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Crank market report WA11 8, St. Helens
The WA11 8 (Crank) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,744 HM Land Registry entries for WA11 8 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA11 8 (St. Helens) came in at £307,500, out of 27 registered, up 50% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £312,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,890 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,744 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA11 8 is one sector of WA11 (St. Helens): 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 WA11 8 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 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in WA11 8 and the middle price, the median, is £307,500. The mean lands at £312,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WA11 8
Per square metre, WA11 8 homes have averaged around £2,890 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 8 runs 8% above it.
The price of a typical WA11 8 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £307,500 | £307,500 | 27 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 91 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 98 |
| 2023 | £271,500 | £298,312 | 100 |
| 2022 | £267,500 | £313,674 | 107 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 103 |
| 2020 | £201,500 | £261,450 | 80 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 82 |
| 2018 | £196,500 | £261,938 | 79 |
| 2017 | £184,500 | £251,639 | 114 |
| 2016 | £165,500 | £231,536 | 81 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 103 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 92 |
| 2013 | £158,500 | £228,066 | 78 |
| 2012 | £157,200 | £231,379 | 51 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 60 |
| 2010 | £172,500 | £270,524 | 55 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 47 |
| 2008 | £162,500 | £266,372 | 51 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 110 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 85 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 73 |
| 2004 | £154,500 | £280,602 | 112 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 99 |
| 2002 | £107,700 | £202,637 | 104 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 102 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 102 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 118 |
| 1998 | £59,200 | £119,499 | 80 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 102 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 91 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical WA11 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £307,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WA11 8 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 2022 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−7.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.3% | +15.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.4% | +3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.4% | +2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 8
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 27 WA11 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 85 sales a year recently, against 98 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of WA11 8
WA11 8 falls under St. Helens, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £307,500 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 3.1% 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.
How WA11 8 trades
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA11 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the WA11 district median, WA11 8 sits 66% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
WA11 8 (Crank): the questions that come up
Is WA11 8 (Crank) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA11 8 (Crank)?
Are property prices falling in WA11 8 (Crank)?
Where do WA11 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 50% over five years in cash and up 18% 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 is for sale in WA11 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 161 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA11 district, not just WA11 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Kenyons Lane North, Haydock, WA11, Haydock
- Avery Road, Haydock, St Helens, WA11, St Helens
- Bowness Avenue, St Helens
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, 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.
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 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 7 | £202,500 | 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.
Before you sell in WA11 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA11 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA11 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA11 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA11 8.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA11 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA11 8 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.
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.