Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,238 sales registered with HM Land Registry in L38 (Liverpool) 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.
Sales data to March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
L38 is the postcode district covering Hightown, Ince Blundell in Liverpool. 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 L38 sits
Click the map to open L38 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£382,500median sold price, 2026
+30%five-year change (cash)
57sales in the last 12 months
2.9%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in L38 sells for
The 2026 median in L38 is £382,500, from 8 registered sales; the mean, £475,300, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so L38 trades 40% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical L38 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£382,500
£382,500
8
2025
£325,000
£325,000
43
2024
£395,300
£410,470
23
2023
£285,000
£305,832
31
2022
£283,000
£324,100
44
2021
£295,000
£364,785
45
2020
£263,500
£333,912
52
2019
£247,500
£316,837
45
2018
£255,000
£331,981
28
2017
£295,000
£392,954
61
2016
£212,000
£289,663
45
2015
£208,800
£288,144
44
2014
£218,500
£302,741
32
2013
£180,000
£252,953
30
2012
£190,000
£273,125
24
2011
£185,000
£272,756
31
2010
£208,500
£319,345
19
2009
£215,000
£337,543
17
2008
£203,900
£326,429
18
2007
£215,000
£356,182
43
2006
£206,200
£349,577
50
2005
£233,000
£404,962
30
2004
£214,200
£379,943
50
2003
£147,500
£265,385
33
2002
£145,000
£266,445
49
2001
£120,000
£225,306
47
2000
£94,000
£180,167
51
1999
£87,000
£169,337
45
1998
£78,200
£154,166
50
1997
£80,000
£160,232
47
1996
£71,200
£146,651
44
1995
£69,500
£147,554
59
In cash terms the typical L38 home went from £69,500 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L38 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 (+45.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−17.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+17.7%
+17.7%
5 years (since 2021)
+5.3%
+1.0%
10 years (since 2016)
+6.1%
+2.8%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.1%
+0.5%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
L38 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 44 sales a year before the financial crisis and 30 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 homes rent for around L38
L38 falls under Sefton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £616 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,400, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £382,500 median sold price, £928 a month is £11,136 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: 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.
Will L38 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and up 5% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
L38 ranks 9 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.
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.
Inside L38, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.