That is the middle of 271 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.1 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
271 homes sold in three years: 20 detached houses, 53 semi-detached houses, 90 terraced houses and 108 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£835K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£675K–£1M
Last 12 months
£1M7 sold
Semi-detached houses£375K
median sale · 53 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£267K–£470K
Last 12 months
£348K16 sold
Terraced houses£258K
median sale · 90 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£202K–£345K
Last 12 months
£313K24 sold
Flats and maisonettes£225K
median sale · 108 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£157K–£335K
Last 12 months
£236K33 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 40% of sales
Detached houses7%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses33%
Flats and maisonettes40%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Hoylake’s homes sold for between £200K and £400K
One sale in ten was under £151K and one in ten over £595K. 44% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £275,000, sits in the £250–300K band
271 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,000 in 1995 to £298,500 in the last 12 months (£195,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
80 sales in the last 12 months, against 190 in 2000, the busiest year, and 80 in 2008. Sales fell by 36% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 45% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hoylake costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hoylake, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£100K
£208K
—
£500K
£560K
£640K
£1M
Semi-detached houses
£65K
£79K
£180K
£206K
£276K
£310K
£348K
Terraced houses
£44K
£59K
£140K
£162K
£180K
£195K
£313K
Flats and maisonettes
£42K
£81K
£148K
£148K
£125K
£160K
£236K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
156 new homes have been sold in Hoylake since 1995; the share peaked at 17% in 2004.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
45% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 9.8% sold leasehold in Hoylake. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Market Street is Hoylake’s busiest street, with 25 sales in three years
19 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Market Street
CH47
25
£220,000
Mostly flats
2
The Kings Gap
CH47
16
£146,750
Mostly flats
3
Trinity Road
CH47
14
£312,500
Mostly terraced houses
4
Meols Drive
CH47
13
£595,000
Mixed
5
Stanley Road
CH47
13
£375,000
Mostly flats
6
Hoyle Road
CH47
12
£465,000
Mostly flats
7
Manor Road
CH47
11
£320,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Queens Road
CH47
9
£590,000
Mixed
9
Alderley Road
CH47
9
£145,000
Mostly flats
10
Cable Road
CH47
8
£314,250
Mostly flats
11
Walker Street
CH47
8
£199,450
Mostly terraced houses
12
Hadfield Avenue
CH47
7
£242,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Lee Road
CH47
7
£203,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Ferndale Road
CH47
6
£317,500
Mostly terraced houses
15
Grove Road
CH47
6
£288,500
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Meols Drive: £595,000
Hoylake median£275K
Meols Drive£595K
Queens Road£590K
North Parade£522K
Hoyle Road£465K
Stanley Road£375K
Cheapest streets
Birkenhead Road: £135,000
Hoylake median£275K
Birkenhead Road£135K
Alderley Road£145K
The Kings Gap£147K
Rudd Street£172K
Walker Street£199K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Merseyside
Hoylake is the 5th most expensive of 25 towns in Merseyside
Hoylake is one of Merseyside’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Hoylake
What is the average house price in Hoylake?
The median home in Hoylake sold for £275,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 271 standard sales (£298,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £835,000, semi-detached houses £375,000, terraced houses £257,500 and flats and maisonettes £225,000.
Are house prices going up in Hoylake?
The median was £266,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£261,000), and £298,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Hoylake each year?
80 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 115 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Hoylake?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Meols Drive (CH47, £595,000), Queens Road (CH47, £590,000) and North Parade (CH47, £522,000).
Is Hoylake expensive for Merseyside?
Hoylake is the 5th most expensive of 25 towns of 2,500 or more in Merseyside by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.