Waterloo Road, Liverpool house prices

Waterloo Road, Liverpool house prices are built from 977 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.1%.

HM Land Registry977 sales347 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Waterloo Road, Liverpool 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Waterloo Road, Liverpool is £215,000 in 2022; the lowest is £75,750 in 1999. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £80,045 to £205,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £177,738, so the real change over the whole record is +15.3% — about +0.46% 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: +36.7% in cash against -2.1% 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.

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.

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 Waterloo Road, Liverpool values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waterloo Road, Liverpool is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

948 of the sales on record are leasehold and 29 freehold — 97.0% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £152,500 — a gap of +27.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -44.8%. 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 40 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.

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.

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 £122,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.87% 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 L3, 1,604 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 451 violent, 51 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 182 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 9.6 times busier.

Against the 486,088 residents the 2021 census counted in Liverpool, that is 3.30 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.

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.

5 state and independent schools have a L3 postcode: 3 primary, 1 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waterloo Road, Liverpool sits below that national figure — -22.2%.

Within Liverpool the street ranks 2902 of 6615 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+16.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,574 per square metre, across 347 of the 977 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 £10,000 to £575,000. 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.

Waterloo Road, Liverpool 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.

Streets nearby

• Ellerman Road£134,000 median
• South Ferry Quay£149,975 median
• Old Hall Street£147,550 median
• Pall Mall£123,195 median
• Mann Island£159,300 median
• Quebec Quay£157,000 median
• London Road£60,000 median
• William Jessop Way£157,000 median
• Leeds Street£150,050 median
• Hatton Garden£120,000 median
• Kings Waterfront£131,695 median
• Armstrong Quay£98,500 median
• The Colonnades£222,000 median
• Princes Gardens£48,975 median
• The Anchorage£96,250 median
• Devon Street£66,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 48, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road7 sales
• FLAT 187, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 164, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 284, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 191, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 209, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 216, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 231, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 111, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 198, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 161, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 56, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 326, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 201, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 360, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 109, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 169, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 279, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 65, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 313, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 186, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 323, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 236, WATERLOO QUAY Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 24, WATERLOO WAREHOUSE Waterloo Road4 sales

Back to Liverpool house prices.

What is the average house price in Waterloo Road, Liverpool?

The median price paid in Waterloo Road, Liverpool across every sale on the register is £122,500. 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 Waterloo Road, Liverpool?

977 sales are on record for Waterloo Road, Liverpool, the most recent completing on 8 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Waterloo Road, Liverpool house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Waterloo Road, Liverpool house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £215,000, set in 2022. 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 Waterloo Road, Liverpool?

£1,574 per square metre, from the 347 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 8 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, “Waterloo 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.