Southport house prices are built from 53,998 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £133,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +32.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.9%.
Median price paid
£133,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+32.7%
Change in real terms
-4.9%
Median per m²
£1,612
HM Land Registry53,998 sales11,474 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Southport prices moved
The chart tracks the median Southport 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £56,000 | £124,346 |
| 2000s | 10 | £135,000 | £245,930 |
| 2010s | 10 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 7 | £214,300 | £218,959 |
The highest yearly median on record for Southport is £220,000 in 2024; the lowest is £51,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,500 to £215,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,354, so the real change over the whole record is +88.0% — about +2.06% 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: +32.7% in cash against -4.9% 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 2 13 Regent Road | 24 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £71,666 | £71,666 |
| FLAT 2 SOUTH HILL, 9A Lord Street West | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 8 Fordham Close | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 19 Rivermeade | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| FLAT 11 LANCASTER GARDENS Lancaster Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £262,500 | £262,500 |
| 27 Castle Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 90 Churchill Avenue | 9 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| APARTMENT 8 REGENCY COURT, 29 Park Road West | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 63 Chatsworth Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 39 Sandringham Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 1 Carnoustie Close | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| FLAT 3 NORTHFIELD, 12 Park Road West | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £157,500 |
| 31A Scarisbrick New Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £75,000 | £75,000 |
| 3 Greenbank Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,300,000 |
| 32 Thirlmere Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 11 Hartland Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 140 Shakespeare Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 42 HOMESANDS HOUSE Park Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £45,000 | £45,000 |
| 14 Larkfield Lane | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £349,000 | £349,000 |
| FLAT 48 PARKSIDE COURT Park Road | 4 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £42,000 | £42,000 |
| 212 Bispham Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £157,500 | £157,500 |
| 21 Larkspur Close | 3 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £107,500 | £107,500 |
| 177 Rufford Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 44 Alma Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 5A Belmont Street | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £274,000 | £274,000 |
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 Southport values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 2 13 Regent Road | £49,950 (1998) | £71,666 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.3% |
| FLAT 2 SOUTH HILL, 9A Lord Street West | £89,000 (1998) | £250,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 19 Rivermeade | £47,950 (1995) | £185,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 8 Fordham Close | £74,950 (1999) | £285,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 11 LANCASTER GARDENS Lancaster Road | £138,250 (2012) | £262,500 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 27 Castle Street | £145,000 (2008) | £160,000 (2026) | +0.5% | -2.3% |
| 90 Churchill Avenue | £97,500 (2016) | £155,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| APARTMENT 8 REGENCY COURT, 29 Park Road West | £145,266 (2009) | £95,000 (2026) | -2.5% | -5.3% |
| 39 Sandringham Road | £290,000 (2017) | £430,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 31A Scarisbrick New Road | £41,500 (1998) | £75,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.5% |
| 63 Chatsworth Road | £265,000 (2007) | £510,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 1 Carnoustie Close | £115,995 (2001) | £175,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Southport 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 | 26,698 | 49.4% | £134,000 | £100 – £925,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 11,702 | 21.7% | £95,000 | £4,486 – £1,150,000 |
| Detached | 11,361 | 21.0% | £230,000 | £200 – £2,500,000 |
| Terraced | 4,237 | 7.8% | £118,745 | £100 – £730,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Southport
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 11,562 certificates cover Southport, and their median floor area is 82 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 82 m² | about 883 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 59 m² | about 635 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 108 m² | about 1,163 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 25.4% | 2,935 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 9.5% | 1,094 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Southport
20,866 of the sales on record are leasehold and 33,132 freehold — 38.6% 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 £118,000 and the median freehold sale £145,000 — a gap of +22.9%. 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 | 20,866 | 38.6% | £118,000 |
| Freehold | 33,132 | 61.4% | £145,000 |
| New build | 3,379 | 6.3% | £155,000 |
| Existing home | 50,619 | 93.7% | £132,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +17.4%. 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 3,166 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 Southport
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 £133,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.38% 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 PR8, 88 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 1 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 11 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times quieter.
Against the 279,233 residents the 2021 census counted in Sefton, that is 0.32 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 Southport
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.
14 state and independent schools have a PR8 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbank High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,025 |
| Birkdale High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 936 |
| Meols Cop High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 916 |
| Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 822 |
| Farnborough Road Junior School | Primary | Community school | 468 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| Birkdale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 430 |
| Farnborough Road Infant School | Primary | Community school | 428 |
| Kew Woods Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 426 |
| Linaker Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 359 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Birkdale Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Hillside Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Southport Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Meols Cop Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
Section 09
How Southport compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Southport sits below that national figure — -15.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,612 per square metre, across 11,474 of the 53,998 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 £100 to £2,500,000. 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.
Southport 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 in Southport
- Liverpool Road1,097 sales
- Promenade759 sales
- Cambridge Road691 sales
- Lord Street587 sales
- Park Road503 sales
- Scarisbrick New Road369 sales
- Guildford Road366 sales
- Preston New Road355 sales
- Queens Road355 sales
- Portland Street352 sales
- Lulworth Road351 sales
- Sussex Road350 sales
- Wennington Road334 sales
- Alexandra Road332 sales
- Leyland Road331 sales
- Hampton Road315 sales
- Albert Road307 sales
- Duke Street303 sales
- Victoria Court292 sales
- Lytham Road289 sales
- Marshside Road273 sales
- Westcliffe Road272 sales
- Waterloo Road246 sales
- Kew Road239 sales
- Rufford Road228 sales
- Chase Close223 sales
- Station Road223 sales
- Roe Lane220 sales
- High Park Road213 sales
- Sandbrook Road211 sales
- Sefton Street207 sales
- Linaker Street204 sales
- Hart Street203 sales
- Manchester Road200 sales
- Park Crescent200 sales
- Southport Road200 sales
- St Clair Drive200 sales
- Fylde Road197 sales
- Southbank Road197 sales
- Hawkshead Street196 sales
- Heathfield Road196 sales
- Trafalgar Road196 sales
- Bedford Road195 sales
- Preston Road195 sales
- Tithebarn Road189 sales
- Brentwood Court188 sales
- Argyle Road187 sales
- Chester Road187 sales
- Eastbourne Road187 sales
- Grosvenor Road183 sales
- Balmoral Drive181 sales
- Park Avenue181 sales
- Kings Meadow180 sales
- Talbot Street179 sales
- York Road179 sales
- Part Street177 sales
- Haig Avenue175 sales
- Lancaster Road171 sales
- Churchgate170 sales
- Windsor Road170 sales
Postcode districts covering Southport
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Southport?
The median price paid in Southport across every sale on the register is £133,500. 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 Southport?
53,998 sales are on record for Southport, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Southport house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Southport house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, 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 Southport?
£1,612 per square metre, from the 11,474 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 24 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, “Southport 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.