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Ainsdale market report PR8 6, Southport
The PR8 6 (Ainsdale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,722 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PR8 6 (Southport) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 61 registered 2026 sales put the PR8 6 (Southport) median at £220,000, up 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £228,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,722 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like PR8 6 is a single group of streets within PR8 (Southport), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PR8 6 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 PR8 6
61 sales were registered in PR8 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £220,000. The mean works out at £228,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in PR8 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in PR8 6 costs about £2,170 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PR8 6 23% below the national figure.
A typical PR8 6 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 171 |
| 2024 | £202,500 | £215,299 | 185 |
| 2023 | £216,000 | £237,331 | 167 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 213 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 260 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 189 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 204 |
| 2018 | £162,000 | £215,949 | 197 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 202 |
| 2016 | £159,000 | £222,443 | 219 |
| 2015 | £157,000 | £221,841 | 191 |
| 2014 | £144,000 | £204,289 | 219 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 154 |
| 2012 | £138,500 | £203,855 | 174 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 144 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 89 |
| 2009 | £146,500 | £235,500 | 85 |
| 2008 | £154,000 | £252,439 | 140 |
| 2007 | £158,000 | £268,012 | 229 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 288 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 205 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 263 |
| 2003 | £106,800 | £196,751 | 298 |
| 2002 | £77,800 | £146,380 | 296 |
| 2001 | £66,000 | £126,882 | 270 |
| 2000 | £59,700 | £117,161 | 306 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 332 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 297 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 269 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 218 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 187 |
In cash terms the typical PR8 6 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PR8 6 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 (+37.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.1%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in PR8 6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 61 PR8 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 269 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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 PR8 6
The local authority for PR8 6 is Sefton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £928 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £616 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,400, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sefton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £220,000 median purchase price, a rent of £928 a month (£11,136 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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 kind of market PR8 6 is
Against the PR8 district median, PR8 6 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about PR8 6 (Ainsdale)
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Where do PR8 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
PR8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 68 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PR8 district, not just PR8 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ainsdale, Southport, Merseyside, Southport
- Blowick Moss Lane, Southport, PR8, Southport
- 80 Lord Street, Southport, PR8, Southport
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every PR8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in PR: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the PR 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 | — | £243,000 | £325,000 (+34%) | £475,000 (+46%) | £654,500 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £164,975 | £189,950 (+15%) | £228,000 (+20%) | £295,000 (+29%) | £410,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £126,180 | £138,000 (+9%) | £167,850 (+22%) | £233,000 (+39%) | £300,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £98,000 | £130,000 (+33%) | £195,000 (+50%) | £280,000 (+44%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PR area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PR8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PR8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PR8 1 | £132,500 | 22 |
| PR8 2 | £265,000 | 67 |
| PR8 3 | £268,000 | 72 |
| PR8 4 | £245,000 | 55 |
| PR8 5 | £207,500 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full PR8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PR8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PR8 6? 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 PR8 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PR8 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PR8 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PR8 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PR8 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PR8 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PR8 6 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.