Mostyn Avenue, Wirral house prices are built from 129 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,000. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +29.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.9%.
Median price paid
£168,000
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+29.7%
Change in real terms
+6.9%
Median per m²
£3,608
HM Land Registry129 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Mostyn Avenue, Wirral prices moved
The chart tracks the median Mostyn Avenue, Wirral house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2021. 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 | £67,500 | £149,882 |
| 2000s | 6 | £104,000 | £189,457 |
| 2010s | 3 | £185,000 | £260,850 |
| 2020s | 1 | £240,000 | £245,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Mostyn Avenue, Wirral is £240,000 in 2021; the lowest is £59,000 in 1998. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £67,500 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £143,120, so the real change over the whole record is +111.9% — about +3.18% 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: +29.7% in cash against +6.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 6 Feb 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| Avoca | 18 Jul 2025 | Detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 13 | 11 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| 2 | 3 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £356,800 | £385,508 |
| 6a | 2 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 39 | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 7a | 28 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| 26 | 28 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 4a | 21 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £183,000 | £231,210 |
| 33 | 12 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £202,500 | £255,847 |
| First Floor Flat 16 | 3 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 28 | 26 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £518,000 | £670,689 |
| 2 | 17 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £217,000 | £280,964 |
| 18 | 21 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £209,950 | £274,610 |
| 5 | 26 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £136,000 | £181,248 |
| 6 | 30 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £266,474 |
| 13 | 25 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £426,465 |
| 25 | 13 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 13 | 11 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £218,000 | £290,529 |
| 11 | 25 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £261,993 |
| 2a | 30 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £258,591 |
| 33 | 28 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 2 | 14 Mar 2017 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £265,396 |
| 8a | 12 Dec 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £328,069 |
| 17 | 6 Oct 2016 | Detached | £518,000 | £723,149 |
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 Mostyn Avenue, Wirral values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Mostyn Avenue | £121,000 (1997) | £775,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| AVOCA Mostyn Avenue | £73,000 (1997) | £360,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 13 Mostyn Avenue | £72,500 (1997) | £435,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 2 Mostyn Avenue | £72,000 (1999) | £356,800 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 6A Mostyn Avenue | £36,500 (1997) | £315,000 (2022) | +9.0% | +6.4% |
| 39 Mostyn Avenue | £119,950 (2003) | £225,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| 7A Mostyn Avenue | £165,000 (2006) | £270,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
| 26 Mostyn Avenue | £156,000 (2007) | £255,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 33 Mostyn Avenue | £56,950 (1998) | £202,500 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 28 Mostyn Avenue | £179,950 (2000) | £518,000 (2020) | +5.4% | +3.2% |
| 18 Mostyn Avenue | £89,950 (2001) | £209,950 (2019) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 5 Mostyn Avenue | £69,000 (2001) | £136,000 (2018) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mostyn Avenue, Wirral 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 | 89 | 69.0% | £165,000 | £35,000 – £518,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 35 | 27.1% | £168,000 | £34,000 – £330,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 3.9% | £470,000 | £73,000 – £775,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Mostyn Avenue, Wirral
50 of the sales on record are leasehold and 79 freehold — 38.8% 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 £165,000 and the median freehold sale £169,950 — a gap of +3.0%. 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 | 50 | 38.8% | £165,000 |
| Freehold | 79 | 61.2% | £169,950 |
| New build | 2 | 1.6% | £72,500 |
| Existing home | 127 | 98.4% | £168,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -56.8%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Mostyn Avenue, Wirral
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 £168,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.04% 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 CH48, 57 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 15 violent, 0 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times quieter.
Against the 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.18 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 Mostyn Avenue, Wirral
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.
7 state and independent schools have a CH48 postcode: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calday Grange Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,493 |
| West Kirby Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,181 |
| Hilbre High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,154 |
| West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| West Kirby Primary School | Primary | Community school | 297 |
| Black Horse Hill Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 169 |
| Black Horse Hill Infant School | Primary | Community school | 102 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| West Kirby Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Hoylake Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Manor Road Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Meols Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
Section 09
How Mostyn Avenue, Wirral compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mostyn Avenue, Wirral sits above that national figure — +6.7%.
Within Wirral the street ranks 919 of 2106 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £143,000 (+17.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,608 per square metre, across 2 of the 129 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 £34,000 to £775,000. 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.
Mostyn Avenue, Wirral 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
- Meols Drive£230,000 median
- Raeburn Avenue£138,000 median
- Caldy Road£255,000 median
- South Parade£185,000 median
- Ennisdale Drive£175,000 median
- Orrysdale Road£99,950 median
- Riversdale Road£100,000 median
- Grange Road£214,000 median
- Grange Mount£150,000 median
- Westbourne Road£145,000 median
- Hillside Road£217,500 median
- Kings Drive£145,000 median
- South Road£166,750 median
- Dunraven Road£174,998 median
- Grange Cross Lane£197,250 median
- Gleggside£174,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 Mostyn Avenue8 sales
- 13 Mostyn Avenue7 sales
- 17 Mostyn Avenue6 sales
- 2A Mostyn Avenue5 sales
- 7 Mostyn Avenue5 sales
- 7A Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 33 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 28 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 18 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 8A Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 8 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 14 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 3 Mostyn Avenue4 sales
- 6A Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 39 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 5 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 6 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 21 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 30 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 19 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- 31 Mostyn Avenue3 sales
- AVOCA Mostyn Avenue2 sales
- 26 Mostyn Avenue2 sales
- 11 Mostyn Avenue2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Mostyn Avenue, Wirral?
The median price paid in Mostyn Avenue, Wirral across every sale on the register is £168,000. 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 Mostyn Avenue, Wirral?
129 sales are on record for Mostyn Avenue, Wirral, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Mostyn Avenue, Wirral house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +29.7% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Mostyn Avenue, Wirral house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,000, set in 2021. 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 Mostyn Avenue, Wirral?
£3,608 per square metre, from the 2 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 6 Feb 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, “Mostyn Avenue, Wirral 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.