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Kirkby market report L33, Liverpool
The L33 (Kirkby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,483 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L33 (Liverpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in L33 (Liverpool) sold for £170,000 in 2026, the median of 60 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier. The mean was £172,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,960 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,483 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
L33 is the postcode district covering Kirkby 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 L33 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 L33
Take the 60 registered 2026 sales in L33 and the middle price, the median, is £170,000. The mean lands at £172,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in L33
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L33 costs about £1,960 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L33 trades 40% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical L33 home, 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 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £166,000 | £169,970 | 174 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 145 |
| 2023 | £141,000 | £154,925 | 168 |
| 2022 | £137,500 | £161,234 | 178 |
| 2021 | £131,000 | £165,863 | 166 |
| 2020 | £132,200 | £171,532 | 188 |
| 2019 | £131,000 | £171,710 | 218 |
| 2018 | £122,000 | £162,628 | 235 |
| 2017 | £119,200 | £162,577 | 228 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 159 |
| 2015 | £88,000 | £124,344 | 145 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 119 |
| 2013 | £88,500 | £127,343 | 81 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 78 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 96 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 92 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 115 |
| 2008 | £113,500 | £186,050 | 145 |
| 2007 | £102,900 | £174,547 | 466 |
| 2006 | £107,000 | £185,738 | 305 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 374 |
| 2004 | £97,500 | £177,079 | 453 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 454 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 375 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 270 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 264 |
| 1999 | £44,200 | £88,088 | 212 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 140 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 99 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 136 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical L33 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 103%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L33 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 2004 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L33 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.4% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
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, 49% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £245,000 against £95,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, L33
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 | £255,000 | 8 | 1,331 |
| Semi-detached | £171,500 | 36 | 3,167 |
| Terraced | £150,500 | 16 | 1,722 |
| Flats | £95,000 (2025) | – | 229 |
How many homes change hands in L33
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
L33 recorded 133 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 370 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the L33 market
Only 133 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L33 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around L33
For renting purposes L33 sits in Knowsley. The ONS average private rent there is £814 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £571 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,260, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Knowsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £814 a month (£9,768 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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.
Common questions on L33 (Kirkby)
Are property prices falling in L33 (Kirkby)?
Is L33 (Kirkby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L33 (Kirkby)?
Are L33 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat 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 L33 now
Everything above is what homes in L33 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 11 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the L33 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 55% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Clements Way, Kirkby, Liverpool, Mers...
- Peebles Close, LIVERPOOL, Merseyside,...
- Kirkby, Liverpool, Merseyside, Liverpool
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every L33 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
L33 ranks 8 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 L33, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L33 0 | £117,000 | 1 |
| L33 1 | £168,000 | 21 |
| L33 2 | £180,000 | 7 |
| L33 4 | £185,200 | 20 |
| L33 5 | £157,000 | 3 |
| L33 6 | £105,600 | 2 |
| L33 8 | £152,500 | 2 |
| L33 9 | £150,000 | 4 |
How L33 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L33 itself, which ranks 25 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% |
| L33 (this report) | £170,000 | +30% |
Before you sell in L33: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L33, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L33's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L33 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 L33.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L33 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual L33 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.