L37 house prices are built from 11,337 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £205,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.2%.
Median price paid
£205,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+36.6%
Change in real terms
-2.2%
Median per m²
£2,984
HM Land Registry11,337 sales277 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Jun 2026
Section 01
How L37 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L37 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £75,000 | £166,535 |
| 2000s | 10 | £190,000 | £346,124 |
| 2010s | 10 | £218,250 | £307,733 |
| 2020s | 7 | £319,248 | £326,188 |
The highest yearly median on record for L37 is £343,000 in 2025; the lowest is £74,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £75,000 to £336,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,535, so the real change over the whole record is +101.8% — about +2.29% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +36.6% in cash against -2.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Sefton Road | 20 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 15 Birkey Lane | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £336,000 | £336,000 |
| 24 York Manor | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 180 Park Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 48 Wicks Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 29 the Hamptons | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 72 Wicks Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £369,000 | £369,000 |
| 33 Harington Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £519,500 | £519,500 |
| 4 Mounthouse Close | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 2 the Hamptons | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 49 Andrews Lane | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 69 Freshfield Road | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| 107B Liverpool Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 59 Greenloons Drive | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £327,000 | £327,000 |
| 69 Alt Road | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 7 Edenhurst Drive | 13 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £332,500 | £332,500 |
| 25 Liverpool Road | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 13 Bushbys Park | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £526,000 | £526,000 |
| 5 Sycamore Grove | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 41 Harington Road | 7 May 2026 | Detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 2 Monks Close | 7 May 2026 | Detached | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 4 CONIFER COURT Phillips Lane | 7 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 31 Mount House Road | 6 May 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 2 Birkey Lane | 6 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £65,000 | £65,000 |
| 25 Elsworth Close | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £635,000 | £635,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to L37 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Birkey Lane | £119,500 (2001) | £336,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 24 York Manor | £141,500 (2012) | £205,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 180 Park Road | £250,000 (2023) | £350,000 (2026) | +11.9% | +9.0% |
| 72 Wicks Lane | £228,000 (2006) | £369,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 48 Wicks Lane | £96,000 (1995) | £515,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 29 the Hamptons | £324,000 (2009) | £370,000 (2026) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| 4 Mounthouse Close | £152,500 (2012) | £265,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 2 the Hamptons | £305,000 (2015) | £400,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.7% |
| 49 Andrews Lane | £344,995 (2019) | £460,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +0.3% |
| 69 Freshfield Road | £168,300 (1999) | £700,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 107B Liverpool Road | £177,500 (2016) | £345,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +3.4% |
| 59 Greenloons Drive | £158,250 (2003) | £327,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L37 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 5,174 | 45.6% | £182,000 | £9,240 – £1,870,000 |
| Detached | 4,537 | 40.0% | £290,000 | £234 – £3,900,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,177 | 10.4% | £142,000 | £21,500 – £455,000 |
| Terraced | 449 | 4.0% | £178,000 | £26,000 – £415,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in L37
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,228 certificates cover L37, and their median floor area is 100 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +31.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 100 m² | about 1,076 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 78 m² | about 837 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 136 m² | about 1,464 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 7.9% | 175 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 18.9% | 422 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L37
2,990 of the sales on record are leasehold and 8,347 freehold — 26.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £177,500 and the median freehold sale £216,995 — a gap of +22.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2,990 | 26.4% | £177,500 |
| Freehold | 8,347 | 73.6% | £216,995 |
| New build | 622 | 5.5% | £257,995 |
| Existing home | 10,715 | 94.5% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +29.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 586 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in L37
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Sefton, 39.6% of 142,149 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 481 | 0.3% |
| B | 11,559 | 8.1% |
| C | 44,235 | 31.1% |
| D | 53,974 | 38.0% |
| E | 23,722 | 16.7% |
| F | 6,022 | 4.2% |
| G | 2,156 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Sefton at £932 a month as of Jun 2026 — £618 for a one-bedroom home and £986 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £205,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.46% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of L37, 96 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 35 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 26 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.
Against the 279,233 residents the 2021 census counted in Sefton, that is 0.34 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around L37
The 2021 census counted 279,233 residents in Sefton across 123,073 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a L37 postcode: 7 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formby High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,157 |
| Range High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 979 |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 365 |
| Woodlands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 349 |
| Freshfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 272 |
| Redgate Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 259 |
| Trinity St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 238 |
| Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 232 |
| St Jerome's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 195 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Formby Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Freshfield Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Hightown Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Ainsdale Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
Section 09
How L37 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L37 sits above that national figure — +30.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,984 per square metre, across 277 of the 11,337 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £234 to £3,900,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
L37 sits in Sefton, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Sefton at 7.0 times median local earnings of £33,028 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside L37
- L37 1£267,500 median
- L37 2£245,500 median
- L37 3£190,000 median
- L37 4£175,000 median
- L37 6£185,000 median
- L37 7£240,000 median
- L37 8£164,000 median
The closest districts
- L237.7 km · £162,000
- PR88.5 km · £140,000
- L319.6 km · £150,000
- L3911.0 km · £168,080
- L2012.5 km · £64,000
- PR913.1 km · £125,000
- CH4514.2 km · £113,000
- L4015.5 km · £176,500
This district mostly covers Liverpool.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L37?
The median price paid in L37 across every sale on the register is £205,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in L37?
11,337 sales are on record for L37, the most recent completing on 20 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L37 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were L37 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £343,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in L37?
£2,984 per square metre, from the 277 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 20 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “L37 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.