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Town Centre market report WA1 2, Warrington
The standing WA1 2 (Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,692 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA1 2 (Warrington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WA1 2 (Warrington) is £142,500, from 12 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £173,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,692 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WA1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA1 (Warrington). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WA1 2 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.
What buyers actually paid in WA1 2
12 sales were registered in WA1 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £142,500. The mean works out at £173,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in WA1 2
The last five years of sales put WA1 2 at roughly £2,250 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA1 2 50% below the national figure.
WA1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £142,500 | £142,500 | 12 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 49 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 37 |
| 2023 | £130,500 | £143,388 | 44 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 61 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 59 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 48 |
| 2019 | £107,500 | £140,907 | 43 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 51 |
| 2017 | £101,000 | £137,754 | 41 |
| 2016 | £96,000 | £134,305 | 54 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 88 |
| 2014 | £146,200 | £207,410 | 96 |
| 2013 | £129,200 | £185,906 | 71 |
| 2012 | £130,300 | £191,785 | 54 |
| 2011 | £107,500 | £162,284 | 20 |
| 2010 | £88,800 | £139,261 | 18 |
| 2009 | £88,500 | £142,265 | 19 |
| 2008 | £97,800 | £160,315 | 22 |
| 2007 | £90,800 | £154,022 | 46 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 60 |
| 2005 | £132,500 | £235,797 | 245 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 69 |
| 2003 | £69,500 | £128,036 | 47 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 59 |
| 2001 | £45,500 | £87,471 | 43 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 41 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 32 |
| 1998 | £37,200 | £75,091 | 38 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 42 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 58 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 25 |
In cash terms the typical WA1 2 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £142,500 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 82%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 40% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA1 2 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 (+87.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−36.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA1 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 12 WA1 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 76 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of WA1 2
For renting purposes WA1 2 sits in Warrington. The ONS average private rent there is £885 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £663 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,436 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Warrington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £142,500 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 7.5% 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.
How WA1 2 trades
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the WA1 district median, WA1 2 sits 41% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WA1 2 (Town Centre)
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Are WA1 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in WA1 right now
The live side of the market holds 185 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA1 district, not just WA1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Dutton Court, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1
- Redwood Close, Woolston, Warrington
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 WA1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £265,000 | £385,000 (+45%) | £645,000 (+68%) | £1,000,000 (+55%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £210,000 (+17%) | £270,000 (+29%) | £440,000 (+63%) | £692,500 (+57%) |
| Terraced | £134,000 | £145,000 (+8%) | £190,000 (+31%) | £360,000 (+89%) | £675,500 (+88%) |
| Flat | £118,787 | £180,000 (+52%) | £350,000 (+94%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WA1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA1 1 | £202,500 | 8 |
| WA1 3 | £221,000 | 65 |
| WA1 4 | £287,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full WA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WA1 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA1 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA1 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA1 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.