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Lowton market report WA3, Warrington
The standing WA3 (Lowton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 24,725 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA3 (Warrington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WA3 (Warrington) sold for £254,000 in 2026, the median of 249 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £287,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,860 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 24,725 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA3 is a postcode district covering Lowton, Golborne, Birchwood in Warrington. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WA3 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
Across 249 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA3 home went for £254,000. The mean is £287,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WA3 prices by floor area
A square metre of WA3 home has cost about £2,860 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA3 11% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WA3 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £254,000 | £254,000 | 249 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 775 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 685 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 615 |
| 2022 | £246,800 | £289,401 | 884 |
| 2021 | £222,000 | £281,081 | 981 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 867 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 931 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 806 |
| 2017 | £167,200 | £228,044 | 736 |
| 2016 | £155,100 | £216,986 | 664 |
| 2015 | £152,800 | £215,906 | 720 |
| 2014 | £142,200 | £201,736 | 638 |
| 2013 | £132,200 | £190,223 | 516 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 461 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 439 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 437 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 421 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 503 |
| 2007 | £143,700 | £243,755 | 1,044 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 990 |
| 2005 | £127,000 | £226,009 | 731 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 938 |
| 2003 | £97,000 | £178,698 | 967 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 1,066 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 990 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 991 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 983 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 979 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 1,068 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 898 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 752 |
In cash terms the typical WA3 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £254,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 120%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA3 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 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £369,000 against £119,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WA3
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 | £369,000 | 82 | 8,235 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 108 | 10,314 |
| Terraced | £178,000 | 45 | 5,023 |
| Flats | £119,500 | 14 | 1,153 |
What WA3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 576 WA3 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 965 sales a year before the financial crisis and 642 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around WA3
WA3 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.
Set against the £254,000 median sold price, £885 a month is £10,620 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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 (Lowton)
How much did a house sell for in WA3 (Lowton)?
Are property prices falling in WA3 (Lowton)?
Is WA3 (Lowton) a good place to buy a house?
Are WA3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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
Everything above is what homes in WA3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 280 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the WA3 median sold price.
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.
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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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WA3 ranks 11 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WA3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 5 | £292,500 | 26 |
| WA3 6 | £255,000 | 44 |
| WA3 7 | £294,000 | 20 |
How WA3 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 (this report) | £254,000 | +14% |
| WA1 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WA12 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in WA3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA3'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 WA3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA3 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.