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Newton-le-Willows market report WA12 0, Newton-Le-Willows
The standing WA12 0 (Newton-le-Willows) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,903 HM Land Registry entries for WA12 0 (Newton-Le-Willows), 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: the 2026 median for WA12 0 (Newton-Le-Willows) is £207,500, from 16 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £258,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,440 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,903 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WA12 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA12 (Newton-Le-Willows). 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 WA12 0 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.
The going rate for a home in WA12 0
The 2026 median for WA12 0 is £207,500, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £258,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
WA12 0 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA12 0 sales average about £2,440 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA12 0 sits 27% below the national market.
WA12 0's median sold price, 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 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 16 |
| 2025 | £203,500 | £208,366 | 48 |
| 2024 | £213,000 | £226,463 | 42 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 40 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 63 |
| 2021 | £165,200 | £209,165 | 72 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 45 |
| 2019 | £137,000 | £179,574 | 60 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 63 |
| 2017 | £122,500 | £167,078 | 59 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 84 |
| 2015 | £138,500 | £195,701 | 64 |
| 2014 | £104,500 | £148,252 | 44 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 47 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 43 |
| 2011 | £80,000 | £120,769 | 59 |
| 2010 | £128,800 | £201,992 | 42 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 35 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 41 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 64 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 79 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 84 |
| 2004 | £123,500 | £224,300 | 127 |
| 2003 | £93,400 | £172,065 | 92 |
| 2002 | £71,500 | £134,527 | 83 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 73 |
| 2000 | £59,700 | £117,161 | 54 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 63 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 59 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 52 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 48 |
| 1995 | £66,700 | £144,996 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical WA12 0 home went from £66,700 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 3.1 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 43%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA12 0 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 2012 (+41.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−37.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA12 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 16 WA12 0 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 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market WA12 0 is
This is a thin market: 16 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.
The rental side of WA12 0
For renting purposes WA12 0 sits in St. Helens. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £207,500 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
What people ask about WA12 0 (Newton-le-Willows)
Is WA12 0 (Newton-le-Willows) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA12 0 (Newton-le-Willows)?
Are property prices falling in WA12 0 (Newton-le-Willows)?
Are WA12 0 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in WA12 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 80 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA12 district, not just WA12 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Pride Close, Newton-Le-Willows
- Lapwing Close, Newton-Le-Willows, Newton-Le-Willows
- The Copse, Newton-Le-Willows
"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 WA12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. 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 WA12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA12 8 | £225,000 | 53 |
| WA12 9 | £208,000 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full WA12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA12 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WA12 0: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA12 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA12 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA12 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA12 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA12 0.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA12 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA12 0 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.
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.