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Kirkby market report L32, Liverpool
The standing L32 (Kirkby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,377 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L32 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical L32 (Liverpool) home changed hands for £159,000 in 2026 (median of 47 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £178,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,820 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,377 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district L32 covering Kirkby sits in Liverpool. 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 L32 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 buyers actually paid in L32
Across 47 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L32 home went for £159,000. The mean is £178,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in L32
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L32 costs about £1,820 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L32 44% below the country at large.
A typical L32 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £159,000 | £159,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 184 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 208 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 154 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 219 |
| 2021 | £142,500 | £180,423 | 230 |
| 2020 | £147,000 | £190,736 | 205 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 271 |
| 2018 | £101,500 | £135,301 | 232 |
| 2017 | £85,000 | £115,931 | 157 |
| 2016 | £90,000 | £125,911 | 174 |
| 2015 | £87,500 | £123,638 | 122 |
| 2014 | £84,200 | £119,452 | 134 |
| 2013 | £87,000 | £125,184 | 127 |
| 2012 | £76,500 | £112,598 | 93 |
| 2011 | £82,500 | £124,543 | 99 |
| 2010 | £92,000 | £144,280 | 125 |
| 2009 | £87,000 | £139,853 | 116 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 138 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 361 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 403 |
| 2005 | £110,600 | £196,823 | 368 |
| 2004 | £93,800 | £170,359 | 343 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 319 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 244 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 267 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 210 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 137 |
| 1998 | £36,700 | £74,082 | 138 |
| 1997 | £37,500 | £76,905 | 159 |
| 1996 | £42,600 | £89,841 | 198 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 195 |
In cash terms the typical L32 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £159,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 59%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L32 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 (+54.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.2%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £285,000 against £58,500 for a flat, 4.9 times the price.
Median by property type, L32
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 | £295,000 | 10 | 1,167 |
| Semi-detached | £192,500 | 14 | 2,395 |
| Terraced | £130,000 | 21 | 2,527 |
| Flats | £58,500 (2025) | – | 261 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 126 sales completed in L32. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 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.
What tenants pay around L32
The local authority for L32 is Knowsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £814 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £571 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,260 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Knowsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £159,000 median purchase price, a rent of £814 a month (£9,768 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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 L32 market
This is a thin market: 126 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.
Asked and answered: L32 (Kirkby)
Are property prices falling in L32 (Kirkby)?
Is L32 (Kirkby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L32 (Kirkby)?
Where do L32 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What you could buy in L32 now
Everything above is what homes in L32 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 15 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% below the L32 median sold price.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Thursby Drive, Kirkby, Liverpool, Mer...
- Pennine Way, Liverpool, Merseyside, L32
- Ness Grove, Liverpool, Merseyside, L32
"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 L32 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
L32 ranks 27 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside L32, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L32 0 | £130,000 | 9 |
| L32 1 | £220,500 | 12 |
| L32 2 | £130,000 | 1 |
| L32 3 | £121,500 | 3 |
| L32 4 | £190,000 | 1 |
| L32 5 | £131,000 | 3 |
| L32 6 | £86,000 | 2 |
| L32 7 | £153,000 | 5 |
| L32 8 | £135,000 | 3 |
| L32 9 | £195,000 | 8 |
How L32 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L32 itself, which ranks 30 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% |
| L32 (this report) | £159,000 | +12% |
Selling in L32? 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 L32'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 L32: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L32.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every L32 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.
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.