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Town Centre market report WA1 3, Warrington
The WA1 3 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,903 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA1 3 (Warrington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WA1 3 (Warrington) is £221,000, from 65 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £229,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,903 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WA1 3 is one sector of WA1 (Warrington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WA1 3 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 3
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA1 3 home went for £221,000. The mean is £229,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WA1 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA1 3 sales average about £2,590 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA1 3 sits 22% below the national market.
A typical WA1 3 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £221,000 | £221,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £221,000 | £226,285 | 170 |
| 2024 | £194,500 | £206,793 | 152 |
| 2023 | £211,000 | £231,837 | 117 |
| 2022 | £207,000 | £242,731 | 197 |
| 2021 | £186,000 | £235,500 | 196 |
| 2020 | £162,500 | £210,847 | 159 |
| 2019 | £152,200 | £199,498 | 182 |
| 2018 | £151,000 | £201,286 | 166 |
| 2017 | £162,800 | £222,043 | 184 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 212 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 218 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 172 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 132 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 96 |
| 2011 | £114,000 | £172,096 | 97 |
| 2010 | £116,000 | £181,918 | 107 |
| 2009 | £112,500 | £180,845 | 95 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 147 |
| 2007 | £123,000 | £208,642 | 310 |
| 2006 | £119,500 | £207,437 | 289 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 208 |
| 2004 | £96,500 | £175,263 | 232 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 292 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 265 |
| 2001 | £51,500 | £99,006 | 242 |
| 2000 | £45,500 | £89,294 | 219 |
| 1999 | £41,500 | £82,707 | 194 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 203 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 247 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 194 |
| 1995 | £36,800 | £79,998 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical WA1 3 home went from £36,800 in 1995 to £221,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 176%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA1 3 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 2003 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−12.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in WA1 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 65 sales completed in WA1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 257 sales a year before the financial crisis and 140 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 shape of the WA1 3 market
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 3 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of WA1 3
For renting purposes WA1 3 sits in Warrington. The ONS average private rent there is £885 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £663 a month here against £1,436 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Warrington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£885 a month is £10,620 a year, which against the £221,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about WA1 3 (Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in WA1 3 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in WA1 3 (Town Centre)?
Is WA1 3 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are WA1 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 2 | £142,500 | 12 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WA1 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA1 3'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 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.