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Burscough market report L40, Ormskirk
The L40 (Burscough) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,233 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in L40 (Ormskirk) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 110 registered 2026 sales put the L40 (Ormskirk) median at £296,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £350,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,233 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
L40 is the postcode district covering Burscough, Holmeswood, Mawdesley 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 L40 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
Across 110 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) L40 home went for £296,000. The mean is £350,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in L40
Measured by floor area, the last five years of L40 sales average about £2,870 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, L40 runs 4% above it.
L40's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £296,000 | £296,000 | 110 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 380 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 367 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 297 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 390 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 472 |
| 2020 | £286,800 | £372,129 | 286 |
| 2019 | £251,800 | £330,050 | 351 |
| 2018 | £227,000 | £302,595 | 320 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 263 |
| 2016 | £187,000 | £261,615 | 299 |
| 2015 | £179,000 | £252,927 | 260 |
| 2014 | £197,500 | £280,188 | 299 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 200 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 165 |
| 2011 | £174,500 | £263,428 | 168 |
| 2010 | £183,500 | £287,775 | 148 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 133 |
| 2008 | £179,500 | £294,238 | 130 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 335 |
| 2006 | £168,500 | £292,494 | 333 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 301 |
| 2004 | £156,100 | £283,508 | 402 |
| 2003 | £151,000 | £278,179 | 435 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 389 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 324 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 338 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 358 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 248 |
| 1997 | £65,200 | £133,712 | 308 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 247 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical L40 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £296,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the L40 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 2003 (+43.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−10.0%). 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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £121,200 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, L40
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 | £450,000 | 41 | 3,577 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 44 | 3,746 |
| Terraced | £246,200 | 20 | 1,398 |
| Flats | £121,200 | 5 | 502 |
What L40 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in L40
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 268 L40 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 309 sales a year recently, against 357 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How L40 trades
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. L40 sits 4 of 40 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What tenants pay around L40
The local authority for L40 is West Lancashire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £296,000 median purchase price, a rent of £799 a month (£9,588 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
What people ask about L40 (Burscough)
Are property prices falling in L40 (Burscough)?
Is L40 (Burscough) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L40 (Burscough)?
Are L40 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in L40 right now
Everything above is what homes in L40 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 305% above the L40 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the L area. 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
L40 ranks 32 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside L40, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 7 | £260,000 | 33 |
| L40 8 | £410,000 | 5 |
| L40 9 | £525,000 | 12 |
How L40 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 (this report) | £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% |
| L11 | £170,000 | +42% |
Selling in L40? 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 L40'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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The live map plots every individual L40 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.