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Rainhill market report L35 3, Prescot
The standing L35 3 (Rainhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,054 sales registered with HM Land Registry in L35 3 (Prescot) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 23 registered 2026 sales put the L35 3 (Prescot) median at £175,000, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £175,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,054 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
L35 3 is one sector of L35 (Prescot): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where L35 3 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.
What a home in L35 3 sells for
The L35 3 median stands at £175,000 for 2026, built from 23 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £175,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in L35 3
The last five years of sales put L35 3 at roughly £2,210 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L35 3 sits 39% below the national market.
A typical L35 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £172,000 | £176,113 | 83 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 112 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 106 |
| 2022 | £152,200 | £178,472 | 94 |
| 2021 | £142,000 | £179,790 | 91 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 78 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 77 |
| 2018 | £112,000 | £149,298 | 73 |
| 2017 | £119,000 | £162,304 | 75 |
| 2016 | £103,000 | £144,098 | 84 |
| 2015 | £107,500 | £151,898 | 63 |
| 2014 | £105,500 | £149,670 | 64 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 35 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 47 |
| 2011 | £96,000 | £144,923 | 42 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 30 |
| 2009 | £106,000 | £170,396 | 35 |
| 2008 | £119,000 | £195,066 | 45 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 110 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 114 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 91 |
| 2004 | £97,000 | £176,171 | 123 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 142 |
| 2002 | £58,000 | £109,126 | 147 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 160 |
| 2000 | £48,400 | £94,985 | 144 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 150 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 155 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 159 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 146 |
| 1995 | £43,700 | £94,997 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical L35 3 home went from £43,700 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 84%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L35 3 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 (+38.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −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.
Sales activity in L35 3
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.
The register shows 23 L35 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 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.
How L35 3 trades
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L35 3 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 L35, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around L35 3
The local authority for L35 3 is Knowsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £814 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £571 a month here against £1,260 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £175,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 people ask about L35 3 (Rainhill)
Is L35 3 (Rainhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L35 3 (Rainhill)?
Are property prices falling in L35 3 (Rainhill)?
Will L35 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
What you could buy in L35 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 84 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L35 district, not just L35 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs 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.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in L35
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L35, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L35 0 | £264,000 | 9 |
| L35 1 | £244,500 | 3 |
| L35 2 | £195,000 | 7 |
| 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 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L35 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the L35 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L35 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim L35 3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about L35 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L35 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.