Liverpool is a small town on Chocolate Bayou in southern Brazoria County, quiet, rural in feel, and a long way in character from the growth happening thirty minutes north.
Its ZIP, 77577, produces the slowest figure in our whole dataset. The median property here takes 130 days to sell. The next slowest ZIPs in the Houston area sit at 116, and most of the metro is well under 70.
There are three active listings. Three. At that scale almost every statistic is unreliable except the direction, and the direction is unambiguous: if you list a house in Liverpool, you should plan for a long wait.
The Liverpool Market, ZIP 77577
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Median sale price | $429,000 |
| Median days on market | 130 days |
| Months of inventory | 3.00 |
| Active listings | 3 |
| One-year return | +0.60% |
| 20-year total return | +69.6% |
⚠️ With three listings, the median and the supply figure are close to meaningless as precise numbers. The 130-day figure is the slowest of the 115 Houston-area ZIPs we track.
Source: HouseCanary ZIP-level market data, July 2026. Last verified 27 July 2026.
What Actually Decides a Liverpool Sale
How long you can wait. This is the whole question here. A house in decent order will sell. It will take a long time, and a listing is a commitment of months rather than weeks.
No comparable sales. Three listings and few closings means an appraiser working a financed purchase has effectively nothing to reason from, so valuations come in conservatively and financed contracts fail.
Rural land and Chocolate Bayou. Acreage, drainage, bayou frontage and septic all feature here and all price separately. Bayou-adjacent land carries flood questions that a buyer's lender will pursue.
A very specific buyer. People who want Liverpool want rural southern Brazoria County. That is a small pool and it is not reached by marketing to the metro.
The circumstances that bring Liverpool owners to us are inherited rural property and empty houses costing money every month.
We buy throughout Liverpool, including Liverpool, Chocolate Bayou, County Road 171, Highway 35 corridor, Alvin borders, Danbury edge, Hillcrest side and Bastrop Bayou approach.
What a 130-Day Wait Actually Costs
Sellers usually compare a cash offer to a listing price and conclude the listing is better. That comparison leaves out the cost of the months in between, which in Liverpool is not a rounding error.
Do the arithmetic. Add up your monthly mortgage interest, property tax, insurance, utilities and any maintenance. Multiply by the months between deciding to sell and receiving funds. In this ZIP that is 130 days to a contract on the median property, plus 30 to 45 days for a financed closing, plus the preparation time before listing. Five to six months is a fair planning figure.
Then add the agent's commission, which a cash sale does not carry, and any repairs a buyer demands after inspection.
Then add the risk of failure. In a market with no comparable sales, financed contracts fail at the appraisal more often than average. Each failure costs you the whole cycle again.
What the comparison usually shows. Not that a cash offer beats a listing, because usually it does not. It shows the real gap is considerably smaller than the headline difference, and that on a vacant property costing several hundred dollars a month to hold, the gap can close entirely.
Do that sum before you decide. If it favors listing, list, and we will not argue with the arithmetic. If it does not, at least you will have decided on the numbers rather than on the asking price of a house down the road.
Occupied house, no deadline, and you can carry it for six months: list it. Vacant property draining money, an estate, or a date you must meet: run the holding-cost sum, because in this market it usually decides it.
Three Listings, and What Statistics Cannot Tell You
Every figure on this page rests on a base of three active listings, and it is worth being clear about what that means rather than presenting the numbers as though they were solid.
The median is not a valuation. $429,000 is the midpoint of a handful of transactions. If two of those were acreage properties, the figure tells you about acreage. Your own house may be worth half of it or more than it.
The supply figure looks misleading. Three months of inventory would normally indicate a seller's market with tight supply. Paired with a 130-day median it means something different: not that houses are being snapped up, but that almost nothing is listed and almost nothing is selling.
The twenty-year return is the sound one. 69.6 percent across two decades draws on far more transactions than a single quarter does, and it is the figure here we would actually rely on.
What to do instead. Find the handful of properties that have actually sold within a few miles in the past year, look at what they were and what they fetched, and reason from those. It is a short and awkward list, and it beats any figure on this page.
We will name our own comparables when we make an offer. Ask any buyer to do the same, because in a market this thin the alternative is taking somebody's word for it.
