L34 8 house prices are built from 58 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 21 years from 1999 to 2020 the median moved +119.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +39.6%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 1999–2020
+119.7%
Change in real terms
+39.6%
Median per m²
£1,412
HM Land Registry58 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How L34 8 prices moved
The chart tracks the median L34 8 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2020. 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 | 2 | £100,000 | £222,047 |
| 2020s | 1 | £362,500 | £370,380 |
The highest yearly median on record for L34 8 is £362,500 in 2020; the lowest is £100,000 in 1996. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £100,000 to £362,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £216,923, so the real change over the whole record is +116.4% — about +3.27% 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: +119.7% in cash against +39.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Dumbreeze Grove | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 29 Ormskirk Road | 11 Feb 2026 | Detached | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 63 Ormskirk Road | 24 Nov 2025 | Detached | £765,000 | £781,630 |
| STRAWBERRY COTTAGE Knowsley Lane | 20 May 2025 | Detached | £226,000 | £230,913 |
| 1 Hewitts Lane | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 57 Ormskirk Road | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £575,000 | £621,264 |
| 5 Dumbreeze Grove | 28 Jul 2023 | Detached | £740,000 | £799,540 |
| 31 Ormskirk Road | 28 Jun 2023 | Detached | £690,000 | £745,517 |
| 65 Ormskirk Road | 14 Oct 2022 | Detached | £837,000 | £969,737 |
| MOSSIDE COTTAGE Hewitts Lane | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 3 Hewitts Lane | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 1 Hewitts Lane | 18 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 19 Ormskirk Road | 6 May 2021 | Detached | £480,000 | £606,452 |
| 39 Ormskirk Road | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £400,000 | £517,906 |
| 65 Ormskirk Road | 12 Nov 2020 | Detached | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 77 Ormskirk Road | 6 Nov 2020 | Detached | £460,000 | £595,592 |
| 27 Ormskirk Road | 2 Oct 2020 | Detached | £450,000 | £582,645 |
| 1 Hewitts Lane | 9 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £198,300 | £256,752 |
| MILL LANE LODGE Mill Lane | 31 Jan 2020 | Detached | £220,580 | £285,599 |
| 53 Ormskirk Road | 19 Jul 2019 | Detached | £660,000 | £863,265 |
| COACH ROAD LODGE East Lancashire Road | 8 Feb 2019 | Detached | £270,000 | £353,154 |
| ROSELANDS Canrow Lane | 13 Sep 2018 | Detached | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 5 Dumbreeze Grove | 5 May 2017 | Detached | £620,000 | £843,822 |
| STRAWBERRY LODGE Knowsley Lane | 15 Jul 2016 | Detached | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| 51 Ormskirk Road | 18 Mar 2016 | Detached | £305,000 | £425,792 |
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 L34 8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Dumbreeze Grove | £375,000 (2012) | £485,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 63 Ormskirk Road | £247,500 (2012) | £765,000 (2025) | +9.1% | +5.9% |
| STRAWBERRY COTTAGE Knowsley Lane | £110,000 (2000) | £226,000 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| 1 Hewitts Lane | £28,000 (2001) | £240,000 (2025) | +9.4% | +6.4% |
| 5 Dumbreeze Grove | £530,000 (2007) | £740,000 (2023) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 31 Ormskirk Road | £295,000 (2002) | £690,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 65 Ormskirk Road | £325,000 (2020) | £837,000 (2022) | +60.5% | +51.8% |
| 39 Ormskirk Road | £60,000 (1999) | £400,000 (2020) | +9.5% | +7.1% |
| 77 Ormskirk Road | £380,000 (2010) | £460,000 (2020) | +1.9% | -0.2% |
| 53 Ormskirk Road | £400,000 (2003) | £660,000 (2019) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| ROSELANDS Canrow Lane | £56,000 (1997) | £160,000 (2018) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 6 OLD MILL LANE COTTAGES Old Mill Lane | £68,000 (1996) | £149,000 (2003) | +11.9% | +9.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. L34 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 50 | 86.2% | £295,000 | £56,000 – £837,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 12.1% | £150,000 | £28,000 – £240,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 1.7% | £225,000 | £225,000 – £225,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in L34 8
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 58 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 58 | 100.0% | £250,000 |
A further 2 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 L34 8
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Knowsley, 58.9% of 83,978 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 327 | 0.4% |
| B | 11,832 | 14.1% |
| C | 37,337 | 44.5% |
| D | 24,964 | 29.7% |
| E | 7,221 | 8.6% |
| F | 1,672 | 2.0% |
| G | 625 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Knowsley at £829 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £898 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.98% 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 L34, 151 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 46 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 18 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 154,519 residents the 2021 census counted in Knowsley, that is 0.98 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 L34 8
The 2021 census counted 154,519 residents in Knowsley across 66,073 households. 60.3% of those households own their home and 39.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a L34 postcode: 6 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prescot School | Secondary | Academy converter | 915 |
| Prescot Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 448 |
| Evelyn Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 250 |
| Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 244 |
| Our Lady's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 233 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 211 |
| Knowsley Village School | Primary | Community school | 175 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Prescot Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Eccleston Park Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Whiston Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Huyton Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
Section 09
How L34 8 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. L34 8 sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,412 per square metre, across 2 of the 58 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 £28,000 to £837,000. 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.
L34 8 sits in Knowsley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Knowsley at 5.0 times median local earnings of £39,064 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 L34
- L34 0£131,000 median
- L34 1£180,000 median
- L34 2£136,000 median
- L34 3£226,000 median
- L34 4£251,995 median
- L34 5£93,000 median
- L34 6£83,650 median
- L34 9£209,625 median
The wider district is L34.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in L34 8?
The median price paid in L34 8 across every sale on the register is £250,000. 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 L34 8?
58 sales are on record for L34 8, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have L34 8 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +119.7% between 1999 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +39.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were L34 8 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £362,500, set in 2020. 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 L34 8?
£1,412 per square metre, from the 2 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 22 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, “L34 8 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.