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Newton-le-Willows market report WA12, Newton-Le-Willows
The standing WA12 (Newton-le-Willows) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 12,477 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA12 (Newton-Le-Willows) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA12 (Newton-Le-Willows) came in at £215,000, out of 133 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £232,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,470 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,477 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district WA12 covering Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown sits in Newton-Le-Willows. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WA12 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.
What WA12 homes really sell for
133 sales were registered in WA12 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £215,000. The mean works out at £232,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WA12
Per square metre, WA12 homes have averaged around £2,470 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA12 25% below the national figure.
WA12's median sold price, 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 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 133 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 337 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 304 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 307 |
| 2022 | £192,000 | £225,142 | 429 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 530 |
| 2020 | £167,000 | £216,686 | 404 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 507 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 457 |
| 2017 | £143,000 | £195,038 | 489 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 444 |
| 2015 | £139,700 | £197,396 | 452 |
| 2014 | £138,200 | £196,061 | 406 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 305 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 249 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 219 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 230 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 190 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 269 |
| 2007 | £124,500 | £211,187 | 453 |
| 2006 | £117,200 | £203,444 | 472 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 415 |
| 2004 | £102,000 | £185,252 | 547 |
| 2003 | £81,000 | £149,222 | 579 |
| 2002 | £67,200 | £126,436 | 524 |
| 2001 | £63,500 | £122,076 | 573 |
| 2000 | £55,200 | £108,330 | 472 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 429 |
| 1998 | £45,900 | £92,652 | 410 |
| 1997 | £44,100 | £90,440 | 298 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 357 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 287 |
In cash terms the typical WA12 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA12 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 2004 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.5%). 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) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £355,000 against £105,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, WA12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £355,000 | 27 | 2,999 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 53 | 4,549 |
| Terraced | £170,800 | 44 | 4,328 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 9 | 597 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WA12 recorded 268 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 504 sales a year before the financial crisis and 302 a year over the last five. 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.
What tenants pay around WA12
The local authority for WA12 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.
Against the £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
WA12 (Newton-le-Willows): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WA12 (Newton-le-Willows)?
Are property prices falling in WA12 (Newton-le-Willows)?
Is WA12 (Newton-le-Willows) a good place to buy a house?
Are WA12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WA12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WA12 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 80 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the WA12 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Pride Close, Newton-Le-Willows
- Lapwing Close, Newton-Le-Willows, Newton-Le-Willows
- The Copse, Newton-Le-Willows
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 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
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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
WA12 ranks 5 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA12 0 | £207,500 | 16 |
| WA12 8 | £225,000 | 53 |
| WA12 9 | £208,000 | 64 |
How WA12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £447,500 | +3% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £375,000 | +4% |
| WA4 | £314,000 | +8% |
| WA6 | £302,500 | +15% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £254,000 | +14% |
| WA1 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WA12 (this report) | £215,000 | +19% |
| WA8 | £202,500 | +19% |
| WA2 | £195,500 | +26% |
| WA11 | £185,500 | +21% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Selling in WA12? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA12'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA12.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA12. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA12 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.