L18 house prices are built from 12,940 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,259. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +46.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.9%.
Median price paid
£170,259
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+46.5%
Change in real terms
+4.9%
Median per m²
£1,903
HM Land Registry12,940 sales2,511 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026
Section 01
How L18 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L18 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 | £57,000 | £126,567 |
| 2000s | 10 | £160,000 | £291,473 |
| 2010s | 10 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 7 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for L18 is £325,000 in 2025; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £320,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +162.0% — about +3.16% 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: +46.5% in cash against +4.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 Eton Court | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 17 Elmsley Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £773,000 | £773,000 |
| 182 Booker Avenue | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £645,000 | £645,000 |
| 14 Hornby Lane | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 16 Herondale Road | 10 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 71 Verdala Park | 10 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 1 Queens Drive | 9 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £351,000 | £351,000 |
| 11A Mosslea Park | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £204,000 | £204,000 |
| 32 Glenmore Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 35 Kingsdale Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| APARTMENT 4 35 Dudlow Lane | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 25 Wyndcote Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 55 Avonmore Avenue | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 2 CALDER EDGE Calder Drive | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 14 Beech Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £144,500 | £144,500 |
| 7 Greenhill Avenue | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £662,000 | £662,000 |
| 64 the Beeches | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £630,000 | £630,000 |
| 4 Stalbridge Avenue | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £392,000 | £392,000 |
| 21 Cleveley Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| APARTMENT 4 85 Green Lane | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 25 Elmswood Court | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 97 Melbreck Road | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 7 Dudlow Gardens | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 11 Plattsville Road | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £415,750 | £415,750 |
| 66 Nicander Road | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £249,200 | £249,200 |
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 L18 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 Eton Court | £106,000 (2013) | £150,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 14 Hornby Lane | £110,000 (1996) | £230,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.1% |
| 182 Booker Avenue | £103,000 (1995) | £645,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 17 Elmsley Road | £440,000 (2008) | £773,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 16 Herondale Road | £130,000 (2021) | £255,000 (2026) | +14.4% | +9.2% |
| 1 Queens Drive | £240,000 (2024) | £351,000 (2026) | +20.9% | +17.9% |
| 32 Glenmore Avenue | £227,500 (2007) | £500,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.2% |
| 35 Kingsdale Road | £147,500 (2025) | £300,000 (2026) | +103.4% | +99.1% |
| APARTMENT 4 35 Dudlow Lane | £375,000 (2019) | £425,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -2.0% |
| 14 Beech Court | £48,000 (1995) | £144,500 (2026) | +3.6% | +1.0% |
| 25 Wyndcote Road | £195,000 (2015) | £360,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.5% |
| 2 CALDER EDGE Calder Drive | £140,800 (2014) | £195,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 5,020 | 38.8% | £149,000 | £100 – £750,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4,525 | 35.0% | £216,000 | £150 – £980,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,885 | 14.6% | £136,000 | £15,000 – £780,000 |
| Detached | 1,510 | 11.7% | £337,500 | £216 – £3,025,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in L18
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,493 certificates cover L18, and their median floor area is 91 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +19.7%. 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 | 91 m² | about 980 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 123 m² | about 1,324 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 16.6% | 414 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 13.7% | 342 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L18
2,719 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,221 freehold — 21.0% 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 £147,500 and the median freehold sale £179,950 — a gap of +22.0%. 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 | 2,719 | 21.0% | £147,500 |
| Freehold | 10,221 | 79.0% | £179,950 |
| New build | 601 | 4.6% | £166,250 |
| Existing home | 12,339 | 95.4% | £171,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.8%. 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 530 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 L18
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 £170,259 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.38% 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 L18, 208 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 70 violent, 8 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 42 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 486,088 residents the 2021 census counted in Liverpool, that is 0.43 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 L18
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.
8 state and independent schools have a L18 postcode: 6 primary, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool College | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,685 |
| Calderstones School | Secondary | Community school | 1,592 |
| Dovedale Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 839 |
| Greenbank Primary School | Primary | Community school | 434 |
| Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 417 |
| Booker Avenue Junior School | Primary | Community school | 416 |
| Booker Avenue Infant School | Primary | Community school | 300 |
| St Anthony of Padua Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 217 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Mossley Hill Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| West Allerton Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Aigburth Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Cressington Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
Section 09
How L18 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L18 sits above that national figure — +8.1%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,903 per square metre, across 2,511 of the 12,940 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 £100 to £3,025,000. 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.
L18 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
Sectors inside L18
- L18 0£185,000 median
- L18 1£141,000 median
- L18 2£225,000 median
- L18 3£198,975 median
- L18 4£235,000 median
- L18 5£156,000 median
- L18 6£249,999 median
- L18 7£167,000 median
- L18 8£175,000 median
- L18 9£205,000 median
The closest districts
- L152.1 km · £92,000
- L172.2 km · £140,000
- L253.0 km · £145,000
- L144.6 km · £94,000
- L365.8 km · £100,000
- L35.9 km · £130,000
- L126.1 km · £112,950
- CH627.1 km · £120,000
This district mostly covers Liverpool.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L18?
The median price paid in L18 across every sale on the register is £170,259. 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 L18?
12,940 sales are on record for L18, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L18 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were L18 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £325,000, 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 L18?
£1,903 per square metre, from the 2,511 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 18 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, “L18 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.