Devonshire Road, Prenton house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,500. Across the 16 years from 2006 to 2022 the median moved +42.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.0%.
Median price paid
£106,500
Change in cash, 2006–2022
+42.9%
Change in real terms
-7.0%
Median per m²
£1,173
HM Land Registry100 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Devonshire Road, Prenton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Devonshire Road, Prenton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2022. 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 | 1 | £32,000 | £71,055 |
| 2000s | 3 | £105,000 | £191,279 |
| 2010s | 2 | £82,000 | £115,620 |
| 2020s | 2 | £134,000 | £136,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Devonshire Road, Prenton is £162,000 in 2016; the lowest is £32,000 in 1998. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £32,000 to £150,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £66,353, so the real change over the whole record is +161.9% — about +4.09% 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: +42.9% in cash against -7.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 13 | 22 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| Flat 4 37 | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| Flat 1 37 | 17 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £150,196 |
| 2 | 15 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 75 | 29 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| Flat 6 31 | 7 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £59,000 | £68,357 |
| Flat 3 37 | 4 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £98,480 |
| 39 | 28 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| Flat 2 22 | 13 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 32 | 6 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £680,000 | £787,839 |
| Flat 3 63 | 20 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| Flat 1 35 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £183,199 |
| 4a | 29 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £170,000 | £214,785 |
| Flat 1 31 | 9 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £38,000 | £48,011 |
| 4 | 23 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £202,151 |
| Flat 1 37 | 26 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £155,403 |
| Flat 1 22 | 5 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £128,000 | £165,730 |
| Flat 5 31 | 18 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £43,000 | £55,675 |
| 9 | 7 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £284,000 | £367,713 |
| Flat 2 37 | 27 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £71,000 | £92,866 |
| 40 | 5 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £653,989 |
| Flat 1 35 | 7 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £170,037 |
| Flat 4 37 | 24 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £107,254 |
| Flat 6 31 | 8 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £43,000 | £56,243 |
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 Devonshire Road, Prenton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Devonshire Road | £220,000 (2008) | £330,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| 13 Devonshire Road | £50,000 (2002) | £285,000 (2025) | +7.9% | +4.9% |
| FLAT 4 37 Devonshire Road | £82,000 (2019) | £135,000 (2025) | +8.7% | +4.3% |
| FLAT 1 37 Devonshire Road | £51,000 (2013) | £147,000 (2025) | +9.2% | +6.0% |
| 2 Devonshire Road | £170,000 (2007) | £160,000 (2024) | -0.4% | -3.3% |
| FLAT 6 31 Devonshire Road | £43,000 (2019) | £59,000 (2022) | +11.1% | +6.7% |
| FLAT 3 37 Devonshire Road | £59,000 (2013) | £85,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| 39 Devonshire Road | £262,000 (2015) | £500,000 (2022) | +9.7% | +6.6% |
| FLAT 2 22 Devonshire Road | £35,000 (1996) | £150,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 32 Devonshire Road | £330,000 (2006) | £680,000 (2022) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 3 63 Devonshire Road | £22,500 (2002) | £75,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 1 35 Devonshire Road | £115,000 (2008) | £145,000 (2021) | +1.8% | -0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Devonshire Road, Prenton 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 | 57 | 57.0% | £58,000 | £8,500 – £247,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 26.0% | £210,000 | £19,000 – £500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 16.0% | £220,000 | £95,000 – £680,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.0% | £180,000 | £180,000 – £180,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Devonshire Road, Prenton
61 of the sales on record are leasehold and 39 freehold — 61.0% 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 £59,000 and the median freehold sale £235,000 — a gap of +298.3%. 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 | 61 | 61.0% | £59,000 |
| Freehold | 39 | 39.0% | £235,000 |
A further 11 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 Devonshire Road, Prenton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wirral, 37.1% of 163,066 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 | 419 | 0.3% |
| B | 10,871 | 6.7% |
| C | 49,164 | 30.1% |
| D | 68,077 | 41.7% |
| E | 27,066 | 16.6% |
| F | 5,564 | 3.4% |
| G | 1,905 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wirral at £845 a month as of Jun 2026 — £563 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £106,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.52% 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 CH43, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 1 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.47 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 Devonshire Road, Prenton
The 2021 census counted 320,199 residents in Wirral across 143,252 households. 65.6% of those households own their home and 34.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
14 state and independent schools have a CH43 postcode: 9 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birkenhead High School Academy | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,226 |
| St Anselm's College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,002 |
| Ridgeway High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 858 |
| Birkenhead Park School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 731 |
| Townfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 487 |
| Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 404 |
| Prenton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 393 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 237 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 216 |
| Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Upton Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Birkenhead Central Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Conway Park Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Green Lane Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
Section 09
How Devonshire Road, Prenton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Devonshire Road, Prenton sits below that national figure — -32.4%.
Within Prenton the street ranks 305 of 451 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £124,950 (-14.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,173 per square metre, across 22 of the 100 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 £8,500 to £680,000. 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.
Devonshire Road, Prenton sits in Wirral, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wirral at 6.1 times median local earnings of £35,483 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
- Bidston Road£83,500 median
- Shrewsbury Road£120,000 median
- Woodchurch Road£125,000 median
- Beresford Road£102,750 median
- Hogarth Drive£202,950 median
- Holmlands Drive£139,500 median
- Upton Road£118,488 median
- Durley Drive£125,000 median
- Prenton Dell Road£127,000 median
- Forest Road£76,950 median
- Statham Road£118,000 median
- Grosvenor Road£76,500 median
- Holm Lane£134,000 median
- Prenton Hall Road£144,070 median
- Cearns Road£111,250 median
- Devonshire Place£89,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 1, 35 Devonshire Road4 sales
- 4A Devonshire Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, 31 Devonshire Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 22 Devonshire Road4 sales
- 6 Devonshire Road3 sales
- 13 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 37 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, 37 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, 22 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 22 Devonshire Road3 sales
- 40 Devonshire Road3 sales
- 5 Devonshire Road3 sales
- 11 Devonshire Road3 sales
- 38 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, 1 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, 63 Devonshire Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 37 Devonshire Road2 sales
- 2 Devonshire Road2 sales
- FLAT 6, 31 Devonshire Road2 sales
- 39 Devonshire Road2 sales
- 32 Devonshire Road2 sales
- FLAT 3, 63 Devonshire Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, 37 Devonshire Road2 sales
- 3 Devonshire Road2 sales
Back to Prenton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Devonshire Road, Prenton?
The median price paid in Devonshire Road, Prenton across every sale on the register is £106,500. 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 Devonshire Road, Prenton?
100 sales are on record for Devonshire Road, Prenton, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Devonshire Road, Prenton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.9% between 2006 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Devonshire Road, Prenton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £162,000, set in 2016. 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 Devonshire Road, Prenton?
£1,173 per square metre, from the 22 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 30 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, “Devonshire Road, Prenton 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.