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Town Centre market report WA1, Warrington
The WA1 (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: 11,888 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA1 (Warrington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 152 registered 2026 sales put the WA1 (Warrington) median at £245,500, up 26% on five years earlier, with a mean of £247,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,770 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,888 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA1 is the postcode district covering Warrington, Town Centre, Woolston in Warrington. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WA1 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.
WA1 sold prices: where the market stands
152 sales were registered in WA1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,500. The mean works out at £247,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WA1
Per square metre, WA1 homes have averaged around £2,770 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA1 14% below the national figure.
A typical WA1 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 | £245,500 | £245,500 | 152 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 353 |
| 2024 | £222,500 | £236,563 | 312 |
| 2023 | £243,000 | £266,998 | 300 |
| 2022 | £220,500 | £258,561 | 405 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 386 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 296 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 291 |
| 2018 | £158,000 | £210,617 | 329 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 337 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 409 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 415 |
| 2014 | £134,500 | £190,812 | 399 |
| 2013 | £124,000 | £178,424 | 308 |
| 2012 | £119,500 | £175,889 | 216 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 182 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 213 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 185 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 255 |
| 2007 | £129,500 | £219,668 | 511 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 555 |
| 2005 | £126,000 | £224,229 | 571 |
| 2004 | £119,700 | £217,399 | 470 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 586 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 543 |
| 2001 | £63,800 | £122,652 | 464 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 451 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 417 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 439 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 475 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 391 |
| 1995 | £41,800 | £90,867 | 272 |
In cash terms the typical WA1 home went from £41,800 in 1995 to £245,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 170%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA1 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 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−8.4%). 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, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £340,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WA1
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 | £340,000 | 24 | 1,812 |
| Semi-detached | £258,900 | 77 | 5,382 |
| Terraced | £185,800 | 38 | 3,658 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 13 | 1,027 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +6.8% | +2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 279 WA1 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 519 sales a year before the financial crisis and 304 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 WA1
The local authority for WA1 is Warrington, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £245,500 median sold price, £885 a month is £10,620 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Reading the WA1 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.
Asked and answered: WA1 (Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in WA1 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in WA1 (Town Centre)?
Is WA1 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WA1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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 WA1 today
Everything above is what homes in WA1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 116 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the WA1 median sold price.
WA1 registered 279 sales in the last twelve months; the 116 homes listed now would take about 5 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Dutton Court, Warrington, Warrington
- Apartment 4, Pyramid Court Winmarleigh Street, Warrington, Warrington
- Hanover Street, Warrington, WA1, 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 is for sale against what sells in WA1
The mix on the market in WA1 matches the mix that changes hands, within 4 points for every type.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 13% | 17% |
| Semi-detached | 49% | 46% |
| Terraced | 27% | 29% |
| Flats | 10% | 8% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
When homes in WA1 change hands
Across the 1,756 sales completed in WA1 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (12.0% of the total) and January the quietest (5.7%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 100 | 5.7% |
| February | 144 | 8.2% |
| March | 210 | 12.0% |
| April | 122 | 6.9% |
| May | 119 | 6.8% |
| June | 168 | 9.6% |
| July | 151 | 8.6% |
| August | 167 | 9.5% |
| September | 181 | 10.3% |
| October | 127 | 7.2% |
| November | 132 | 7.5% |
| December | 135 | 7.7% |
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight 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 | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WA1 ranks 2 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How WA1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £456,000 | +5% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £390,000 | +8% |
| WA4 | £315,000 | +9% |
| WA6 | £300,000 | +14% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £250,000 | +13% |
| WA1 (this report) | £245,500 | +26% |
| WA12 | £220,000 | +22% |
| WA2 | £200,000 | +29% |
| WA8 | £200,000 | +18% |
| WA11 | £189,000 | +23% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Thinking of selling in WA1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA1 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.
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.