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Lydiate market report L31, Liverpool
The L31 (Lydiate) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 13,932 registered sales in L31 (Liverpool) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in L31 (Liverpool) sold for £255,000 in 2026, the median of 141 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £269,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,670 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 13,932 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
L31 is the postcode district covering Lydiate, Maghull, Melling in Liverpool. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where L31 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
Across 141 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L31 home went for £255,000. The mean is £269,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in L31
By floor space, homes in L31 have sold for about £2,670 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L31 trades 11% below the country as a whole.
A typical L31 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 141 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 532 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 517 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 409 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 528 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 619 |
| 2020 | £212,000 | £275,074 | 516 |
| 2019 | £191,500 | £251,011 | 519 |
| 2018 | £182,500 | £243,276 | 523 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 439 |
| 2016 | £169,000 | £236,433 | 393 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 392 |
| 2014 | £152,000 | £215,639 | 354 |
| 2013 | £151,000 | £217,274 | 343 |
| 2012 | £148,000 | £217,838 | 306 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 274 |
| 2010 | £159,200 | £249,667 | 276 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 247 |
| 2008 | £161,500 | £264,733 | 214 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 464 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 471 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 405 |
| 2004 | £144,000 | £261,532 | 551 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 525 |
| 2002 | £92,500 | £174,038 | 546 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 600 |
| 2000 | £71,400 | £140,123 | 623 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 500 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 482 |
| 1997 | £62,400 | £127,970 | 530 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 395 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 298 |
In cash terms the typical L31 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L31 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.4%). 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) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
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, 58% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £327,500 against £135,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, L31
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 | £327,500 | 30 | 2,886 |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | 84 | 8,056 |
| Terraced | £235,000 | 17 | 1,748 |
| Flats | £135,000 | 10 | 1,242 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 356 sales completed in L31. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 425 sales a year recently, against 523 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.
Rents around L31
L31 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.
Against the £255,000 median purchase price, a rent of £928 a month (£11,136 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the L31 market
L31 sits 9 of 40 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: L31 (Lydiate)
How much did a house sell for in L31 (Lydiate)?
Are property prices falling in L31 (Lydiate)?
Is L31 (Lydiate) a good place to buy a house?
Will L31 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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
Everything above is what homes in L31 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 88 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the L31 median sold price.
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.
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
L31 ranks 19 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.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside L31, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| L31 9 | £255,000 | 20 |
How L31 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the L area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| L11 | £170,000 | +42% |
Selling in L31? 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'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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L31.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L31 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual L31 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.
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.