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Anfield market report L4, Liverpool
The L4 (Anfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 15,712 HM Land Registry entries for L4 (Liverpool), 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for L4 (Liverpool) is £135,500, from 84 registered sales, up 43% on five years earlier; the mean is £144,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,420 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 15,712 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
L4 is a postcode district covering Anfield, Kirkdale, Walton in Liverpool. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where L4 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.
L4 sold prices: where the market stands
The L4 median stands at £135,500 for 2026, built from 84 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £144,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in L4
By floor space, homes in L4 have sold for about £1,420 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 L4 52% below the country at large.
L4'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 | £135,500 | £135,500 | 84 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 281 |
| 2024 | £110,000 | £116,953 | 325 |
| 2023 | £107,500 | £118,116 | 337 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 405 |
| 2021 | £95,000 | £120,282 | 446 |
| 2020 | £82,000 | £106,397 | 323 |
| 2019 | £74,000 | £96,996 | 380 |
| 2018 | £70,000 | £93,311 | 409 |
| 2017 | £67,500 | £92,063 | 443 |
| 2016 | £65,000 | £90,936 | 469 |
| 2015 | £60,000 | £84,780 | 389 |
| 2014 | £59,000 | £83,702 | 345 |
| 2013 | £57,000 | £82,017 | 319 |
| 2012 | £62,000 | £91,256 | 254 |
| 2011 | £62,000 | £93,596 | 275 |
| 2010 | £67,000 | £105,073 | 258 |
| 2009 | £66,000 | £106,096 | 222 |
| 2008 | £76,000 | £124,580 | 442 |
| 2007 | £82,000 | £139,095 | 853 |
| 2006 | £74,000 | £128,455 | 894 |
| 2005 | £65,000 | £115,674 | 900 |
| 2004 | £52,000 | £94,442 | 1,059 |
| 2003 | £32,000 | £58,952 | 1,022 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 733 |
| 2001 | £29,500 | £56,712 | 501 |
| 2000 | £28,000 | £54,950 | 576 |
| 1999 | £27,000 | £53,810 | 519 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 609 |
| 1997 | £26,000 | £53,321 | 568 |
| 1996 | £26,700 | £56,309 | 552 |
| 1995 | £26,500 | £57,607 | 520 |
In cash terms the typical L4 home went from £26,500 in 1995 to £135,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the L4 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 (+62.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.2%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 82% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £230,000 against £80,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, L4
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 | £230,000 (2024) | – | 114 |
| Semi-detached | £165,200 | 22 | 2,344 |
| Terraced | £128,000 | 58 | 12,810 |
| Flats | £75,000 (2025) | – | 389 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.2% | +1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.4% | +2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.6% | +4.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
How many homes change hands in L4
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
L4 recorded 212 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 817 sales a year before the financial crisis and 286 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.
Rents around L4
The local authority for L4 is Liverpool, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £901 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £677 a month here against £1,279 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Liverpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £135,500 median purchase price, a rent of £901 a month (£10,812 a year) works out at a 8.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the L4 market
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. In its area's price order L4 comes 38 of 40, towards the cheaper end of the table.
L4 (Anfield): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in L4 (Anfield)?
Is L4 (Anfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L4 (Anfield)?
Are L4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 43% over five years in cash and up 13% 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.
What you could buy in L4 now
Everything above is what homes in L4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 85 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the L4 median sold price.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Queens Drive, Walton, Liverpool, L4
"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 L4 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.
Moving up a bedroom in L: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
L4 ranks 3 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 L4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L4 0 | £125,000 | 5 |
| L4 1 | £220,000 | 5 |
| L4 2 | £127,500 | 10 |
| L4 3 | £100,000 | 11 |
| L4 4 | £125,000 | 13 |
| L4 5 | £130,000 | 9 |
| L4 6 | £175,000 | 9 |
| L4 7 | £220,800 | 8 |
| L4 8 | £175,000 | 5 |
| L4 9 | £152,500 | 9 |
How L4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L4 itself, which ranks 38 of 40 by median price:
| 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 | £200,000 | +20% |
| L10 | £190,500 | +13% |
| L14 | £185,000 | +16% |
| L24 | £185,000 | +19% |
| L36 | £180,000 | +9% |
| L3 | £175,000 | +3% |
| L4 (this report) | £135,500 | +43% |
Selling in L4? 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 L4'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.
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Take it further
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See every individual L4 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.