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Aughton market report L39 4, Ormskirk
The standing L39 4 (Aughton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,746 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L39 4 (Ormskirk) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical L39 4 (Ormskirk) home changed hands for £270,500 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £351,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,746 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
L39 4 is one sector of L39 (Ormskirk): 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 L39 4 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 buyers actually paid in L39 4
29 sales were registered in L39 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,500. The mean works out at £351,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in L39 4
By floor space, homes in L39 4 have sold for about £2,760 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L39 4 5% below the country at large.
A typical L39 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £270,500 | £270,500 | 29 |
| 2025 | £261,500 | £267,753 | 70 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 74 |
| 2023 | £258,000 | £283,479 | 71 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 79 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 90 |
| 2020 | £217,500 | £282,211 | 67 |
| 2019 | £212,000 | £277,881 | 64 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 73 |
| 2017 | £189,500 | £258,459 | 76 |
| 2016 | £233,000 | £325,969 | 90 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 77 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 71 |
| 2013 | £178,500 | £256,844 | 66 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 89 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 82 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 75 |
| 2009 | £170,700 | £274,402 | 64 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 79 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 123 |
| 2006 | £172,000 | £298,570 | 109 |
| 2005 | £167,500 | £298,082 | 64 |
| 2004 | £183,200 | £332,727 | 106 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 107 |
| 2002 | £99,500 | £187,208 | 127 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 94 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 108 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 158 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 123 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 105 |
| 1996 | £64,800 | £136,660 | 66 |
| 1995 | £61,500 | £133,692 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical L39 4 home went from £61,500 in 1995 to £270,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 102%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L39 4 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 (+46.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−18.7%). 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) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 29 L39 4 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 105 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
The shape of the L39 4 market
This is a thin market: 29 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. 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.
The rental side of L39 4
The local authority for L39 4 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.
£799 a month is £9,588 a year, which against the £270,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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 L39 4 (Aughton)
Is L39 4 (Aughton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L39 4 (Aughton)?
Are property prices falling in L39 4 (Aughton)?
Where do L39 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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 L39 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L39 district, not just L39 4: 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every L39 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L39
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are L39's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L39 0 | £240,000 | 1 |
| L39 1 | £265,000 | 17 |
| L39 2 | £200,000 | 17 |
| L39 3 | £262,500 | 20 |
| 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.
Before you sell in L39 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L39 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the L39 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L39 4 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 L39 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to L39 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual L39 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.