Molyneux Drive, Wallasey house prices are built from 118 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 19 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £95,250. Across the 10 years from 2007 to 2017 the median moved -7.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -27.7%.
Median price paid
£95,250
Change in cash, 2007–2017
-7.6%
Change in real terms
-27.7%
Median per m²
£1,121
HM Land Registry118 sales26 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Molyneux Drive, Wallasey prices moved
The chart tracks the median Molyneux Drive, Wallasey house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2017. 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 | £39,675 | £88,097 |
| 2000s | 5 | £94,950 | £172,971 |
| 2010s | 1 | £121,000 | £170,610 |
The highest yearly median on record for Molyneux Drive, Wallasey is £131,000 in 2007; the lowest is £39,225 in 1999. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £121,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,769, so the real change over the whole record is +89.8% — about +3.10% 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: -7.6% in cash against -27.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 19 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £251,000 | £256,457 |
| 18 | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 40 | 20 Jun 2025 | Detached | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 3 | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £175,739 |
| Flat 4 Sandrock | 31 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £114,000 | £123,172 |
| Flat 2 Sandrock | 8 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £121,652 |
| 1 | 1 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 47 | 14 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £178,000 | £206,228 |
| 84 | 20 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 82 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £115,000 | £145,296 |
| 24 | 31 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 88 | 27 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 50 | 1 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £105,000 | £135,950 |
| 56 | 7 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £155,372 |
| 27 | 22 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £248,516 |
| 66 | 26 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £163,497 |
| 4 | 26 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £163,497 |
| 54 | 29 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £122,000 | £159,573 |
| 74 | 11 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £117,000 | £155,926 |
| 68 | 5 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £123,000 | £163,922 |
| 51 | 29 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £135,000 | £179,915 |
| 10 | 5 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £152,500 | £203,237 |
| 19 | 19 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £132,000 | £179,653 |
| 61 | 19 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £136,000 | £185,097 |
| Flat 1 Sandrock | 18 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £114,324 |
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 Molyneux Drive, Wallasey values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Molyneux Drive | £46,000 (1995) | £251,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 18 Molyneux Drive | £146,642 (2008) | £260,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 40 Molyneux Drive | £155,000 (2004) | £230,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 4 SANDROCK Molyneux Drive | £94,950 (2004) | £114,000 (2023) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| FLAT 2 SANDROCK Molyneux Drive | £95,500 (2005) | £105,000 (2022) | +0.6% | -2.1% |
| 88 Molyneux Drive | £115,000 (2015) | £140,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.5% |
| 50 Molyneux Drive | £67,500 (2003) | £105,000 (2020) | +2.6% | +0.4% |
| 56 Molyneux Drive | £42,000 (2000) | £120,000 (2020) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
| 27 Molyneux Drive | £141,000 (2007) | £190,000 (2019) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 66 Molyneux Drive | £120,000 (2010) | £125,000 (2019) | +0.5% | -1.7% |
| 4 Molyneux Drive | £70,000 (2003) | £125,000 (2019) | +3.7% | +1.3% |
| 54 Molyneux Drive | £39,950 (1999) | £122,000 (2019) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Molyneux Drive, Wallasey 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 | 48 | 40.7% | £109,000 | £27,000 – £260,000 |
| Terraced | 33 | 28.0% | £105,000 | £15,000 – £205,300 |
| Flat or maisonette | 27 | 22.9% | £84,000 | £38,000 – £172,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 8.5% | £146,000 | £59,000 – £230,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Molyneux Drive, Wallasey
25 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 21.2% 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 £84,000 and the median freehold sale £110,000 — a gap of +31.0%. 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 | 25 | 21.2% | £84,000 |
| Freehold | 93 | 78.8% | £110,000 |
| New build | 10 | 8.5% | £89,950 |
| Existing home | 108 | 91.5% | £105,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.3%. 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 9 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 Molyneux Drive, Wallasey
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 £95,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.65% 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 CH45, 218 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 97 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 41 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 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.68 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 Molyneux Drive, Wallasey
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.
9 state and independent schools have a CH45 postcode: 6 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,073 |
| St George's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 922 |
| The Mosslands School | Secondary | Community school | 848 |
| The Oldershaw School | Secondary | Academy converter | 774 |
| Liscard Primary School | Primary | Community school | 704 |
| New Brighton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 581 |
| Greenleas Primary School | Primary | Community school | 304 |
| Mount Primary School | Primary | Community school | 300 |
| SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 263 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| New Brighton Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Wallasey Grove Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Wallasey Village Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Bidston Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
Section 09
How Molyneux Drive, Wallasey compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Molyneux Drive, Wallasey sits below that national figure — -39.5%.
Within Wallasey the street ranks 388 of 735 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £90,000 (+5.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,121 per square metre, across 26 of the 118 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 £15,000 to £260,000. 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.
Molyneux Drive, Wallasey 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
- Wellington Road£117,750 median
- Seabank Road£95,000 median
- Claremount Road£82,000 median
- Rake Lane£102,000 median
- Seaview Road£85,000 median
- Penkett Road£97,500 median
- Montpellier Crescent£72,250 median
- Albion Street£145,000 median
- Rowson Street£79,750 median
- Manor Road£85,000 median
- The Cliff£85,000 median
- Warren Drive£245,000 median
- Victoria Parade£75,000 median
- Burbo Way£79,000 median
- Belvidere Road£121,000 median
- Grove Road£170,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 12 Molyneux Drive4 sales
- 54 Molyneux Drive4 sales
- 11 Molyneux Drive4 sales
- 1A Molyneux Drive4 sales
- FLAT 4, SANDROCK Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 56 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 74 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 51 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 15 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 44 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 49 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 58 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 16 Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 1C Molyneux Drive3 sales
- 18 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 40 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- FLAT 2, SANDROCK Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 88 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 50 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 27 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 4 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 66 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- 61 Molyneux Drive2 sales
- FLAT 1, SANDROCK Molyneux Drive2 sales
Back to Wallasey house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Molyneux Drive, Wallasey?
The median price paid in Molyneux Drive, Wallasey across every sale on the register is £95,250. 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 Molyneux Drive, Wallasey?
118 sales are on record for Molyneux Drive, Wallasey, the most recent completing on 19 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Molyneux Drive, Wallasey house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -7.6% between 2007 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -27.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Molyneux Drive, Wallasey house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £131,000, set in 2007. 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 Molyneux Drive, Wallasey?
£1,121 per square metre, from the 26 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 19 Sep 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, “Molyneux Drive, Wallasey 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.