Sefton
L21 house prices in Sefton
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Sefton, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£155,000
Range £89,800–£262,750 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Sept 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in L21: the typical (median) sold price is £155,000, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). L21 is an active market, with about 23 recorded sales a month. By property type, 53% were terraced homes (typically £130,000) and 31% were semi-detached homes (typically £199,423).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £2,583 a year: Sefton's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Sefton, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on L21: steady sales, so price from the evidence
Roughly 23 homes a month change hands in L21, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
If you are selling, L21 sales mostly ran from £89,800 to £262,750, so find the sold homes closest to yours and price against those; buyers can compare homes at this pace but are not spoilt for choice.
Sell houseIf you are buying, L21 sits well below the UK average for typical prices, so find out why prices run lower here before deciding it is good value.
Before an offer goes in on any L21 home, look at what has been applied for nearby (476 applications on record within 500 m), flood risk over the long term and council tax (Band D is £2,583 a year), and leave the title to your conveyancer.
Prices are only part of the picture: the free L21 OfferCheck adds flood, crime, planning, council tax and schools, and the Report says which deserve your attention.
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At a glance
L21 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£155,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
23.0
Across 250 sales
Council tax, Band D
£2,583
A year
On the map
Where L21 sits in Sefton
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in L21
78, HORNBY BOULEVARD, LIVERPOOL
Terraced · Leasehold · 21 Aug 2026
£80,000
54, THORNBRIDGE AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 20 Aug 2026
£175,000
28, HIGHFIELD ROAD, LIVERPOOL
Terraced · Freehold · 18 Aug 2026
£197,500
10, RICHMOND AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£186,000
85, FIELD LANE, LIVERPOOL
Semi-detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£207,500
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). L21 includes the Bootle West ward.
The data, honestly
House prices in L21
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in L21 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £276,445, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £130,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 15 | £276,445 | £207,000–£328,338 |
| Semi-detached | 76 | £199,423 | £152,000–£275,000 |
| Terraced | 129 | £130,000 | £80,000–£185,800 |
| Flat / maisonette | 23 | £130,000 | £76,000–£144,040 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Sept 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in L21
The quarterly typical price rose 7.0%, from £177,500 in Q3 2025 (18 sales) to £190,000 in Q3 2026 (33 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2025 | £177,500 | 18 |
| Q4 2025 | £160,000 | 77 |
| Q1 2026 | £131,250 | 84 |
| Q2 2026 | £138,750 | 38 |
| Q3 2026 | £190,000 | 33 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Sept 2025 and 21 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of L21 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most L21 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £89,800 and £262,750, around a typical £155,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Sept 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in L21
Terraced homes were 53% of recorded sales (129 of 243). 73% of sales were freehold and 27% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached6%
- Semi-detached31%
- Terraced53%
- Flat / maisonette9%
Tenure
- Freehold73%
- Leasehold27%
See the figures
183 freehold (73%) and 67 leasehold (27%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in L21, including 6 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 24 Sept 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
In plain English
What the Sefton (L21) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £276,445 against £130,000 for flats: about 2.1 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- This is an active district: about 23 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 24 September 2025 and 21 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on L21
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in L21
£2,583
Band D a year in Sefton, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,722 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,009 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,296 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,583 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,157 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,731 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,305 |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,166 |
These are Sefton's charges for 2026-27, the authority L21 falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for Sefton · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near L21
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School.
All schools
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 7LX
234 m
Good · 2015
St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 8NZ
481 m
Good · 2022
Rimrose Hope CofE Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 1AD
771 m
Outstanding · 2023
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 3TE
788 m
Good · 2024
Educ8 Liverpool
Special schools · L21 3TG
912 m
Not graded
Hatton Hill Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 9NZ
943 m
Good · 2022
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L21 8JH
1.0 km
Good · 2017
St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · L20 6ED
1.1 km
Outstanding · 2012
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the L21 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 7 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near L21
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around L21
476
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 12 October 2026.
Recent applications
Sefton/DC/2026/01565Undecided
210 m
Tree preservation order for the 25% crown thinning for 1.No Lime tree. (TPO25)
Received 2026-09-21
Sefton/DC/2026/01246Undecided
222 m
High Hedge Complaint.
Received 2026-07-23
Sefton/DC/2026/01066Undecided
46 m
Prior notification for the change of use from a former GP doctors' surgery (Use Class E(e) to a single-family residential dwellinghouse (Use Class C3).
Received 2026-06-23
Sefton/DC/2026/01024Rejected
298 m
Change of use of the premises to a hot food takeaway along with the installation of a new shop frontage and a flue extraction to the rear
Received 2026-06-17 · decided 2026-10-08
Sefton/DC/2026/00775Conditions
338 m
Installation of dormers to the rear of existing building and all associated works
Received 2026-05-06 · decided 2026-08-07
Sefton/DC/2026/00384Conditions
458 m
Single storey side extension
Received 2026-03-12 · decided 2026-05-05
Applications are matched within 500 m of the L21 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for L21 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 476 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 12 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for L21
Decile 5 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled L21 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 1 to decile 8, with a median of decile 5 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
L21 9QB, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 5 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so L21 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in L21: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in L21, band by band
Sefton's council tax for 2026-27 set against the L21 median sold price of £155,000 across 250 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearSefton | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £155,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,722 | £144 | 1.11% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,009 | £167 | 1.30% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,296 | £191 | 1.48% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,583 | £215 | 1.67% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,157 | £263 | 2.04% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,731 | £311 | 2.41% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,305 | £359 | 2.78% |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,166 | £431 | 3.33% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the L21 median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 250 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Sefton, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in L21 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 243 distinct addresses in the records we hold for L21. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
78, HORNBY BOULEVARD, LIVERPOOL
L21 8HQ · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£80,000
2026-08-21
54, THORNBRIDGE AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 5JX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£175,000
2026-08-20
28, HIGHFIELD ROAD, LIVERPOOL
L21 9NH · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£197,500
2026-08-18
10, RICHMOND AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 2PT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£186,000
2026-08-14
85, FIELD LANE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9QB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£207,500
2026-08-07
8, SERVIA ROAD, LIVERPOOL
L21 8LZ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,000
2026-08-03
14, BRENDON AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9NW · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£165,000
2026-07-31
8, ST WILFRIDS DRIVE, LIVERPOOL
L21 8QU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£290,000
2026-07-31
33, CECIL ROAD, LIVERPOOL
L21 1DB · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£225,000
2026-07-30
28, ORRELL ROAD, LIVERPOOL
L21 8NU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£395,000
2026-07-30
15, BLEASDALE WAY, LIVERPOOL
L21 0JD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-07-30
CANAL VIEW COURT, FIELD LANE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9QE · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 4 recorded sales
£133,000
2026-07-29
27, ALWYN AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9NY · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£217,000
2026-07-24
12, DARTFORD DRIVE, LIVERPOOL
L21 8LT · Semi-detached · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£195,000
2026-07-24
3, LATHOM AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 1EB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£175,000
2026-07-17
8, HENLEY AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 2PU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£235,000
2026-07-17
19, NORWOOD AVENUE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9HT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£349,950
2026-07-17
162, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL
L21 9LQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£205,000
2026-07-17
24, BRUNEL DRIVE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9LN · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£167,500
2026-07-14
36, BEECH GROVE, LIVERPOOL
L21 1BP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£130,000
2026-07-14
93, FIELD LANE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9QB · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-07-13
35, HINTON STREET, LIVERPOOL
L21 8LS · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£95,000
2026-07-10
46, BRUNEL DRIVE, LIVERPOOL
L21 9LP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£190,000
2026-07-10
6, HORNBY BOULEVARD, LIVERPOOL
L21 8HG · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£95,000
2026-07-10
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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The closest districts to L21 by straight-line distance between district centres.
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- House prices in L20 (Bootle) 1.4 miles
- House prices in L30 (Bootle) 1.5 miles
- House prices in L23 (Liverpool) 1.7 miles
- House prices in L9 (Liverpool) 2 miles
- House prices in L4 (Walton) 2.8 miles
- House prices in L10 (Liverpool) 3 miles
- House prices in L5 (Everton) 3.4 miles
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Data sources
Every L21 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.