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Lowton market report WA3 1, Warrington
The WA3 1 (Lowton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,072 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA3 1 (Warrington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 26 registered 2026 sales put the WA3 1 (Warrington) median at £245,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £282,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,072 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WA3 1 is a single group of streets within WA3 (Warrington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA3 1 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 buyers actually paid in WA3 1
Take the 26 registered 2026 sales in WA3 1 and the middle price, the median, is £245,000. The mean lands at £282,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WA3 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA3 1 sales average about £2,720 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA3 1 14% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA3 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £244,000 | £249,835 | 69 |
| 2024 | £241,000 | £256,233 | 52 |
| 2023 | £219,000 | £240,628 | 41 |
| 2022 | £236,000 | £276,737 | 64 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 112 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 131 |
| 2019 | £197,000 | £258,220 | 159 |
| 2018 | £159,000 | £211,950 | 82 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 57 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 46 |
| 2015 | £143,000 | £202,059 | 41 |
| 2014 | £158,000 | £224,151 | 45 |
| 2013 | £132,000 | £189,935 | 36 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 49 |
| 2011 | £147,000 | £221,913 | 35 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 49 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 28 |
| 2008 | £153,500 | £251,619 | 47 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 67 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 67 |
| 2005 | £135,500 | £241,135 | 84 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 64 |
| 2003 | £89,200 | £164,328 | 78 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 93 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 76 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 85 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 79 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 74 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 56 |
| 1996 | £47,500 | £100,175 | 33 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical WA3 1 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 165%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA3 1 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 (+42.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−29.0%). 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) | +0.4% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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, 26 sales completed in WA3 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 77 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
How WA3 1 trades
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA3 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What tenants pay around WA3 1
For renting purposes WA3 1 sits in Wigan. The ONS average private rent there is £741 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £538 a month here against £1,137 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £245,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: WA3 1 (Lowton)
How much did a house sell for in WA3 1 (Lowton)?
Are property prices falling in WA3 1 (Lowton)?
Is WA3 1 (Lowton) a good place to buy a house?
Will WA3 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
WA3's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 280 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA3 district, not just WA3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Ridgeway, Lowton, Warrington, Warrington
"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 WA3 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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 WA3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA3 2 | £255,000 | 61 |
| WA3 3 | £217,500 | 51 |
| WA3 4 | £450,000 | 21 |
| WA3 5 | £292,500 | 26 |
| WA3 6 | £255,000 | 44 |
| WA3 7 | £294,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full WA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WA3 1? 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 WA3 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA3 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA3 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA3 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA3 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA3 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA3 1 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.