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Lowton market report WA3 2, Warrington
The standing WA3 2 (Lowton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,802 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA3 2 (Warrington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WA3 2 (Warrington) sold for £255,000 in 2026, the median of 61 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £266,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,840 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,802 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WA3 2 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 2 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 WA3 2 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for WA3 2 is £255,000, taken from 61 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £266,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WA3 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA3 2 sales average about £2,840 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA3 2 trades 11% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA3 2 home, 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 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 211 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 176 |
| 2023 | £262,500 | £288,423 | 170 |
| 2022 | £266,000 | £311,915 | 280 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 240 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 248 |
| 2019 | £192,000 | £251,666 | 237 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 251 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 173 |
| 2016 | £147,000 | £205,654 | 130 |
| 2015 | £158,000 | £223,254 | 149 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 122 |
| 2013 | £132,000 | £189,935 | 94 |
| 2012 | £145,800 | £214,599 | 94 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 102 |
| 2010 | £168,800 | £264,722 | 106 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 89 |
| 2008 | £139,000 | £227,850 | 98 |
| 2007 | £156,500 | £265,468 | 228 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 168 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 140 |
| 2004 | £137,500 | £249,727 | 190 |
| 2003 | £103,500 | £190,672 | 212 |
| 2002 | £88,700 | £166,888 | 222 |
| 2001 | £72,500 | £139,378 | 193 |
| 2000 | £69,100 | £135,609 | 223 |
| 1999 | £69,700 | £138,908 | 234 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 300 |
| 1997 | £58,900 | £120,792 | 312 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 205 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical WA3 2 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 121%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA3 2 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 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−14.1%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in WA3 2. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 180 sales a year recently, against 197 a year before 2008. 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 tenants pay around WA3 2
WA3 2 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £255,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Common questions on WA3 2 (Lowton)
Are property prices falling in WA3 2 (Lowton)?
Is WA3 2 (Lowton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA3 2 (Lowton)?
What happens to WA3 2 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
What is for sale in WA3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 280 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA3 district, not just WA3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Laburnum Road, Lowton, Warrington, Gr...
- May Street, Golborne, Warrington, Gre...
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 WA3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA3 1 | £245,000 | 26 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WA3 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA3 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA3 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA3 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA3 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA3 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA3 2 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.