31 2
For renting purposes L31 2 sits in Sefton. The ONS average private rent there is £928 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £616 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,400 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £148,800 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 7.5%: 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.
What people ask about L31 2 (Lydiate)
Is L31 2 (Lydiate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L31 2 (Lydiate)?
Are property prices falling in L31 2 (Lydiate)?
Are L31 2 prices heading up or down?
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 L31 right 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the L area. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in L31
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L31, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L31 0 | £281,200 | 10 |
| L31 1 | £262,500 | 25 |
| 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 2? 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 L31 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L31 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L31 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim L31 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L31 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual L31 2 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.
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.