The map shows the most and least expensive places to buy a house in Merseyside

The L4 postcode area is the cheapest place to buy a house in Merseyside.

Houses in the area – which covers Anfield, Kirkdale and Walton – sold for £111,819 each on average in the 12 months to the end of April.
This is according to the ECHO’s exclusive analysis of the latest price paid data from the Land Registry.

The L4 area recorded the lowest median sales price of any postcode area in our region. The L28 postcode area – which covers Stockbridge Village – is next, with an average selling price of £113,146.

This is followed by L2 (Liverpool city centre) with an average of £117,175, although this is based on just 14 sales.

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The CH41 postcode area (Birkenhead, Claughton, Seacombe, Tranmere and Woodside) is next with an average of £121,136, then L6 (Anfield, Liverpool City Centre, Everton, Fairfield, Kensington and Tuebrook) with an average of £128,182, L20 ( Bootle, Kirkdale and Orrell) with an average of £128,552 and L5 (Anfield, Everton, Kirkdale and Vauxhall) with an average of £128,655.

At the other end of the scale is the CH60 postcode area – which covers Gayton and Heswall – where houses sold for an average of £437,668 each in the year to the end of April.

CH48 – Caldy, Frankby, Grange, Greasby, Hoylake, Meols, Newton, Saughall Massie and West Kirby – follows with an average of £435,146.

It is followed by L38 (Ince Blundell and Hightown) with an average of £373,160, L18 (Allerton and Mossley Hill) with an average of £369,131, L37 (Formby, Little Altcar and Great Altcar) with an average of £350,543 and CH47 ( Hoylake, Meols, Saughall Massie and West Kirby) with an average of £350,119.

You can look up the average house price in your zip code area using our interactive map:

Middlesbrough is the cheapest place to buy a house in England and Wales. Houses in the TS1 postcode area, which covers the city centre, sold for an average of £69,157 each in the 12 months to the end of April.

That’s fewer than any zip code area in the country with at least 50 sales in the past year. Grimsby is the next cheapest place in the country to buy a house.

Homes sold for an average of £77,951 each in the DN31 postcode area. In SR1 – Sunderland city center – the average house sold for £79,908. However, there were only 19 home sales in the area.

In TS3 – Brambles Farm – the average house sold for £86,190, in BD1 – Bradford city center – they sold for an average of £87,653 and in HU2 – Hull – they sold for an average of £87,955 .

Belgravia has the highest average sale price of any postcode area in England and Wales that has had at least 50 sales in the last 12 months.

Homes sold for an average of £4.26 million in the SW1X postcode area. Four other postcode areas had higher averages but all had fewer than 50 sales – W1J (Mayfair) at £6.12m, SW1A (Whitehall) at £5.84m, W1S (Market Hanover) at £5.66m and W1K (Mayfair) at £5.378m.

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