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Warrington market report WA
The WA (Warrington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 308,937 HM Land Registry entries for the WA postcode area (Warrington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 3,802 registered 2026 sales put the the WA postcode area (Warrington) median at £248,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £315,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,960 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 308,937 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The figures for WA centred on Warrington run across 16 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where WA sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in WA
Take the 3,802 registered 2026 sales in WA and the middle price, the median, is £248,000. The mean lands at £315,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WA
Per square metre, WA homes have averaged around £2,960 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA 13% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £248,000 | £248,000 | 3,802 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 9,204 |
| 2024 | £242,000 | £257,296 | 8,345 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 7,771 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 9,713 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 11,695 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 8,575 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 9,376 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 9,610 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 9,966 |
| 2016 | £167,000 | £233,635 | 9,666 |
| 2015 | £163,700 | £231,308 | 9,564 |
| 2014 | £157,500 | £223,441 | 9,269 |
| 2013 | £152,000 | £218,713 | 7,874 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 6,351 |
| 2011 | £148,000 | £223,423 | 6,144 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 6,058 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 5,581 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 6,945 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 14,295 |
| 2006 | £141,500 | £245,626 | 14,016 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 11,432 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 13,459 |
| 2003 | £103,000 | £189,751 | 13,912 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 13,754 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 11,984 |
| 2000 | £66,500 | £130,506 | 11,310 |
| 1999 | £61,000 | £121,570 | 11,050 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 10,111 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 10,423 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 9,706 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 7,976 |
In cash terms the typical WA home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £248,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £410,000 against £140,100 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WA
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £410,000 | 880 | 77,856 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 1,501 | 116,745 |
| Terraced | £172,000 | 1,071 | 88,315 |
| Flats | £140,100 | 350 | 26,021 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.7% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WA recorded 6,848 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13,020 sales a year before the financial crisis and 7,767 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WA
For renting purposes WA sits in Warrington, the local authority covering most of the WA area (parts fall under St. Helens and Halton, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £885 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £663 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,436, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Warrington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £248,000 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about WA (Warrington)
Are property prices falling in WA (Warrington)?
Is WA (Warrington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA (Warrington)?
Are WA prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in WA today
Everything above is what homes in WA sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,580 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the WA median sold price.
WA registered 6,848 sales in the last twelve months; the 1,580 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
9% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WA home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Listed against sold: the WA mix
Flats are 9% of what sold in WA over 2024 and 2025 but only 1% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 28% | 26% |
| Semi-detached | 41% | 39% |
| Terraced | 29% | 27% |
| Flats | 1% | 9% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (112 here).
Month by month: when WA sells
March is when WA changes hands most (10.7% of the 46,728 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,010 | 6.4% |
| February | 3,754 | 8.0% |
| March | 4,988 | 10.7% |
| April | 3,016 | 6.5% |
| May | 3,460 | 7.4% |
| June | 4,572 | 9.8% |
| July | 3,663 | 7.8% |
| August | 4,136 | 8.9% |
| September | 4,489 | 9.6% |
| October | 3,852 | 8.2% |
| November | 4,012 | 8.6% |
| December | 3,776 | 8.1% |
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £225,000 | £260,000 (+16%) | £325,000 (+25%) | £436,995 (+34%) | £680,000 (+56%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £192,000 (+13%) | £232,500 (+21%) | £290,000 (+25%) | £410,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £129,975 | £140,000 (+8%) | £160,000 (+14%) | £249,475 (+56%) | £435,000 (+74%) |
| Flat | £105,000 | £140,000 (+33%) | £220,000 (+57%) | £315,000 (+43%) | £585,000 (+86%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every WA district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA15 Altrincham (east), Ashley | £500,000 | +14% | 256 |
| WA16 High Legh, Knutsford | £456,000 | +5% | 167 |
| WA14 Altrincham (centre and west), Bowdon | £425,000 | +15% | 231 |
| WA13 Lymm, Statham | £390,000 | +8% | 103 |
| WA4 Warrington, Latchford | £315,000 | +9% | 398 |
| WA6 Frodsham, Helsby | £300,000 | +14% | 119 |
| WA5 Warrington, Burtonwood | £260,000 | +12% | 394 |
| WA3 Lowton, Golborne | £250,000 | +13% | 299 |
| WA1 Warrington, Town Centre | £245,500 | +26% | 152 |
| WA12 Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown | £220,000 | +22% | 159 |
| WA2 Warrington, Dallam | £200,000 | +29% | 185 |
| WA8 Widnes, Cronton | £200,000 | +18% | 332 |
| WA11 Crank, Haydock | £189,000 | +23% | 221 |
| WA7 Runcorn | £180,000 | +20% | 285 |
| WA9 Clock Face, Sutton | £173,000 | +19% | 265 |
| WA10 Eccleston, St. Helens | £170,000 | +17% | 236 |
Thinking of selling in WA? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.