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Lowton market report WA3 5, Warrington
The standing WA3 5 (Lowton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,433 HM Land Registry entries for WA3 5 (Warrington), 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: 26 registered 2026 sales put the WA3 5 (Warrington) median at £292,500, up 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £323,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,060 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,433 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA3 5 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 5 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 5
The WA3 5 median stands at £292,500 for 2026, built from 26 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £323,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WA3 5
The last five years of sales put WA3 5 at roughly £3,060 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WA3 5 runs 3% above it.
WA3 5's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £292,500 | £292,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £278,000 | £284,648 | 81 |
| 2024 | £293,800 | £312,370 | 70 |
| 2023 | £262,000 | £287,874 | 52 |
| 2022 | £257,000 | £301,362 | 82 |
| 2021 | £236,000 | £298,806 | 105 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 54 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 99 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 78 |
| 2017 | £191,000 | £260,505 | 95 |
| 2016 | £177,500 | £248,324 | 88 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 75 |
| 2014 | £159,000 | £225,569 | 81 |
| 2013 | £151,000 | £217,274 | 60 |
| 2012 | £133,100 | £195,907 | 49 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 58 |
| 2010 | £143,000 | £224,261 | 42 |
| 2009 | £151,200 | £243,055 | 45 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 40 |
| 2007 | £166,000 | £281,582 | 94 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 104 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 49 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 91 |
| 2003 | £118,000 | £217,385 | 92 |
| 2002 | £97,200 | £182,881 | 96 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 117 |
| 2000 | £78,500 | £154,056 | 88 |
| 1999 | £62,200 | £123,961 | 86 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 83 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 105 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 90 |
| 1995 | £51,700 | £112,388 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical WA3 5 home went from £51,700 in 1995 to £292,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA3 5 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 2000 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA3 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 26 WA3 5 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 91 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 homes rent for around WA3 5
WA3 5 falls under Warrington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £885 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £663 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,436, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Warrington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £292,500 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
How WA3 5 trades
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA3 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WA3 district median, WA3 5 sits 15% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
WA3 5 (Lowton): the questions that come up
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Are WA3 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 3 | £217,500 | 51 |
| WA3 4 | £450,000 | 21 |
| 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 in WA3 5? 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 WA3 5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA3 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA3 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA3 5 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.