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Typical sold price, PR8
£235,000
250 real sales, 26 March 2026 to 21 August 2026. A rough cash guide is shown below, not a quote.
- Sales in sample
- 250
- Cash guide, 70%
- £165,000
- Cash guide, 85%
- £200,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on selling in Birkdale / Hillside: steady sales, so price from the evidence
Birkdale / Hillside is neither busy nor quiet, at about 51 sales a month, enough to learn from, though the year-on-year comparison is too thin to quote, so lean on the recent sold homes.
To judge an offer, a spread from £107,950 to £432,400 makes £235,000 a poor guide to any one home, so benchmark against near-identical homes, not the headline; roughly 51 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Compare optionsNeither route is obviously right at this pace: a cash sale buys a date, the open market usually buys a better price; expect a cash offer of about 70–85% of market value, which on a typical £235,000 home means roughly £165,000 to £200,000 (a rough guide, not a quote), and test it against sold prices.
Missing paperwork slows many sales, so pull together an up-to-date EPC; planning and building-regulation sign-off for any extension or conversion; and gas and electrical safety certificates now, and ask your conveyancer what else will be wanted.
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Get Cash OfferOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
Key figures
Birkdale / Hillside at a glance
Sourced figures for the district, each one dated.
Most sell between
£107,950 to £432,400
Middle 80% of 250 sales
Gross yield
4.8%
gross, before costs, illustrative
Average rent
£938 a month
Sefton, August 2026
Planning applications
601
Within 500 m of the centre
Local data
What Birkdale / Hillside homes sell for
Real Land Registry sold prices for PR8, each chart with its table underneath.
Price by type
What each type sells for in PR8
Detached homes had the highest typical price in PR8 at £382,500, from 58 sales; flats came to £140,000.
- Detached24%
- Semi-detached45%
- Terraced9%
- Flats23%
See the figures
| Type | Typical (median) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £382,500 | 58 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 110 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 21 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 55 |
HM Land Registry, 26 March 2026 to 21 August 2026. Types with fewer than 10 sales are left out.
Rent by size
What Sefton homes rent for
Average private rent in Sefton was £938 a month in August 2026, a gross yield of 4.8% on the PR8 median price (gross, before costs, illustrative).
See the figures
1 bed £622, 2 bed £814, 3 bed £993, 4+ bed £1,412 a month. ONS source
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026. The rent covers the whole local area, not just PR8.
Planning activity
Planning near Birkdale / Hillside
601 planning applications within 500 m of the PR8 centre. Of the 20 most recent, 3 are still undecided.
- Decided85%
- Undecided15%
Planning detail
Planning activity near Birkdale / Hillside
601 planning applications within 500 m of the PR8 district centre
That count covers every date PlanIt holds. The 20 most recent were received between 7 Aug 2025 and 21 Sept 2026, and 3 of them are still undecided.
Source: PlanIt (planit.org.uk), which gathers local council planning registers. Checked 11 October 2026. This is activity in the area, not at any one address, and coverage and council update speed vary.
View applicationsPlanIt, from local council planning registers. Area activity, not one address.
Contains HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Whatever the reason you need to move on in Birkdale / Hillside (Southport), a cash sale can be quicker and simpler than the open market, though cash buyers usually offer below market value. Want to know what homes in Birkdale / Hillside actually sell for first? See real Land Registry sold prices for PR8.
Rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 (published 16 September 2026): the average monthly rent for all private rented homes in Sefton, up 5.3% on a year earlier. It covers the whole area, not just PR8. Official statistics in development. By size: 1 bed £622, 2 bed £814, 3 bed £993, 4+ bed £1,412.
Gross yield is 12 months of that average rent divided by the PR8 median sale price. It is gross, before costs such as void periods, agent and management fees, repairs, insurance, tax and mortgage interest, and illustrative only: the rent covers a whole local area and every property type, while the price is for PR8, so the two are not a like-for-like pair.
Price spread and sales volume are from HM Land Registry sold prices. Liquidity (sales volume) is a rough guide to how many homes change hands, not a forecast.
Explore sold prices
What actually sold in PR8
Filter by property type and radius around the PR8 centre. Distances use each sale's postcode centroid, so they are approximate.
250 sales match · page 1 of 13
| Address | Price | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EASTLEIGH, 1, GLOUCESTER ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 2AU | £407,500 | 2026-08-21 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 2, ARDLEIGH AVENUE, SOUTHPORTPR8 6UD | £223,500 | 2026-08-21 | Detached | Freehold |
| 9, GROVEWOOD, SOUTHPORTPR8 2NU | £495,000 | 2026-08-20 | Detached | Leasehold |
| 18, MATLOCK ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 5EY | £144,000 | 2026-08-20 | Semi-detached | Leasehold |
| 29, WALNUT STREET, SOUTHPORTPR8 6NF | £305,000 | 2026-08-17 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 27, RIVERMEADE, SOUTHPORTPR8 6PR | £175,000 | 2026-08-17 | Semi-detached | Leasehold |
| 125, LIVERPOOL ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 4NT | £412,500 | 2026-08-14 | Detached | Leasehold |
| 9, MORVEN GROVE, SOUTHPORTPR8 6AY | £280,000 | 2026-08-14 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 48, CLAREMONT ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 4DX | £34,000 | 2026-08-13 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 16, ROTHWELL DRIVE, SOUTHPORTPR8 2SB | £250,000 | 2026-08-13 | Detached | Freehold |
| 15, ROTHWELL DRIVE, SOUTHPORTPR8 2SB | £331,000 | 2026-08-12 | Detached | Freehold |
| 4B, STATION ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 3HS | £98,000 | 2026-08-12 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 38, BIRKDALE COP, SOUTHPORTPR8 5DT | £299,000 | 2026-08-12 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 112, FOREST ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 6HY | £350,000 | 2026-08-11 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 14, REGENT CLOSE, SOUTHPORTPR8 2EJ | £675,000 | 2026-08-10 | Detached | Freehold |
| 14, LEAMINGTON ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 3LB | £235,000 | 2026-08-07 | Semi-detached | Leasehold |
| 8, LIVERPOOL ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 4AR | £205,000 | 2026-08-07 | Other | Leasehold |
| 16, DUNBAR ROAD, SOUTHPORTPR8 4RD | £420,000 | 2026-08-06 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 1, GANTON CLOSE, SOUTHPORTPR8 6JN | £250,000 | 2026-08-06 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 96, BLOWICK MOSS LANE, SOUTHPORTPR8 6UX | £148,000 | 2026-08-06 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
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