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Town Centre market report WA1 4, Warrington
The standing WA1 4 (Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,590 HM Land Registry entries for WA1 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WA1 4 (Warrington) is £287,000, from 44 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £301,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,590 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WA1 4 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 4 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 a home in WA1 4 sells for
Across 44 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA1 4 home went for £287,000. The mean is £301,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WA1 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA1 4 costs about £3,170 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA1 4 trades 1% above the country as a whole.
A typical WA1 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £287,000 | £287,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 97 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 79 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 73 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 105 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 123 |
| 2020 | £201,800 | £261,840 | 86 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 63 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 99 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 97 |
| 2016 | £167,000 | £233,635 | 123 |
| 2015 | £148,500 | £209,831 | 98 |
| 2014 | £154,000 | £218,476 | 116 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 98 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 61 |
| 2011 | £140,900 | £212,705 | 60 |
| 2010 | £147,500 | £231,318 | 78 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 64 |
| 2008 | £150,600 | £246,865 | 50 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 133 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 157 |
| 2005 | £152,500 | £271,389 | 99 |
| 2004 | £142,000 | £257,900 | 144 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 205 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 171 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 163 |
| 2000 | £75,500 | £148,169 | 164 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 177 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 180 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 161 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 126 |
| 1995 | £50,400 | £109,562 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical WA1 4 home went from £50,400 in 1995 to £287,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 162%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA1 4 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 (+29.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.4% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in WA1 4
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, 44 sales completed in WA1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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.
The rental side of WA1 4
WA1 4 falls under Warrington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £885 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £287,000 median sold price, £885 a month is £10,620 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the WA1 4 market
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA1 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WA1 district median, WA1 4 sits 20% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
WA1 4 (Town Centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WA1 4 (Town Centre)?
Is WA1 4 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA1 4 (Town Centre)?
Where do WA1 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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
Turning to what is actually available: 185 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA1 district, not just WA1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Algernon Street, Warrington, Cheshire...
- Dutton Court, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1
- Redwood Close, Woolston, Warrington
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WA1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in WA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
WA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WA1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA1 1 | £202,500 | 8 |
| WA1 2 | £142,500 | 12 |
| WA1 3 | £221,000 | 65 |
Zoom out to the full WA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA1 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA1 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA1 4 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.