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Rainhill market report L35, Prescot
The standing L35 (Rainhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 12,471 HM Land Registry entries for L35 (Prescot), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical L35 (Prescot) home changed hands for £200,000 in 2026 (median of 108 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier), with the mean at £214,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,370 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 12,471 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
L35 is the postcode district covering Prescot, Rainhill, Whiston in Prescot. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where L35 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 108 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L35 home went for £200,000. The mean is £214,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in L35
The last five years of sales put L35 at roughly £2,370 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L35 trades 30% below the country as a whole.
A typical L35 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 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 108 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 443 |
| 2024 | £207,500 | £220,615 | 406 |
| 2023 | £191,500 | £210,412 | 358 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 409 |
| 2021 | £167,000 | £211,444 | 447 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 346 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 411 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 367 |
| 2017 | £128,000 | £174,579 | 375 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 404 |
| 2015 | £124,500 | £175,919 | 330 |
| 2014 | £122,000 | £173,078 | 309 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 228 |
| 2012 | £116,000 | £170,738 | 203 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 201 |
| 2010 | £117,400 | £184,113 | 178 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 177 |
| 2008 | £129,000 | £211,458 | 291 |
| 2007 | £133,700 | £226,792 | 460 |
| 2006 | £122,000 | £211,776 | 440 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 378 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 527 |
| 2003 | £78,000 | £143,695 | 519 |
| 2002 | £67,500 | £127,001 | 537 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 562 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 471 |
| 1999 | £52,800 | £105,228 | 612 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 523 |
| 1997 | £48,200 | £98,848 | 540 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 495 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 416 |
In cash terms the typical L35 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 104%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L35 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 (+41.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.0%). 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) | −7.0% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 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.
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, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £290,000 against £130,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, L35
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 | £290,000 | 19 | 2,693 |
| Semi-detached | £207,500 | 56 | 5,960 |
| Terraced | £162,500 | 26 | 3,210 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 7 | 608 |
How many homes change hands in L35
Sales per year, counted
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
L35 recorded 281 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 487 sales a year before the financial crisis and 345 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.
What kind of market L35 is
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.
The rental side of L35
L35 falls under Knowsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £814 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £571 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,260, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £200,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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 (Rainhill)
Is L35 (Rainhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L35 (Rainhill)?
Are property prices falling in L35 (Rainhill)?
What happens to L35 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in L35 right now
Everything above is what homes in L35 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 84 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% above the L35 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the L area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
L35 ranks 17 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside L35, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L35 0 | £264,000 | 9 |
| L35 1 | £244,500 | 3 |
| 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 |
How L35 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 | £220,000 | +8% |
| L15 | £205,200 | +22% |
| L35 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in L35? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at L35'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 L35.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L35 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L35 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.