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Knowsley market report L34 2, Prescot
The L34 2 (Knowsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,672 registered sales in L34 2 (Prescot) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L34 2 (Prescot) came in at £258,800, out of 13 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £259,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,672 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like L34 2 is a single group of streets within L34 (Prescot), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where L34 2 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.
L34 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the L34 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £258,800, from 13 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £259,500, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in L34 2
Per square metre, L34 2 homes have averaged around £2,380 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L34 2 sits 9% below the national market.
L34 2's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £258,800 | £258,800 | 13 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 47 |
| 2024 | £259,500 | £275,902 | 54 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 47 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 65 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 62 |
| 2020 | £181,000 | £234,851 | 60 |
| 2019 | £174,500 | £228,728 | 62 |
| 2018 | £181,000 | £241,276 | 48 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 58 |
| 2016 | £172,500 | £241,329 | 54 |
| 2015 | £139,800 | £197,537 | 44 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 59 |
| 2013 | £148,000 | £212,957 | 23 |
| 2012 | £153,500 | £225,933 | 38 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 31 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 19 |
| 2009 | £153,300 | £246,431 | 29 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 27 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 73 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 67 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 43 |
| 2004 | £152,500 | £276,970 | 64 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 64 |
| 2002 | £94,100 | £177,048 | 70 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 71 |
| 2000 | £65,500 | £128,544 | 73 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 74 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 72 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 61 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 61 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical L34 2 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £258,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L34 2 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 2002 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−20.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L34 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.6% | +3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in L34 2
How many homes change hands
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.
L34 2 recorded 13 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 66 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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.
The shape of the L34 2 market
Only 13 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L34 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within L34, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around L34 2
For renting purposes L34 2 sits in St. Helens. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,275, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £258,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
Common questions on L34 2 (Knowsley)
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What happens to L34 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in L34 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L34 district, not just L34 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 L34 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. 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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £285,500 | 20 |
| 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 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L34 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the L34 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L34 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual L34 2 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.