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Rainhill market report L35 1, Prescot
The L35 1 (Rainhill) 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: 785 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L35 1 (Prescot) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for L35 1 (Prescot) is £244,500, from 3 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier; the mean is £251,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 785 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like L35 1 is a single group of streets within L35 (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 L35 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.
L35 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 3 registered 2026 sales in L35 1 and the middle price, the median, is £244,500. The mean lands at £251,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
L35 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of L35 1 home has cost about £2,880 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L35 1 sits 14% below the national market.
A typical L35 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £244,500 | £244,500 | 3 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 64 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 62 |
| 2023 | £282,500 | £310,399 | 55 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 53 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 23 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 12 |
| 2019 | £142,000 | £186,128 | 16 |
| 2018 | £159,500 | £212,617 | 18 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 19 |
| 2016 | £141,000 | £197,260 | 30 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 18 |
| 2014 | £112,500 | £159,601 | 20 |
| 2013 | £122,200 | £175,834 | 14 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 8 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 7 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 6 |
| 2009 | £272,400 | £437,885 | 5 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 14 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 23 |
| 2005 | £128,200 | £228,144 | 16 |
| 2004 | £120,500 | £218,852 | 24 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 25 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 38 |
| 2001 | £107,400 | £206,471 | 56 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 23 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 16 |
| 1998 | £44,500 | £89,826 | 17 |
| 1997 | £46,500 | £95,362 | 15 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 29 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 27 |
In cash terms the typical L35 1 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £244,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L35 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 2001 (+119.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−57.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 3 L35 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 47 sales a year over the last five years against 27 before the financial crisis. 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 rental side of L35 1
L35 1 falls under Knowsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£814 a month is £9,768 a year, which against the £244,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
What kind of market L35 1 is
Only 3 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L35 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. Against the L35 district median, L35 1 sits 22% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
L35 1 (Rainhill): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in L35 1 (Rainhill)?
Is L35 1 (Rainhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L35 1 (Rainhill)?
What happens to L35 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat 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.
L35's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 84 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L35 district, not just L35 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% 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.
- Whiston, Prescot, Merseyside, Prescot
- Middleton Drive, Prescot, Merseyside,...
- Ritherup Lane, Rainhill, Prescot, Prescot
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 L35 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
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight 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
The spread across the L area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L35
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L35's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L35 0 | £264,000 | 9 |
| L35 2 | £195,000 | 7 |
| L35 3 | £175,000 | 23 |
| L35 4 | £220,000 | 15 |
| L35 5 | £167,000 | 15 |
| L35 6 | £276,200 | 2 |
| L35 7 | £265,000 | 15 |
| L35 8 | £185,000 | 11 |
| L35 9 | £243,500 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full L35 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L35 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L35 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L35 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the L35 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L35 1 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 L35 1.
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The live map plots every individual L35 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.