Merrilocks Road, Liverpool house prices are built from 192 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -5.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -31.5%.
Median price paid
£168,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-5.4%
Change in real terms
-31.5%
Median per m²
£1,917
HM Land Registry192 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Merrilocks Road, Liverpool prices moved
The chart tracks the median Merrilocks Road, Liverpool house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 | 3 | £90,000 | £199,843 |
| 2000s | 7 | £224,000 | £408,062 |
| 2010s | 6 | £152,500 | £215,025 |
| 2020s | 5 | £190,000 | £194,130 |
The highest yearly median on record for Merrilocks Road, Liverpool is £304,000 in 2004; the lowest is £64,000 in 2000. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £90,000 to £217,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £190,827, so the real change over the whole record is +16.5% — about +0.55% 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: -5.4% in cash against -31.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 27 Mar 2026 | Detached | £530,000 | £530,000 |
| 35 | 15 Dec 2025 | Detached | £805,000 | £822,500 |
| Flat 8 Lynton Court, 15 | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| Flat 16 Hamilton Court | 27 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £185,957 |
| Flat 3 60 | 15 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| Flat 17 Hamilton Court | 8 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £156,326 |
| 30 | 4 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £900,000 | £919,565 |
| Flat 6 7 | 25 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| Flat 2 60 | 11 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £161,000 | £164,500 |
| Apartment 12 Nicholas House, 1 | 27 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| Apartment 5 Nicholas House, 1 | 6 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| Flat 3 60 | 11 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £192,000 | £202,030 |
| Flat 5 Hamilton Court | 16 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| Flat 7 60 | 11 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Flat 10 Hamilton Court | 31 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £175,724 |
| 14a | 23 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| Apartment 16 Nicholas House, 1 | 19 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £189,080 |
| 33 | 18 Aug 2023 | Detached | £1,305,000 | £1,410,000 |
| Flat 9 Hamilton Court | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| Flat 1 Lynton Court, 15 | 28 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £166,000 | £192,325 |
| Apartment 2 Nicholas House, 1 | 8 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 24 | 14 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £785,000 | £909,491 |
| Flat 4 Sunningwell, 2 | 15 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £187,500 | £217,235 |
| Flat 4 7 | 10 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £212,000 | £245,620 |
| Flat 7 Sunningwell, 2 | 10 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £202,753 |
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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 Merrilocks Road | £380,000 (2007) | £530,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 8 LYNTON COURT, 15 Merrilocks Road | £50,500 (1998) | £185,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 16 HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road | £48,500 (1998) | £182,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 3 60 Merrilocks Road | £192,000 (2024) | £240,000 (2025) | +25.0% | +21.4% |
| 30 Merrilocks Road | £390,000 (2004) | £900,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| APARTMENT 12 NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road | £225,500 (2007) | £225,000 (2025) | 0.0% | -2.9% |
| APARTMENT 5 NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road | £168,000 (2008) | £215,000 (2025) | +1.5% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 5 HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road | £137,000 (2020) | £175,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 10 HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road | £117,000 (2004) | £167,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 14A Merrilocks Road | £160,000 (2014) | £200,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.9% |
| APARTMENT 16 NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road | £158,000 (2019) | £175,000 (2023) | +2.6% | -2.2% |
| 33 Merrilocks Road | £320,000 (1999) | £1,305,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Merrilocks Road, Liverpool 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 138 | 71.9% | £157,000 | £40,000 – £249,995 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 15.1% | £305,000 | £43,500 – £900,000 |
| Detached | 24 | 12.5% | £400,000 | £96,500 – £1,305,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.5% | £394,000 | £394,000 – £394,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Merrilocks Road, Liverpool
186 of the sales on record are leasehold and 6 freehold — 96.9% 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 £167,750 and the median freehold sale £403,500 — a gap of +140.5%. 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 | 186 | 96.9% | £167,750 |
| Freehold | 6 | 3.1% | £403,500 |
| New build | 14 | 7.3% | £159,973 |
| Existing home | 178 | 92.7% | £169,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -5.9%. 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 10 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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Sefton, 39.6% of 142,149 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 481 | 0.3% |
| B | 11,559 | 8.1% |
| C | 44,235 | 31.1% |
| D | 53,974 | 38.0% |
| E | 23,722 | 16.7% |
| F | 6,022 | 4.2% |
| G | 2,156 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Sefton at £932 a month as of Jun 2026 — £618 for a one-bedroom home and £986 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £168,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.66% 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 L23, 167 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 79 violent, 7 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 279,233 residents the 2021 census counted in Sefton, that is 0.60 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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool
The 2021 census counted 279,233 residents in Sefton across 123,073 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a L23 postcode: 9 primary, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterfield High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,692 |
| Holy Family Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,012 |
| Great Crosby Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 725 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 613 |
| St Michaels Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 547 |
| Ursuline Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 408 |
| Forefield Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 362 |
| Forefield Community Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 318 |
| St Luke's Halsall Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 234 |
| St William of York Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 234 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Blundellsands & Crosby Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Hall Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Seaforth & Litherland Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Hightown Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
Section 09
How Merrilocks Road, Liverpool compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Merrilocks Road, Liverpool sits above that national figure — +6.7%.
Within Liverpool the street ranks 1514 of 6615 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+60.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,917 per square metre, across 48 of the 192 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 £40,000 to £1,305,000. 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.
Merrilocks Road, Liverpool sits in Sefton, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Sefton at 7.0 times median local earnings of £33,028 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
- Water Street£160,000 median
- Blundellsands Road West£204,975 median
- Coronation Road£120,000 median
- Moor Lane£185,000 median
- Nicholas Road£98,750 median
- Alexandra Road£131,475 median
- Blundellsands Road East£81,500 median
- Manor Road£202,500 median
- Edge Lane£75,000 median
- Jubilee Road£107,500 median
- College Road£164,000 median
- Brownmoor Lane£140,000 median
- The Northern Road£156,500 median
- Coronation Drive£198,950 median
- Abbotsford Road£118,000 median
- Myers Road East£134,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 16, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road6 sales
- FLAT 9, LYNTON COURT, 15 Merrilocks Road5 sales
- APARTMENT 15, NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, ELDON LODGE, 48 Merrilocks Road4 sales
- 30 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 12, NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 5, NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 10, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 2, NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 24, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 22, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT B, 9 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 1, NICHOLAS HOUSE, 1 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, LYNTON COURT, 15 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- 34 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, LYNTON COURT, 15 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 7 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- 54 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, ELDON LODGE, 48 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, WESTDENE, 44 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- ASHFORD HOUSE, 52 Merrilocks Road3 sales
- FLAT 18, HAMILTON COURT Merrilocks Road3 sales
- 64 Merrilocks Road2 sales
Back to Liverpool house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Merrilocks Road, Liverpool?
The median price paid in Merrilocks Road, Liverpool across every sale on the register is £168,000. 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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool?
192 sales are on record for Merrilocks Road, Liverpool, 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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -5.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -31.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Merrilocks Road, Liverpool house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £304,000, set in 2004. 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 Merrilocks Road, Liverpool?
£1,917 per square metre, from the 48 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, “Merrilocks Road, Liverpool 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.