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Crank market report WA11 7, St. Helens
The standing WA11 7 (Crank) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,306 HM Land Registry entries for WA11 7 (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: 27 registered 2026 sales put the WA11 7 (St. Helens) median at £202,500, up 27% on five years earlier, with a mean of £269,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,260 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,306 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WA11 7 is a single group of streets within WA11 (St. Helens), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA11 7 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.
WA11 7 sold prices: where the market stands
The WA11 7 median stands at £202,500 for 2026, built from 27 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £269,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in WA11 7
Per square metre, WA11 7 homes have averaged around £2,260 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WA11 7 runs 29% below it.
A typical WA11 7 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 | £202,500 | £202,500 | 27 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 61 |
| 2024 | £187,000 | £198,819 | 83 |
| 2023 | £183,800 | £201,951 | 58 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 78 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 93 |
| 2020 | £138,000 | £179,058 | 78 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 79 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 83 |
| 2017 | £134,800 | £183,854 | 72 |
| 2016 | £131,000 | £183,270 | 71 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 76 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 73 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 61 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 41 |
| 2011 | £112,500 | £169,832 | 55 |
| 2010 | £123,800 | £194,150 | 37 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 34 |
| 2008 | £123,000 | £201,623 | 47 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 103 |
| 2006 | £120,200 | £208,652 | 88 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 92 |
| 2004 | £101,500 | £184,344 | 107 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 97 |
| 2002 | £67,000 | £126,060 | 73 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 98 |
| 2000 | £48,000 | £94,200 | 77 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 91 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 58 |
| 1997 | £49,800 | £102,130 | 89 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 63 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical WA11 7 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £202,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA11 7 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 2013 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−20.0%). 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) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA11 7
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.
The register shows 27 WA11 7 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 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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.
Rents around WA11 7
The local authority for WA11 7 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £581 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,275 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £202,500 median sold price, £790 a month is £9,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
What kind of market WA11 7 is
This is a thin market: 27 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. 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. Within WA11, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
WA11 7 (Crank): the questions that come up
Is WA11 7 (Crank) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA11 7 (Crank)?
Are property prices falling in WA11 7 (Crank)?
Will WA11 7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in WA11 now
The live side of the market holds 161 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA11 district, not just WA11 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Kenyons Lane North, Haydock, WA11, Haydock
- Avery Road, Haydock, St Helens, WA11, St Helens
- Bowness Avenue, 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 WA11 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.
What another bedroom costs in WA
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%) | — | — |
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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA11
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA11, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA11 0 | £172,200 | 82 |
| WA11 8 | £307,500 | 27 |
| WA11 9 | £170,000 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full WA11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA11 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WA11 7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA11 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA11 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA11 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA11 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA11 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA11 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA11 7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.