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Aintree market report L9 8, Liverpool
The L9 8 (Aintree) 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: 2,166 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in L9 8 (Liverpool) 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 L9 8 (Liverpool) sold for £192,500 in 2026, the median of 14 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £200,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,166 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 L9 8 is a single group of streets within L9 (Liverpool), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where L9 8 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 a home in L9 8 sells for
The 2026 median for L9 8 is £192,500, taken from 14 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £200,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in L9 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in L9 8 costs about £1,850 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts L9 8 32% below the country at large.
L9 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 14 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 59 |
| 2024 | £172,800 | £183,722 | 52 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 44 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 53 |
| 2021 | £152,500 | £193,085 | 68 |
| 2020 | £126,500 | £164,136 | 49 |
| 2019 | £144,800 | £189,798 | 76 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 96 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 55 |
| 2016 | £113,800 | £159,207 | 54 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 41 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 45 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 38 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 17 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 39 |
| 2010 | £119,500 | £187,407 | 36 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 29 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 41 |
| 2007 | £122,500 | £207,794 | 94 |
| 2006 | £116,800 | £202,750 | 92 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 74 |
| 2004 | £109,000 | £197,965 | 95 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 103 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 120 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 102 |
| 2000 | £55,200 | £108,330 | 138 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 153 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 111 |
| 1997 | £34,500 | £70,753 | 65 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 48 |
| 1995 | £37,500 | £81,519 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical L9 8 home went from £37,500 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the L9 8 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 1998 (+52.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What L9 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.3% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 L9 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 14 sales completed in L9 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of L9 8
L9 8 falls under Liverpool, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £901 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £192,500 median sold price, £901 a month is £10,812 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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 L9 8 market
This is a thin market: 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within L9, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
L9 8 (Aintree): the questions that come up
Is L9 8 (Aintree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in L9 8 (Aintree)?
Are property prices falling in L9 8 (Aintree)?
Where do L9 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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 you could buy in L9 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 100 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole L9 district, not just L9 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Liverpool, Merseyside, Merseyside
- Melling Avenue, Walton, Liverpool, L9
- Aintree, Merseyside, Merseyside
"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 L9 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.
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, L area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in L9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of L9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| L9 0 | £162,500 | 18 |
| L9 1 | £97,500 | 14 |
| L9 2 | £152,500 | 6 |
| L9 3 | £170,000 | 10 |
| L9 4 | £210,000 | 3 |
| L9 5 | £105,000 | 2 |
| L9 6 | £152,500 | 13 |
| L9 7 | £290,000 | 5 |
| L9 9 | £161,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full L9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how L9 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in L9 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in L9 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from L9 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded L9 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working L9 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim L9 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with L9 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual L9 8 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.
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.