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Knowsley market report L34, Prescot
The L34 (Knowsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,912 registered sales in L34 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 70 registered 2026 sales put the L34 (Prescot) median at £220,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £257,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,912 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
L34 is a postcode district covering Knowsley, Prescot in Prescot. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where L34 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 L34
The 2026 median for L34 is £220,000, taken from 70 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £257,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in L34
By floor space, homes in L34 have sold for about £2,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L34 sits 23% below the national market.
The price of a typical L34 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 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 70 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 248 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 264 |
| 2023 | £252,000 | £276,886 | 265 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 322 |
| 2021 | £203,000 | £257,024 | 370 |
| 2020 | £192,500 | £249,773 | 312 |
| 2019 | £186,100 | £243,933 | 382 |
| 2018 | £177,000 | £235,944 | 188 |
| 2017 | £152,500 | £207,995 | 150 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 205 |
| 2015 | £138,000 | £194,994 | 165 |
| 2014 | £134,000 | £190,102 | 198 |
| 2013 | £128,500 | £184,899 | 132 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 148 |
| 2011 | £146,500 | £221,159 | 147 |
| 2010 | £136,200 | £213,597 | 154 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 129 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 133 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 210 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 217 |
| 2005 | £144,000 | £256,262 | 191 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 223 |
| 2003 | £85,500 | £157,512 | 244 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 275 |
| 2001 | £66,000 | £126,882 | 239 |
| 2000 | £73,500 | £144,244 | 325 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 289 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 215 |
| 1997 | £53,600 | £109,923 | 208 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 179 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 115 |
In cash terms the typical L34 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 102%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L34 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 (+57.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−11.2%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £360,000 against £115,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, L34
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 | £360,000 | 23 | 2,050 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 21 | 2,579 |
| Terraced | £138,500 | 17 | 1,608 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 9 | 670 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in L34
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 170 L34 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 234 sales a year recently, against 241 a year before 2008. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around L34
For renting purposes L34 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.
Set against the £220,000 median sold price, £814 a month is £9,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the L34 market
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.
Asked and answered: L34 (Knowsley)
How much did a house sell for in L34 (Knowsley)?
Are property prices falling in L34 (Knowsley)?
Is L34 (Knowsley) a good place to buy a house?
Are L34 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% 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
Everything above is what homes in L34 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% above the L34 median sold price.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Eccleston Park, Prescot, Merseyside, Prescot
- Prescot, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Prescot, Merseyside, Merseyside
"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 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
L34 ranks 30 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.
L area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside L34, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L34 0 | £217,500 | 7 |
| L34 1 | £285,500 | 20 |
| 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 |
How L34 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 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in L34: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L34, open the average prices map and zoom from the L34 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L34 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim L34.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L34 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L34 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.
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.