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Eccleston market report WA10 5, St. Helens
The standing WA10 5 (Eccleston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,480 HM Land Registry entries for WA10 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA10 5 (St. Helens) came in at £265,000, out of 33 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £289,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,480 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA10 5 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 5 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.
WA10 5 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for WA10 5 is £265,000, taken from 33 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £289,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WA10 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA10 5 costs about £2,790 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA10 5 7% below the country at large.
WA10 5'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 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 87 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 91 |
| 2023 | £238,000 | £261,504 | 71 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 85 |
| 2021 | £225,500 | £285,512 | 127 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 91 |
| 2019 | £231,400 | £303,310 | 96 |
| 2018 | £201,500 | £268,603 | 119 |
| 2017 | £180,300 | £245,911 | 142 |
| 2016 | £196,000 | £274,206 | 127 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 104 |
| 2014 | £172,500 | £244,721 | 84 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 59 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 39 |
| 2011 | £157,000 | £237,010 | 43 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 37 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 34 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 27 |
| 2007 | £187,500 | £318,052 | 83 |
| 2006 | £186,000 | £322,872 | 77 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 63 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 103 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 82 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 69 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 69 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 53 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 95 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 77 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 88 |
| 1996 | £74,800 | £157,750 | 86 |
| 1995 | £62,500 | £135,865 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical WA10 5 home went from £62,500 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 95%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA10 5 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 2002 (+38.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.4%). 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) | +1.9% | −0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 33 WA10 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 73 sales a year recently, against 75 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market WA10 5 is
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA10 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WA10, this sector trades 56% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around WA10 5
The local authority for WA10 5 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,275, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £265,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
Common questions on WA10 5 (Eccleston)
Are property prices falling in WA10 5 (Eccleston)?
Is WA10 5 (Eccleston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA10 5 (Eccleston)?
Are WA10 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 WA10 right now
The live side of the market holds 251 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA10 district, not just WA10 5: 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
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 WA10 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 WA10
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA10's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA10 1 | £105,000 | 14 |
| WA10 2 | £140,000 | 27 |
| WA10 3 | £166,500 | 48 |
| WA10 4 | £142,500 | 51 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WA10 5? 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 WA10 5'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.
Estate agents working WA10 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA10 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA10 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA10 5 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.