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Knowsley market report L34 1, Prescot
The standing L34 1 (Knowsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,488 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L34 1 (Prescot) 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: the middle 2026 sale in L34 1 (Prescot) came in at £285,500, out of 20 registered, up 41% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £280,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,488 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L34 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside L34 (Prescot). 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 L34 1 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.
Today's L34 1 prices, from the sold record
Across 20 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L34 1 home went for £285,500. The mean is £280,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in L34 1
A square metre of L34 1 home has cost about £2,690 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, L34 1 runs 0% above it.
A typical L34 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,500 | £285,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 50 |
| 2024 | £241,000 | £256,233 | 43 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 67 |
| 2022 | £236,500 | £277,323 | 91 |
| 2021 | £202,500 | £256,391 | 138 |
| 2020 | £194,000 | £251,719 | 129 |
| 2019 | £196,000 | £256,909 | 185 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 64 |
| 2017 | £158,000 | £215,496 | 21 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 27 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 17 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 19 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 9 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 16 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 11 |
| 2010 | £150,500 | £236,023 | 18 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 13 |
| 2008 | £152,500 | £249,980 | 8 |
| 2007 | £162,000 | £274,797 | 19 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 31 |
| 2005 | £191,000 | £339,903 | 29 |
| 2004 | £159,000 | £288,775 | 37 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 37 |
| 2002 | £119,500 | £224,838 | 68 |
| 2001 | £96,500 | £185,516 | 54 |
| 2000 | £83,700 | £164,261 | 112 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 78 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 33 |
| 1997 | £50,500 | £103,565 | 22 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 15 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 7 |
In cash terms the typical L34 1 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £285,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 153%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L34 1 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 1998 (+52.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L34 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +19.0% | +16.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.6% | +3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 L34 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 54 sales a year over the last five years against 48 before the financial crisis. 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 L34 1 is
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L34 1 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 L34, this sector trades 30% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around L34 1
For renting purposes L34 1 sits in Knowsley. The ONS average private rent there is £814 a month (May 2026). 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.
£814 a month is £9,768 a year, which against the £285,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
L34 1 (Knowsley): the questions that come up
Is L34 1 (Knowsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L34 1 (Knowsley)?
Are property prices falling in L34 1 (Knowsley)?
Are L34 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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.
L34's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 57 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L34 district, not just L34 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Eccleston Park, Prescot, Merseyside, Prescot
- Prescot, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Prescot, Merseyside, Merseyside
"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 L34 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.
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. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
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.
Other sectors in L34
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L34, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L34 0 | £217,500 | 7 |
| L34 2 | £258,800 | 13 |
| L34 3 | £145,000 | 4 |
| L34 4 | £354,000 | 1 |
| L34 5 | £135,000 | 15 |
| L34 6 | £145,000 | 7 |
| L34 9 | £565,000 | 1 |
Zoom out to the full L34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L34 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in L34 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at L34 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L34 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L34 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L34 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.