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City centre market report L7, Liverpool
The standing L7 (City centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 7,028 registered sales in L7 (Liverpool) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 L7 (Liverpool) is £160,000, from 39 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £153,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,028 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district L7 covering City centre, Edge Hill, Wavertree sits in Liverpool. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where L7 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 L7 homes really sell for
In the L7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £160,000, from 39 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £153,200, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
L7 prices by floor area
Per square metre, L7 homes have averaged around £1,920 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so L7 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical L7 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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £142,000 | £145,396 | 115 |
| 2024 | £134,800 | £143,320 | 114 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 107 |
| 2022 | £127,200 | £149,157 | 154 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 193 |
| 2020 | £111,000 | £144,025 | 114 |
| 2019 | £121,000 | £158,602 | 167 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 230 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 294 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 233 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 169 |
| 2014 | £78,000 | £110,657 | 139 |
| 2013 | £82,000 | £117,990 | 153 |
| 2012 | £85,500 | £125,845 | 120 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 184 |
| 2010 | £83,000 | £130,165 | 180 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 85 |
| 2008 | £95,500 | £156,545 | 274 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 396 |
| 2006 | £72,500 | £125,851 | 301 |
| 2005 | £65,000 | £115,674 | 310 |
| 2004 | £60,200 | £109,335 | 608 |
| 2003 | £31,000 | £57,110 | 502 |
| 2002 | £23,000 | £43,274 | 340 |
| 2001 | £25,000 | £48,061 | 195 |
| 2000 | £21,500 | £42,194 | 209 |
| 1999 | £24,000 | £47,831 | 190 |
| 1998 | £20,000 | £40,371 | 257 |
| 1997 | £21,000 | £43,067 | 199 |
| 1996 | £22,500 | £47,451 | 213 |
| 1995 | £20,800 | £45,216 | 244 |
In cash terms the typical L7 home went from £20,800 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 254%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the L7 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 (+94.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−10.4%). 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) | +12.7% | +10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 66% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £300,000 against £100,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, L7
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 | £300,000 (2025) | – | 142 |
| Semi-detached | £192,500 | 9 | 989 |
| Terraced | £160,200 | 19 | 4,600 |
| Flats | £97,800 | 10 | 1,248 |
Sales activity in L7
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 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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 82 sales completed in L7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 358 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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.
The rental side of L7
For renting purposes L7 sits in Liverpool. The ONS average private rent there is £901 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,279 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Liverpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 6.8%: 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 L7 market
Only 82 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes L7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
L7 (City centre): the questions that come up
Is L7 (City centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L7 (City centre)?
Are property prices falling in L7 (City centre)?
What happens to L7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 L7 today
Everything above is what homes in L7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 53 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% above the L7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every L7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in L
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
L7 ranks 25 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.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside L7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| L7 0 | £160,000 | 13 |
| L7 1 | £255,800 | 6 |
| L7 2 | £185,000 | 5 |
| L7 3 | £104,200 | 6 |
| L7 4 | £130,000 | 7 |
| L7 5 | £31,000 | 1 |
| L7 6 | £75,000 | 3 |
| L7 7 | £153,500 | 2 |
| L7 8 | £160,200 | 1 |
| L7 9 | £160,500 | 2 |
How L7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the L area, and L7 itself, which ranks 28 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% |
| L7 (this report) | £160,000 | +14% |
Thinking of selling in L7? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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See every individual L7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.