Cross Lane, Prescot house prices are built from 148 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 14 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £94,975. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.7%.
Median price paid
£94,975
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+50.0%
Change in real terms
+8.7%
Median per m²
£1,240
HM Land Registry148 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Cross Lane, Prescot prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cross Lane, Prescot 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 | 3 | £39,000 | £86,598 |
| 2000s | 5 | £63,500 | £115,678 |
| 2010s | 2 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 2020s | 4 | £153,500 | £156,837 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cross Lane, Prescot is £175,000 in 2024; the lowest is £34,500 in 2000. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £41,000 to £165,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £91,039, so the real change over the whole record is +85.2% — about +2.08% 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: +50.0% in cash against +8.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 14 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £123,000 | £125,674 |
| 110 | 14 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 3 | 14 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 32 | 12 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 58 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 133 | 10 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £158,000 | £161,435 |
| 48 | 18 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 1a | 11 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| 43 | 6 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £129,000 | £135,739 |
| 142 | 28 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 68 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| 107 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 9 | 22 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 110 | 16 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £131,530 |
| 119 | 15 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 64 | 19 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 22 | 3 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £122,000 | £131,816 |
| 106 | 24 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £191,000 | £206,368 |
| 69 | 24 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £115,000 | £124,253 |
| 26 | 27 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 95 | 6 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 96 | 2 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 3a | 29 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 155 | 26 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 50 | 22 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £167,995 |
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 Cross Lane, Prescot values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 Cross Lane | £125,000 (2024) | £170,000 (2025) | +36.0% | +32.1% |
| 32 Cross Lane | £40,000 (2001) | £190,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.8% |
| 58 Cross Lane | £105,000 (2007) | £160,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 48 Cross Lane | £115,000 (2015) | £185,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 1A Cross Lane | £60,000 (2003) | £195,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.6% |
| 142 Cross Lane | £130,000 (2020) | £190,000 (2024) | +10.0% | +4.4% |
| 107 Cross Lane | £18,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2024) | +9.1% | +6.3% |
| 9 Cross Lane | £30,000 (2003) | £190,000 (2024) | +9.2% | +6.2% |
| 106 Cross Lane | £145,000 (2017) | £191,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +0.7% |
| 26 Cross Lane | £57,000 (2003) | £135,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 3A Cross Lane | £73,000 (2020) | £195,000 (2022) | +63.4% | +54.6% |
| 155 Cross Lane | £150,000 (2007) | £195,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cross Lane, Prescot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 111 | 75.0% | £100,000 | £18,000 – £205,000 |
| Terraced | 35 | 23.6% | £65,000 | £17,500 – £190,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.4% | £94,000 | £94,000 – £120,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cross Lane, Prescot
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 109 freehold — 26.4% 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 £71,000 and the median freehold sale £100,000 — a gap of +40.8%. 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 | 39 | 26.4% | £71,000 |
| Freehold | 109 | 73.6% | £100,000 |
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 Cross Lane, Prescot
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Halton, 51.9% of 60,140 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 311 | 0.5% |
| B | 6,697 | 11.1% |
| C | 24,200 | 40.2% |
| D | 21,362 | 35.5% |
| E | 6,046 | 10.1% |
| F | 1,179 | 2.0% |
| G | 345 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Halton at £741 a month as of Jun 2026 — £541 for a one-bedroom home and £817 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £94,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.36% 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 L35, 223 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 94 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 128,478 residents the 2021 census counted in Halton, that is 1.74 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 Cross Lane, Prescot
The 2021 census counted 128,478 residents in Halton across 55,951 households. 61.2% of those households own their home and 38.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a L35 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainhill High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,535 |
| Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 730 |
| Whiston Willis Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 419 |
| St Ann's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 404 |
| Longton Lane Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 284 |
| St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 279 |
| Halsnead Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 252 |
| St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 230 |
| St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 229 |
| St Luke's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 213 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Whiston Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Rainhill Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Prescot Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Eccleston Park Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
Section 09
How Cross Lane, Prescot compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cross Lane, Prescot sits below that national figure — -39.7%.
Within Prescot the street ranks 375 of 570 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £115,000 (-17.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,240 per square metre, across 5 of the 148 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 £17,500 to £205,000. 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.
Cross Lane, Prescot sits in Halton, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Halton at 5.2 times median local earnings of £37,336 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
- Warrington Road£120,000 median
- Manorwood Drive£62,725 median
- St James Road£125,000 median
- Longton Lane£95,000 median
- Rainhill Road£82,500 median
- Dragon Lane£103,000 median
- Old Lane£167,000 median
- Sandstone Drive£96,950 median
- Scotchbarn Lane£110,000 median
- Parkwood Road£45,750 median
- Shaw Lane£100,000 median
- Cringles Drive£82,500 median
- Chatsworth Road£91,475 median
- Sandhurst Road£95,500 median
- Middleton Drive£229,998 median
- Broadlands£88,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 147 Cross Lane5 sales
- 32 Cross Lane4 sales
- 48 Cross Lane4 sales
- 107 Cross Lane4 sales
- 26 Cross Lane4 sales
- 143 Cross Lane4 sales
- 60 Cross Lane4 sales
- 9 Cross Lane3 sales
- 10 Cross Lane3 sales
- 35 Cross Lane3 sales
- 113 Cross Lane3 sales
- 110 Cross Lane2 sales
- 58 Cross Lane2 sales
- 1A Cross Lane2 sales
- 142 Cross Lane2 sales
- 106 Cross Lane2 sales
- 3A Cross Lane2 sales
- 155 Cross Lane2 sales
- 28 Cross Lane2 sales
- 135 Cross Lane2 sales
- 53 Cross Lane2 sales
- 80 Cross Lane2 sales
- 29 Cross Lane2 sales
- 92 Cross Lane2 sales
Back to Prescot house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cross Lane, Prescot?
The median price paid in Cross Lane, Prescot across every sale on the register is £94,975. 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 Cross Lane, Prescot?
148 sales are on record for Cross Lane, Prescot, the most recent completing on 14 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cross Lane, Prescot house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cross Lane, Prescot house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,000, set in 2024. 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 Cross Lane, Prescot?
£1,240 per square metre, from the 5 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 14 Nov 2025. 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, “Cross Lane, Prescot 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.