Nicholas Road, Liverpool house prices are built from 270 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,750. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +78.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +29.5%.
Median price paid
£98,750
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+78.8%
Change in real terms
+29.5%
Median per m²
£1,579
HM Land Registry270 sales71 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Nicholas Road, Liverpool prices moved
The chart tracks the median Nicholas Road, Liverpool 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 | 4 | £43,475 | £96,535 |
| 2000s | 7 | £94,975 | £173,016 |
| 2010s | 7 | £105,000 | £148,050 |
| 2020s | 6 | £145,000 | £148,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for Nicholas Road, Liverpool is £193,975 in 2025; the lowest is £41,875 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £45,500 to £193,975.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £101,031, so the real change over the whole record is +96.2% — about +2.27% 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: +78.8% in cash against +29.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 14 Somerford House, 2 | 27 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| Flat 1 Nicholas Court, 8 | 17 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| Flat 18 Rutland House | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £187,500 | £187,500 |
| Flat 22 Rutland House | 20 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| Flat 7 Nicholas Court, 8 | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat 5 Inverclyde Court, 12 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £206,000 | £210,478 |
| 23 | 26 Aug 2025 | Detached | £570,000 | £582,391 |
| Flat 14 Gaywood Court | 22 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £199,950 | £204,297 |
| Flat 15 Somerford House, 2 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Flat 33 Somerford House, 2 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £37,000 | £37,804 |
| Flat 6 Gaywood Court | 24 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £163,750 | £167,310 |
| Flat 13 Gaywood Court | 3 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £188,000 | £192,087 |
| Flat 17 Rutland House | 3 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| Flat 31 Gaywood Court | 21 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| Flat 40 Somerford House, 2 | 16 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £68,396 |
| Flat 21 Somerford House, 2 | 23 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| Flat 12 Gaywood Court | 21 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Flat 22 Gaywood Court | 1 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £165,728 |
| Flat 42 Somerford House, 2 | 26 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 2 Annexe Somerford House | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £96,000 | £101,015 |
| Flat 12 Somerford House, 2 | 16 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £102,500 | £107,854 |
| Flat 34 Somerford House, 2 | 14 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £81,034 |
| Flat 4 Rutland House | 24 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £180,437 |
| Flat 18 Somerford House, 2 | 13 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £83,950 | £90,705 |
| Flat 19 Somerford House, 2 | 13 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £84,276 |
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 Nicholas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 14 SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road | £78,500 (2011) | £100,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 1 NICHOLAS COURT, 8 Nicholas Road | £55,000 (1998) | £180,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| FLAT 18 RUTLAND HOUSE Nicholas Road | £57,500 (2002) | £187,500 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 22 RUTLAND HOUSE Nicholas Road | £45,000 (1995) | £195,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 7 NICHOLAS COURT, 8 Nicholas Road | £105,000 (2010) | £200,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 5 INVERCLYDE COURT, 12 Nicholas Road | £64,500 (1998) | £206,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 23 Nicholas Road | £420,000 (2020) | £570,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| FLAT 14 GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road | £68,000 (2001) | £199,950 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 15 SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road | £53,000 (1997) | £120,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| FLAT 33 SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road | £70,000 (2004) | £37,000 (2025) | -3.0% | -5.7% |
| FLAT 6 GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road | £64,750 (2002) | £163,750 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 13 GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road | £135,000 (2009) | £188,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Nicholas 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 | 243 | 90.0% | £93,500 | £30,000 – £225,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 7.8% | £405,000 | £140,000 – £670,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 2.2% | £39,950 | £34,000 – £525,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Nicholas Road, Liverpool
265 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 98.1% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £495,000 — a gap of +410.3%. 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 | 265 | 98.1% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 5 | 1.9% | £495,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.4% | £50,000 |
| Existing home | 269 | 99.6% | £100,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.0%. 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 6 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 Nicholas 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 £98,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.33% 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 Nicholas 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 Nicholas Road, Liverpool compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Nicholas Road, Liverpool sits below that national figure — -37.3%.
Within Liverpool the street ranks 3768 of 6615 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £105,000 (-6.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,579 per square metre, across 71 of the 270 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 £30,000 to £670,000. 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.
Nicholas 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
- 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
- Merrilocks Road£168,000 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 17, RUTLAND HOUSE Nicholas Road6 sales
- FLAT 29, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road5 sales
- FLAT 15, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 28, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, NICHOLAS COURT, 8 Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 20, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 38, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 11, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road4 sales
- FLAT 14, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 22, RUTLAND HOUSE Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, INVERCLYDE COURT, 12 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 14, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 31, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 42, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 12, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, RUTLAND HOUSE Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 18, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 19, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, NICHOLAS COURT, 8 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 37, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 26, GAYWOOD COURT Nicholas Road3 sales
- FLAT 13, SOMERFORD HOUSE, 2 Nicholas Road3 sales
- 7 Nicholas Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Nicholas Road, Liverpool?
The median price paid in Nicholas Road, Liverpool across every sale on the register is £98,750. 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 Nicholas Road, Liverpool?
270 sales are on record for Nicholas Road, Liverpool, the most recent completing on 27 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Nicholas Road, Liverpool house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +78.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +29.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Nicholas Road, Liverpool house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £193,975, 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 Nicholas Road, Liverpool?
£1,579 per square metre, from the 71 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 Apr 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, “Nicholas 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.