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Lydiate market report L31 9, Liverpool
The standing L31 9 (Lydiate) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,623 HM Land Registry entries for L31 9 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L31 9 (Liverpool) came in at £255,000, out of 20 registered, up 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £263,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,680 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,623 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L31 9 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 9 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.
L31 9 sold prices: where the market stands
The L31 9 median stands at £255,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £263,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in L31 9
A square metre of L31 9 home has cost about £2,680 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving L31 9 11% below the national figure.
A typical L31 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £242,500 | £248,299 | 59 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 47 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 56 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 61 |
| 2021 | £198,800 | £251,706 | 60 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 56 |
| 2019 | £190,500 | £249,700 | 46 |
| 2018 | £179,000 | £238,610 | 66 |
| 2017 | £176,900 | £241,274 | 50 |
| 2016 | £171,500 | £239,930 | 44 |
| 2015 | £152,200 | £215,059 | 54 |
| 2014 | £151,000 | £214,220 | 62 |
| 2013 | £141,000 | £202,885 | 35 |
| 2012 | £143,000 | £210,478 | 33 |
| 2011 | £159,100 | £240,180 | 48 |
| 2010 | £156,500 | £245,432 | 32 |
| 2009 | £146,000 | £234,696 | 33 |
| 2008 | £158,000 | £258,995 | 19 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 58 |
| 2006 | £164,000 | £284,683 | 63 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 37 |
| 2004 | £146,000 | £265,165 | 67 |
| 2003 | £121,800 | £224,385 | 50 |
| 2002 | £87,500 | £164,630 | 48 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 79 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 74 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 63 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 57 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 56 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 47 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 43 |
In cash terms the typical L31 9 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 102%, 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 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L31 9 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 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L31 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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 L31 9
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 20 L31 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 49 sales a year recently, against 60 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 9 is
This is a thin market: 20 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.
Rents around L31 9
L31 9 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £255,000 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
L31 9 (Lydiate): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in L31 9 (Lydiate)?
Is L31 9 (Lydiate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L31 9 (Lydiate)?
Will L31 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
L31's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 88 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L31 district, not just L31 9: 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.
Moving up a bedroom in L: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the L area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L31
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L31's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L31 0 | £281,200 | 10 |
| L31 1 | £262,500 | 25 |
| 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 |
Zoom out to the full L31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in L31 9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L31 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L31 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L31 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working L31 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L31 9.
Take it further
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See every individual L31 9 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.
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.