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Aughton market report L39, Ormskirk
The L39 (Aughton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 12,997 sales registered with HM Land Registry in L39 (Ormskirk) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in L39 (Ormskirk) came in at £280,000, out of 125 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £373,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,997 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
L39 is the postcode district covering Aughton, Ormskirk in Ormskirk. 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 L39 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
The 2026 median for L39 is £280,000, taken from 125 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £373,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in L39
Per square metre, L39 homes have averaged around £2,800 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, L39 sits 2% below the national market.
L39's median sold price, 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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 125 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 373 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 398 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 347 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 400 |
| 2021 | £243,500 | £308,302 | 508 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 342 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 406 |
| 2018 | £226,800 | £302,329 | 368 |
| 2017 | £203,800 | £277,963 | 452 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 446 |
| 2015 | £187,500 | £264,938 | 411 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 403 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 368 |
| 2012 | £182,500 | £268,617 | 327 |
| 2011 | £177,000 | £267,202 | 294 |
| 2010 | £188,800 | £296,087 | 270 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 277 |
| 2008 | £175,200 | £287,190 | 266 |
| 2007 | £187,000 | £317,204 | 512 |
| 2006 | £174,700 | £303,257 | 498 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 361 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 495 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 513 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 542 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 512 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 517 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 592 |
| 1998 | £67,400 | £136,052 | 498 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 488 |
| 1996 | £60,800 | £128,224 | 358 |
| 1995 | £61,800 | £134,344 | 330 |
In cash terms the typical L39 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 108%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L39 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 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £162,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, L39
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 | £525,000 | 31 | 3,947 |
| Semi-detached | £281,500 | 61 | 5,678 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 24 | 2,194 |
| Flats | £162,500 | 9 | 1,178 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
L39 recorded 278 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 494 sales a year before the financial crisis and 329 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.
What homes rent for around L39
The local authority for L39 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 £280,000 median sold price, £799 a month is £9,588 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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 market
L39 sits 6 of 40 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
L39 (Aughton): the questions that come up
Is L39 (Aughton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L39 (Aughton)?
Are property prices falling in L39 (Aughton)?
Where do L39 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in L39 now
Everything above is what homes in L39 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 14 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 84% above the L39 median sold price.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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.
What another bedroom costs in L
What homes of each size actually sold for across the L area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
L39 ranks 23 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.
L area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside L39, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L39 0 | £240,000 | 1 |
| L39 1 | £265,000 | 17 |
| 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 |
How L39 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in L39? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in L39, open the average prices map and zoom from the L39 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded L39 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual L39 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.
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.