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Lowton market report WA3 3, Warrington
The WA3 3 (Lowton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,272 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA3 3 (Warrington) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WA3 3 (Warrington) sold for £217,500 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 38% on five years earlier. The mean was £223,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,272 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA3 3 is one sector of WA3 (Warrington): 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 WA3 3 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 WA3 3
Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA3 3 home went for £217,500. The mean is £223,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in WA3 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA3 3 sales average about £2,320 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WA3 3 runs 24% below it.
The price of a typical WA3 3 home, 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 | £217,500 | £217,500 | 51 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 151 |
| 2024 | £198,200 | £210,727 | 162 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 161 |
| 2022 | £198,000 | £232,178 | 232 |
| 2021 | £157,800 | £199,795 | 194 |
| 2020 | £150,100 | £194,758 | 161 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 203 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 175 |
| 2017 | £116,000 | £158,212 | 133 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 146 |
| 2015 | £113,000 | £159,669 | 150 |
| 2014 | £102,500 | £145,414 | 112 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 121 |
| 2012 | £78,000 | £114,806 | 91 |
| 2011 | £93,500 | £141,149 | 76 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 77 |
| 2009 | £87,800 | £141,139 | 79 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 141 |
| 2007 | £114,000 | £193,376 | 289 |
| 2006 | £109,000 | £189,210 | 260 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 201 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 197 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 221 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 241 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 226 |
| 2000 | £46,200 | £90,668 | 206 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 223 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 139 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 175 |
| 1996 | £42,400 | £89,420 | 172 |
| 1995 | £38,200 | £83,041 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical WA3 3 home went from £38,200 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 6% 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 3 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−16.6%). 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) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.1% | +2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA3 3
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.
The register shows 51 WA3 3 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 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 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 WA3 3
WA3 3 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £538 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,137, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £217,500 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
How WA3 3 trades
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA3 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WA3, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about WA3 3 (Lowton)
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What happens to WA3 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WA3 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
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- Ridgeway, Lowton, Warrington, Warrington
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in WA
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 WA3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA3 1 | £245,000 | 26 |
| WA3 2 | £255,000 | 61 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA3 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA3 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA3 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WA3 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA3 3.
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See every individual WA3 3 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.
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.