Gardner Avenue, Bootle house prices are built from 99 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 7 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,000. Across the 21 years from 2003 to 2024 the median moved +100.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.5%.
Median price paid
£118,000
Change in cash, 2003–2024
+100.3%
Change in real terms
+11.5%
Median per m²
£1,966
HM Land Registry99 sales16 with floor areaLatest sale 7 May 2026
Section 01
How Gardner Avenue, Bootle prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gardner Avenue, Bootle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | 1 | £42,750 | £94,925 |
| 2000s | 2 | £59,500 | £108,391 |
| 2010s | 2 | £108,000 | £152,280 |
| 2020s | 2 | £167,000 | £170,630 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gardner Avenue, Bootle is £190,000 in 2024; the lowest is £42,750 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £42,750 to £190,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £92,735, so the real change over the whole record is +115.6% — about +2.78% 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: +100.3% in cash against +11.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | 7 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 69 | 29 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 67 | 18 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 30 | 14 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 111 | 16 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 39 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £189,950 | £199,873 |
| 2 | 16 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 45 | 2 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 72 | 24 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 58 | 4 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 18 | 11 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £183,000 | £212,021 |
| 81 | 25 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £191,500 | £221,869 |
| 20 | 17 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 121 | 15 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 115 | 16 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £214,100 | £270,503 |
| 12 | 12 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £167,000 | £210,995 |
| 31 | 28 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 6 | 15 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| 25 | 27 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| 48 | 23 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £207,163 |
| 27 | 25 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £177,000 | £229,174 |
| 63 | 4 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| 26 | 28 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £143,000 | £187,041 |
| 74 | 13 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| 119 | 13 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £164,950 | £215,751 |
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 Gardner Avenue, Bootle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 Gardner Avenue | £43,000 (1996) | £225,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 67 Gardner Avenue | £66,000 (2001) | £270,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 72 Gardner Avenue | £145,000 (2018) | £220,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +3.1% |
| 81 Gardner Avenue | £59,500 (1998) | £191,500 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 121 Gardner Avenue | £118,500 (2016) | £175,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +6.0% |
| 115 Gardner Avenue | £45,950 (1997) | £214,100 (2021) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| 12 Gardner Avenue | £37,000 (1996) | £167,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 6 Gardner Avenue | £134,000 (2014) | £165,000 (2021) | +3.0% | +1.2% |
| 25 Gardner Avenue | £64,000 (2002) | £140,000 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 27 Gardner Avenue | £47,000 (1999) | £177,000 (2020) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 63 Gardner Avenue | £140,000 (2015) | £165,000 (2020) | +3.3% | +1.6% |
| 26 Gardner Avenue | £90,000 (2003) | £143,000 (2019) | +2.9% | +0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gardner Avenue, Bootle 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 | 98 | 99.0% | £118,000 | £24,000 – £270,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.0% | £64,500 | £64,500 – £64,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gardner Avenue, Bootle
88 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11 freehold — 88.9% 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 £116,500 and the median freehold sale £133,000 — a gap of +14.2%. 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 | 88 | 88.9% | £116,500 |
| Freehold | 11 | 11.1% | £133,000 |
A further 5 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 Gardner Avenue, Bootle
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Liverpool, 49.1% of 295,568 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 696 | 0.2% |
| B | 30,216 | 10.2% |
| C | 114,071 | 38.6% |
| D | 100,985 | 34.2% |
| E | 35,975 | 12.2% |
| F | 9,277 | 3.1% |
| G | 4,348 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Liverpool at £905 a month as of Jun 2026 — £680 for a one-bedroom home and £954 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £118,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.20% 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 L20, 591 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 292 violent, 12 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.5 times busier.
Against the 486,088 residents the 2021 census counted in Liverpool, that is 1.22 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 Gardner Avenue, Bootle
The 2021 census counted 486,088 residents in Liverpool across 207,491 households. 47.4% of those households own their home and 52.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a L20 postcode: 8 primary, 2 nursery, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 785 |
| King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes | Secondary | Free schools | 708 |
| St Monica's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 446 |
| Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 440 |
| Springwell Park Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 440 |
| Bedford Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| Thomas Gray Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 318 |
| All Saints Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 312 |
| St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 236 |
| Linacre Primary School | Primary | Community school | 134 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bootle New Strand Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Bootle Oriel Road Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Kirkdale Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Walton (Merseyside) Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
Section 09
How Gardner Avenue, Bootle compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gardner Avenue, Bootle sits below that national figure — -25.1%.
Within Bootle the street ranks 62 of 471 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £72,000 (+63.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,966 per square metre, across 16 of the 99 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 £24,000 to £270,000. 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.
Gardner Avenue, Bootle sits in Liverpool, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Liverpool at 4.7 times median local earnings of £38,430 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
Streets nearby
- Hawthorne Road£53,250 median
- Bedford Road£57,500 median
- Southport Road£110,000 median
- Gloucester Road£45,500 median
- Litherland Road£54,000 median
- Park Lane£104,000 median
- Beatrice Street£44,125 median
- Stanley Road£54,950 median
- Downing Road£59,975 median
- Gonville Road£47,000 median
- Sidney Road£60,000 median
- Wadham Road£45,000 median
- Norton Street£45,000 median
- Keble Road£89,498 median
- Olivia Street£46,500 median
- Westfields Drive£162,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Gardner Avenue4 sales
- 141 Gardner Avenue3 sales
- 27 Gardner Avenue3 sales
- 62 Gardner Avenue3 sales
- 67 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 72 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 81 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 121 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 115 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 12 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 6 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 25 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 63 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 26 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 74 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 46 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 89 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 68 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 36 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 33 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 135 Gardner Avenue2 sales
- 83 Gardner Avenue2 sales
Back to Bootle house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gardner Avenue, Bootle?
The median price paid in Gardner Avenue, Bootle across every sale on the register is £118,000. 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 Gardner Avenue, Bootle?
99 sales are on record for Gardner Avenue, Bootle, the most recent completing on 7 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gardner Avenue, Bootle house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +100.3% between 2003 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gardner Avenue, Bootle house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, set in 2024. 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 Gardner Avenue, Bootle?
£1,966 per square metre, from the 16 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 7 May 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, “Gardner Avenue, Bootle 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.