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Eccleston market report WA10 3, St. Helens
The WA10 3 (Eccleston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,288 HM Land Registry entries for WA10 3 (St. Helens), 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: 48 registered 2026 sales put the WA10 3 (St. Helens) median at £166,500, up 31% on five years earlier, with a mean of £193,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,288 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA10 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA10 (St. Helens). 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 WA10 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 WA10 3
48 sales were registered in WA10 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £166,500. The mean works out at £193,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WA10 3
A square metre of WA10 3 home has cost about £2,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA10 3 trades 42% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA10 3 home, 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 | £166,500 | £166,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 127 |
| 2024 | £156,000 | £165,860 | 99 |
| 2023 | £139,500 | £153,276 | 92 |
| 2022 | £131,200 | £153,847 | 132 |
| 2021 | £127,200 | £161,052 | 152 |
| 2020 | £105,000 | £136,240 | 101 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 107 |
| 2018 | £104,200 | £138,901 | 142 |
| 2017 | £88,000 | £120,023 | 117 |
| 2016 | £100,100 | £140,041 | 124 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 84 |
| 2014 | £91,800 | £130,234 | 92 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 79 |
| 2012 | £92,500 | £136,148 | 50 |
| 2011 | £92,000 | £138,885 | 62 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 65 |
| 2009 | £99,200 | £159,465 | 54 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 83 |
| 2007 | £122,500 | £207,794 | 264 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 271 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 168 |
| 2004 | £86,800 | £157,646 | 198 |
| 2003 | £67,200 | £123,799 | 234 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 200 |
| 2001 | £48,000 | £92,278 | 177 |
| 2000 | £51,700 | £101,461 | 198 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 237 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 154 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 145 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 127 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical WA10 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £166,500 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 70%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA10 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−12.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.8% | +12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 48 WA10 3 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 214 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around WA10 3
For renting purposes WA10 3 sits in St. Helens. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £581 a month here against £1,275 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £166,500 median sold price, £790 a month is £9,480 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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 WA10 3 market
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Common questions on WA10 3 (Eccleston)
Is WA10 3 (Eccleston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA10 3 (Eccleston)?
Are property prices falling in WA10 3 (Eccleston)?
Are WA10 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WA10's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 251 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA10 district, not just WA10 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Laurel Road, St. Helens
- Bleak Hill Road, Windle, St. Helens, St. Helens
- Daresbury Road, Eccleston, St. Helens
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WA10 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.
What another bedroom costs in WA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
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.
Other sectors in WA10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA10 1 | £105,000 | 14 |
| WA10 2 | £140,000 | 27 |
| WA10 4 | £142,500 | 51 |
| WA10 5 | £265,000 | 33 |
| WA10 6 | £182,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full WA10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA10 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WA10 3: 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 WA10 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA10 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA10 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA10 3 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.