L20 2 house prices are built from 909 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £48,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +103.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +47.3%.
Median price paid
£48,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+103.2%
Change in real terms
+47.3%
Median per m²
£529
HM Land Registry909 sales337 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How L20 2 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L20 2 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £19,400 | £43,077 |
| 2000s | 10 | £44,000 | £80,155 |
| 2010s | 10 | £52,250 | £73,673 |
| 2020s | 6 | £91,000 | £92,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for L20 2 is £97,500 in 2023; the lowest is £17,000 in 2002. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £22,875 to £94,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £50,793, so the real change over the whole record is +90.1% — about +2.16% 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: +103.2% in cash against +47.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Antonio Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £90,000 | £90,000 |
| 152 Bedford Road | 17 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 9 Ursula Street | 24 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £65,000 | £66,413 |
| 3 Malcolm Grove | 6 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £151,000 | £154,283 |
| 34 Oriel Crescent | 25 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £127,000 | £129,761 |
| 196 Bedford Road | 13 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 64 Benedict Street | 31 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £93,000 | £95,022 |
| 138 Bedford Road | 11 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 156 Bedford Road | 17 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 70 Beatrice Street | 11 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| 25 Ursula Street | 19 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £94,500 | £96,554 |
| 102 Antonio Street | 18 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £90,000 | £91,957 |
| 47 Olivia Street | 6 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £87,500 | £89,402 |
| 5 Ursula Street | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £72,000 | £73,565 |
| 25 Christmas Street | 12 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £145,500 | £153,101 |
| 6 Beatrice Street | 26 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £95,000 | £99,963 |
| 76 Beatrice Street | 29 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £87,500 | £92,071 |
| 14 Miranda Road | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £113,000 | £118,903 |
| 113 Benedict Street | 25 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £68,000 | £71,552 |
| 10 Olivia Street | 4 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £138,000 | £145,209 |
| 104 Bedford Road | 20 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 146 Olivia Street | 19 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 55A Beatrice Street | 22 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 137 Bedford Road | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £128,000 | £134,687 |
| 22 Hero Street | 24 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £82,000 | £86,284 |
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 L20 2 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Antonio Street | £57,000 (2006) | £90,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| 9 Ursula Street | £44,250 (2016) | £65,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +0.8% |
| 3 Malcolm Grove | £78,000 (2013) | £151,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.6% |
| 196 Bedford Road | £7,000 (1998) | £150,000 (2025) | +12.0% | +9.1% |
| 64 Benedict Street | £27,000 (2003) | £93,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 138 Bedford Road | £34,500 (2002) | £125,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 70 Beatrice Street | £25,000 (2000) | £85,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 25 Ursula Street | £27,500 (1995) | £94,500 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 102 Antonio Street | £35,000 (2016) | £90,000 (2025) | +11.1% | +7.3% |
| 47 Olivia Street | £48,000 (2016) | £87,500 (2025) | +6.9% | +3.3% |
| 5 Ursula Street | £38,000 (2016) | £72,000 (2025) | +7.4% | +3.7% |
| 25 Christmas Street | £34,650 (2005) | £145,500 (2024) | +7.8% | +4.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L20 2 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 | 834 | 91.7% | £47,000 | £4,000 – £176,500 |
| Semi-detached | 45 | 5.0% | £71,000 | £15,500 – £155,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 25 | 2.8% | £70,000 | £34,000 – £86,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 0.6% | £65,000 | £27,000 – £153,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in L20 2
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 801 certificates cover L20 2, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. 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 | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 68 m² | about 732 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 86 m² | about 926 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 14.6% | 117 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 2.4% | 19 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L20 2
428 of the sales on record are leasehold and 481 freehold — 47.1% 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 £47,725 and the median freehold sale £49,000 — a gap of +2.7%. 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 | 428 | 47.1% | £47,725 |
| Freehold | 481 | 52.9% | £49,000 |
| New build | 7 | 0.8% | £70,000 |
| Existing home | 902 | 99.2% | £48,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +45.8%. 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 250 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 L20 2
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 £48,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 22.63% 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 L20 2
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 L20 2 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L20 2 sits below that national figure — -69.5%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £529 per square metre, across 337 of the 909 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 £4,000 to £176,500. 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.
L20 2 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
Other sectors in L20
- L20 0£85,000 median
- L20 3£68,000 median
- L20 4£47,000 median
- L20 5£55,000 median
- L20 6£110,000 median
- L20 7£65,000 median
- L20 8£65,000 median
- L20 9£70,000 median
The wider district is L20.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L20 2?
The median price paid in L20 2 across every sale on the register is £48,000. 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 L20 2?
909 sales are on record for L20 2, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L20 2 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +103.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +47.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were L20 2 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £97,500, set in 2023. 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 L20 2?
£529 per square metre, from the 337 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 29 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, “L20 2 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.