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Burscough market report L40 7, Ormskirk
The L40 7 (Burscough) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,555 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L40 7 (Ormskirk) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in L40 7 (Ormskirk) sold for £260,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £291,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,555 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like L40 7 is a single group of streets within L40 (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 L40 7 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 L40 7
33 sales were registered in L40 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £260,000. The mean works out at £291,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in L40 7
A square metre of L40 7 home has cost about £2,800 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, L40 7 runs 9% below it.
The price of a typical L40 7 home, 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £276,000 | £282,600 | 135 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 144 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 99 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 155 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 178 |
| 2020 | £268,000 | £347,736 | 106 |
| 2019 | £252,400 | £330,836 | 134 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 119 |
| 2017 | £169,000 | £230,499 | 60 |
| 2016 | £155,500 | £217,546 | 62 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 46 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 58 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 40 |
| 2012 | £157,000 | £231,084 | 20 |
| 2011 | £142,200 | £214,667 | 44 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 20 |
| 2009 | £148,500 | £238,715 | 30 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 33 |
| 2007 | £148,000 | £251,049 | 79 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 71 |
| 2005 | £149,500 | £266,050 | 59 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 75 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 92 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 87 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 92 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 67 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 115 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 82 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 123 |
| 1996 | £61,000 | £128,646 | 60 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 37 |
In cash terms the typical L40 7 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L40 7 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 2001 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−15.8%). 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) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 33 L40 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 113 sales a year over the last five years against 78 before the financial crisis. 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.
Reading the L40 7 market
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L40 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the L40 district median, L40 7 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around L40 7
L40 7 falls under West Lancashire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £799 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £584 a month here against £1,225 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, West Lancashire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £799 a month (£9,588 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
Asked and answered: L40 7 (Burscough)
Are property prices falling in L40 7 (Burscough)?
Is L40 7 (Burscough) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L40 7 (Burscough)?
Will L40 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in L40 today
Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L40 district, not just L40 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every L40 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: L prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the L area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the L area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L40
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of L40, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L40 0 | £375,000 | 6 |
| L40 1 | £351,000 | 8 |
| L40 2 | £410,000 | 7 |
| L40 3 | £450,000 | 7 |
| L40 4 | £375,000 | 7 |
| L40 5 | £242,000 | 21 |
| L40 6 | £257,500 | 4 |
| L40 8 | £410,000 | 5 |
| L40 9 | £525,000 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full L40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L40 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in L40 7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L40 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L40 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L40 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim L40 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to L40 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every L40 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.