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Crank market report WA11 9, St. Helens
The standing WA11 9 (Crank) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,020 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA11 9 (St. Helens) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA11 9 (St. Helens) came in at £170,000, out of 50 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £180,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,100 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,020 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA11 9 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 9 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 9 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WA11 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £170,000, from 50 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £180,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WA11 9
By floor space, homes in WA11 9 have sold for about £2,100 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA11 9 sits 40% below the national market.
WA11 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £173,000 | £177,137 | 111 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 106 |
| 2023 | £163,500 | £179,647 | 120 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 143 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 155 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 123 |
| 2019 | £125,500 | £164,500 | 100 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 132 |
| 2017 | £124,500 | £169,806 | 124 |
| 2016 | £119,000 | £166,482 | 117 |
| 2015 | £115,800 | £163,625 | 104 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 101 |
| 2013 | £106,000 | £152,523 | 89 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 83 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 86 |
| 2010 | £121,500 | £190,543 | 48 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 58 |
| 2008 | £122,000 | £199,984 | 93 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 163 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 145 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 117 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 160 |
| 2003 | £75,500 | £139,089 | 182 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 191 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 192 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 179 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 153 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 148 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 129 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 167 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical WA11 9 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 60%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA11 9 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 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA11 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 50 sales completed in WA11 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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.
What homes rent for around WA11 9
The local authority for WA11 9 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £170,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market WA11 9 is
This is a thin market: 50 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. Against the WA11 district median, WA11 9 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WA11 9 (Crank)
Are property prices falling in WA11 9 (Crank)?
Is WA11 9 (Crank) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA11 9 (Crank)?
Where do WA11 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WA11 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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 another bedroom costs in WA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 7 | £202,500 | 27 |
| WA11 8 | £307,500 | 27 |
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 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA11 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA11 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA11 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA11 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA11 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA11 9. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA11 9 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.