Average house prices increased across all boroughs of Merseyside compared to a year ago
23:45, 20 Sep 2025Updated 09:24, 21 Sep 2025
Liverpool is experiencing rising house prices
House prices are booming in Liverpool, with the average home costing £16,000 more than a year ago. It cost £182,000 to buy the average home in Liverpool in the 12 months to July, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
That’s 9.7% more than a year earlier, an increase of £16,000. Back in 2023, the average home in the city was £159,000, meaning prices have increased £23,000 in just two years. Sefton saw the next largest increase in Merseyside.
The average house price increased by 7.9% to £219,000, which is also an increase of £16,000 compared to a year earlier.
In Knowsley, average house prices increased by 6.4% to £189,000. In Wirral they increase by 3.4% to £210,000 and in St. Helens by 2.0% to £172,000.
Local authority
Average house price
Annual change (%)
Liverpool
£182,000
9.7
Sefton
£219,000
7.9
Knowsley
£189,000
6.4
Wirral
£210,000
3.4
St. Helens
£172,000
2
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Average UK house prices increased by 2.8%, to £270,000, in the 12 months to July 2025.
That’s an increase of £7,000 per home on average.
The annual growth rate is down from 3.6% in June but up from 0.5% in July last year. In July 2023, prices fell by 0.7% compared to a year earlier.
The period between July 2023 and March 2024 was the first time since 2012 that house prices in the UK had fallen compared to the previous year.
A total of 61 of the UK’s 360 local authority areas have seen a fall in average house prices in the 12 months to July, and in another 36, prices have either remained the same or grown by 1.0% or less.
The East Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne has seen the biggest decrease in average property prices over the last 12 months.
The average home there sold for £243,000 in the year to July. That’s 10.4% less than a year earlier.
In Ceredigion, Wales, prices fell by an average of 6.8% to £218,000, while in Wandsworth the average fall was 6.4% to £691,000 and in Mid Devon it was 5.6% to £281,000.
The property market in London is struggling more than anywhere else in the country.
House prices increased by just 0.7% in the capital over the last 12 months.
That’s compared to increases such as 7.9% in the North East, 5.5% in Northern Ireland, and 4.8% in the North West – the three regions with the highest growth.
In fact, 13 London boroughs have seen property prices decrease over the last 12 months – Wandsworth (-6.4%), Hammersmith and Fulham (-5.3%), City of Westminster (-4.8%), Barnet (-4.7%), Brent (-4.6%), Tower Hamlets (-4.5%), City of London (-4.2%), Islington (-3.9%), Greenwich (-3.6%), Kensington and Chelsea (-2.5%), Lambeth (-1.5%), Southwark (-1.4%), and Hackney (-0.7%).
By contrast, Sunderland is the UK’s property hotspot of the moment.
The average home in the North East city cost £147,000 in the 12 months to July. That’s 12.7% more than a year earlier.
In Renfrewshire, the average home costs £162,000, which is 11.0% more than a year ago.
In Perth and Kinross the increase was 10.8%, in County Durham it was 10.4%, in Halton it was 10.2% and in Hartlepool it was 10.0%.
Inverclyde is the cheapest place to buy a home in the UK.
The average property there costs £114,000, up 3.7% from a year ago.
Burnley is the second cheapest place to buy a home in the UK. The average house price in the Lancashire town is £125,000 (up 5.9%). West Dunbartonshire is third with the average of £125,000 (up 2.8%), in East Ayrshire it’s £129,000 (up 3.8%), and in Hyndburn it’s £129,000 (up 4.4%).