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Aughton market report L39 1, Ormskirk
The standing L39 1 (Aughton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,264 HM Land Registry entries for L39 1 (Ormskirk), 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L39 1 (Ormskirk) came in at £265,000, out of 17 registered, up 34% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £263,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,264 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like L39 1 is a single group of streets within L39 (Ormskirk), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where L39 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.
The going rate for a home in L39 1
The 2026 median for L39 1 is £265,000, taken from 17 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £263,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in L39 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L39 1 costs about £2,480 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving L39 1 7% below the national figure.
L39 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £207,500 | £212,462 | 56 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 71 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 74 |
| 2022 | £199,000 | £233,350 | 63 |
| 2021 | £197,500 | £250,060 | 87 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 67 |
| 2019 | £167,500 | £219,552 | 72 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 61 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 72 |
| 2016 | £169,000 | £236,433 | 88 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 83 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 67 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 53 |
| 2012 | £146,200 | £215,188 | 42 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 52 |
| 2010 | £147,500 | £231,318 | 44 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 42 |
| 2008 | £144,000 | £236,046 | 42 |
| 2007 | £164,000 | £278,190 | 92 |
| 2006 | £151,800 | £263,505 | 100 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 60 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 76 |
| 2003 | £108,000 | £198,962 | 93 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 98 |
| 2001 | £72,800 | £139,954 | 100 |
| 2000 | £64,800 | £127,170 | 96 |
| 1999 | £61,500 | £122,566 | 86 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 81 |
| 1997 | £61,000 | £125,099 | 93 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 79 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical L39 1 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 116%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L39 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 2026 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L39 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +27.7% | +24.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.1% | +1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in L39 1
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
L39 1 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 89 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of L39 1
The local authority for L39 1 is West Lancashire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £799 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £584 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,225, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Lancashire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £265,000 median sold price, £799 a month is £9,588 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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 L39 1 market
This is a thin market: 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Common questions on L39 1 (Aughton)
How much did a house sell for in L39 1 (Aughton)?
Are property prices falling in L39 1 (Aughton)?
Is L39 1 (Aughton) a good place to buy a house?
Will L39 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 6% 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.
On the market in L39 today
The live side of the market holds 14 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L39 district, not just L39 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every L39 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.
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. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 L39
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L39, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L39 0 | £240,000 | 1 |
| L39 2 | £200,000 | 17 |
| L39 3 | £262,500 | 20 |
| L39 4 | £270,500 | 29 |
| L39 5 | £318,800 | 24 |
| L39 6 | £460,000 | 9 |
| L39 7 | £515,000 | 3 |
| L39 8 | £445,000 | 5 |
Zoom out to the full L39 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L39 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in L39 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at L39 1'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 L39 1.
Go deeper
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See every individual L39 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.