Litherland Road, Bootle house prices

Litherland Road, Bootle house prices are built from 214 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £54,000. Across the 13 years from 2011 to 2024 the median moved +25.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.2%.

HM Land Registry214 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Litherland Road, Bootle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Litherland Road, Bootle is £107,500 in 2022; the lowest is £15,700 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £29,100 to £87,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £64,616, so the real change over the whole record is +42.5% — about +1.23% 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: +25.0% in cash against -14.2% 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.

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.

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 Litherland Road, Bootle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Litherland Road, Bootle is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

159 of the sales on record are leasehold and 55 freehold — 74.3% 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 £60,000 and the median freehold sale £39,995 — a gap of -33.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +98.9%. 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 57 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.

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.

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 £54,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.11% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Litherland Road, Bootle sits below that national figure — -65.7%.

Within Bootle the street ranks 362 of 471 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £72,000 (-25.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £613 per square metre, across 32 of the 214 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 £8,200 to £200,000. 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.

Litherland Road, 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.

Streets nearby

• Hawthorne Road£53,250 median
• Bedford Road£57,500 median
• Southport Road£110,000 median
• Gloucester Road£45,500 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
• Washington Parade£96,269 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 311 Litherland Road4 sales
• 347 Litherland Road4 sales
• 305 Litherland Road4 sales
• 207 Litherland Road3 sales
• 267 Litherland Road3 sales
• 223 Litherland Road3 sales
• 270 Litherland Road3 sales
• 163 Litherland Road3 sales
• 5A Litherland Road3 sales
• 32 Litherland Road3 sales
• 234 Litherland Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 15, WISHING WELLS APARTMENTS Litherland Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 24, WISHING WELLS APARTMENTS Litherland Road2 sales
• 184 Litherland Road2 sales
• 203 Litherland Road2 sales
• 287 Litherland Road2 sales
• 216 Litherland Road2 sales
• 240 Litherland Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 33, WISHING WELLS APARTMENTS Litherland Road2 sales
• 231 Litherland Road2 sales
• 174 Litherland Road2 sales
• 233 Litherland Road2 sales
• 250 Litherland Road2 sales
• 170 Litherland Road2 sales

Back to Bootle house prices.

What is the average house price in Litherland Road, Bootle?

The median price paid in Litherland Road, Bootle across every sale on the register is £54,000. 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 Litherland Road, Bootle?

214 sales are on record for Litherland Road, Bootle, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Litherland Road, Bootle house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +25.0% between 2011 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Litherland Road, Bootle house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £107,500, set in 2022. 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 Litherland Road, Bootle?

£613 per square metre, from the 32 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 27 Mar 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, “Litherland Road, 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.