North West · house prices & affordability
What it costs to buy in Liverpool
Thinking of buying in Liverpool? Start with the average price, £183,615. From there, this page works out the deposit, the monthly mortgage at the Bank of England's current quoted rate, and the household income a lender would expect, straight from official numbers, no sales pitch attached.
Data updated 2026-04
- £183,615
- Liverpool metro avg (April 2026)
- +7.2%
- North West region YoY
- £943/mo
- mortgage at 4.76%, 10% deposit
- £37,000
- income a lender would want (4.5×)
According to the Bank of England and HM Land Registry, whose House Price Index draws on more than 1,000,000 registered property transactions a year, the city average price and region trend on this page use the April 2026 House Price Index release and the June 2026 Bank of England quoted-rate snapshot under the Open Government Licence. Our methodology states which geography each figure describes.
Geography used: the headline average price is the Liverpool metro figure from the metros table; the year-on-year change and trend chart are the broader North West region House Price Index series (not a place-level YoY). Deposit, loan, and payment maths are derived from the metro price plus the Bank of England quoted rate for the matching LTV band.
The verdict
Put down the typical 10% deposit on Liverpool's £183,615 average home and you are borrowing £165,253, which comes to roughly £943 a month on today's 4.76% two-year fix - lenders would want a household income near £37,000 behind that.
- £18,362
- 10% deposit needed
- £165,253
- loan at 90% LTV
- £943/mo
- over 25 years at 4.76%
- £1,041/mo
- stress-tested at 5.76%
Price: HM Land Registry (April 2026). Rate: Bank of England quoted 90% LTV two-year fix (June 2026).
House prices in the North West
Where Liverpool sits among all 16 metros
Median house-price inventory across every tracked metro. Liverpool is marked; price level is not a quality ranking.
Liverpool vs all metros by median house price
Where this metro's median price sits among every tracked UK metro
183,615 15th of 16 higher than 1 of 16 metros
Metros, banded by median house price
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more metros. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source HM Land Registry / metro price table · 2026-04
How North West house prices changed recently
| Month | Avg price | MoM | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £218,593 | +1.2% | +4.9% |
| December 2025 | £216,134 | -1.1% | +3.9% |
| January 2026 | £213,891 | -1.0% | +2.9% |
| February 2026 | £216,416 | +1.2% | +3.5% |
| March 2026 | £214,928 | -0.7% | -0.7% |
| April 2026 | £216,138 | +0.6% | +7.2% |
The North West region (+7.2% YoY) is outpacing the UK national average (+3.8%) by 3.4 percentage points in the April 2026 release.
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. MoM = month-on-month change. YoY = year-on-year change. Figures are for the North West region, not Liverpool alone.
Quoted-fix completion sheet
Liverpool: deposit, loan, rate, and stress test LIVERP · Liverpool 90% LTV · 2yr
Liverpool · £943/mo at 4.76% · vs Belfast
- HPI Liverpool ask
- HPI 10% cash in
- REM 90-band fix
- REM near Belfast
- HPI under Belfast
- HPI 25y · stress
Figures use the published Liverpool average and the Bank of England's quoted rate: typical-buyer maths, not a personal quote. Read with Liverpool → · Model your own →
Liverpool in the price neighbourhood
Median house price (£k) among this metro and nearest nationwide price peers
- Newcastle
Newcastle
209 £k
- Nottingham
Nottingham
193 £k
- Glasgow
Glasgow
187 £k
- Liverpool
Liverpool
184 £k
- Belfast
Belfast
181 £k
What this shows Liverpool averages £183,615 (rank 2 of 16). Bars are £ thousands.
Where Liverpool sits in the UK metro comparison
Liverpool sits in the lower-price quarter of the portal's 16-metro comparison set: only 1 entries cost less on average. On the price ladder Belfast sits immediately below at £181,033 and Glasgow sits immediately above at £186,853.
Closest price-to-income multiple elsewhere: Glasgow at 5.7×, against Liverpool's 5.7×.
Liverpool's average price is 5.7 times the recorded median household income of £32,000. That places it rank 2 of 16 in this dataset when lower price-to-income multiples are treated as more affordable; it is a comparison signal, not a lending decision.
Income-context sample for Liverpool
A Liverpool-keyed shuffle of every metro with recorded income. Income is a context signal from the metro dataset, not an affordability assessment for an individual household.
- Glasgow has £1,000 higher, an average price of £186,853, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Bristol has £7,000 higher, an average price of £353,662, and a 9.1× price-to-income multiple.
- Birmingham has £2,000 higher, an average price of £235,682, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Nottingham has £1,000 higher, an average price of £192,543, and a 5.8× price-to-income multiple.
- Cambridge has £12,000 higher, an average price of £462,145, and a 10.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Newcastle has the same recorded median income, an average price of £209,071, and a 6.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Cardiff has £2,000 higher, an average price of £271,166, and a 8.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Manchester has £4,000 higher, an average price of £247,344, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- London has £21,000 higher, an average price of £552,655, and a 10.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Sheffield has £1,000 higher, an average price of £222,080, and a 6.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Brighton has £8,000 higher, an average price of £406,137, and a 10.2× price-to-income multiple.
- Edinburgh has £8,000 higher, an average price of £295,204, and a 7.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Oxford has £10,000 higher, an average price of £475,481, and a 11.3× price-to-income multiple.
- Leeds has £4,000 higher, an average price of £246,882, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Belfast has £2,000 lower, an average price of £181,033, and a 6.0× price-to-income multiple.
Compare Liverpool across the full metro set
Rows are ordered by a Liverpool-keyed shuffle of the full metro set so neighbouring pages do not share the same comparison order. Income multiples add a second disclosed lens from the portal's recorded metro data.
- London is price-rank 16 of 16, with an average £369,040 higher, recorded median household income of £53,000, and a 10.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Belfast is price-rank 1 of 16, with an average £2,582 lower, recorded median household income of £30,000, and a 6.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Birmingham is price-rank 7 of 16, with an average £52,067 higher, recorded median household income of £34,000, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Edinburgh is price-rank 11 of 16, with an average £111,589 higher, recorded median household income of £40,000, and a 7.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Manchester is price-rank 9 of 16, with an average £63,729 higher, recorded median household income of £36,000, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Nottingham is price-rank 4 of 16, with an average £8,928 higher, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 5.8× price-to-income multiple.
- Bristol is price-rank 12 of 16, with an average £170,047 higher, recorded median household income of £39,000, and a 9.1× price-to-income multiple.
- Newcastle is price-rank 5 of 16, with an average £25,456 higher, recorded median household income of £32,000, and a 6.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Sheffield is price-rank 6 of 16, with an average £38,465 higher, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 6.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Oxford is price-rank 15 of 16, with an average £291,866 higher, recorded median household income of £42,000, and a 11.3× price-to-income multiple.
- Brighton is price-rank 13 of 16, with an average £222,522 higher, recorded median household income of £40,000, and a 10.2× price-to-income multiple.
- Glasgow is price-rank 3 of 16, with an average £3,238 higher, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Cambridge is price-rank 14 of 16, with an average £278,530 higher, recorded median household income of £44,000, and a 10.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Leeds is price-rank 8 of 16, with an average £63,267 higher, recorded median household income of £36,000, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Cardiff is price-rank 10 of 16, with an average £87,551 higher, recorded median household income of £34,000, and a 8.0× price-to-income multiple.
Compare beyond geography
Nationwide peers by price & affordability multiple
Two PlainMortgage-derived comparison paths for Liverpool: nearest median house price and nearest price-to-income multiple across all 16 tracked UK metros. Regional trend charts above stay geographic; these neighbourhoods vary by metric.
Similar median house price
Nearest metros by HM Land Registry average price. This record: £183,615.
Similar price-to-income multiple
Nearest metros by average price ÷ recorded median household income. This record: 5.7×.
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index 2026-04
Frequently asked questions
- What is the average house price in Liverpool?
The HM Land Registry average for Liverpool is £183,615 in the April 2026 release. It is an average transaction price for the local-authority area, not a valuation of a particular property.
- Where does Liverpool sit on the portal's metro price ladder?
Rank 2 of 16. On the price ladder Belfast sits immediately below at £181,033 and Glasgow sits immediately above at £186,853.
- How does Liverpool compare with similarly affordable metros?
Liverpool's average price is 5.7 times its recorded median household income. The closest comparison in this portal's metro dataset is Glasgow at 5.7 times income; compare the price, local income and deposit assumptions rather than treating either figure as a personal lending decision.
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