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Latchford market report WA4 2, Warrington
The WA4 2 (Latchford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,230 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA4 2 (Warrington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA4 2 (Warrington) came in at £362,500, out of 100 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £384,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,230 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA4 2 is one sector of WA4 (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 WA4 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.
The going rate for a home in WA4 2
The WA4 2 median stands at £362,500 for 2026, built from 100 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £384,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WA4 2
The last five years of sales put WA4 2 at roughly £3,550 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA4 2 trades 27% above the country as a whole.
WA4 2's median sold price, 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 | £362,500 | £362,500 | 100 |
| 2025 | £349,000 | £357,346 | 231 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 186 |
| 2023 | £327,500 | £359,843 | 160 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 204 |
| 2021 | £297,500 | £376,673 | 258 |
| 2020 | £277,800 | £360,451 | 190 |
| 2019 | £257,500 | £337,521 | 196 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 216 |
| 2017 | £237,800 | £324,335 | 214 |
| 2016 | £234,000 | £327,368 | 241 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 272 |
| 2014 | £213,000 | £302,178 | 240 |
| 2013 | £196,500 | £282,744 | 208 |
| 2012 | £198,800 | £292,609 | 152 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 182 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 179 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 162 |
| 2008 | £187,000 | £306,532 | 143 |
| 2007 | £189,000 | £320,597 | 339 |
| 2006 | £181,000 | £314,193 | 327 |
| 2005 | £176,500 | £314,099 | 203 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 237 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 274 |
| 2002 | £124,000 | £233,305 | 311 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 260 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 221 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 264 |
| 1998 | £73,200 | £147,759 | 285 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 289 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 294 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 192 |
In cash terms the typical WA4 2 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £362,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 142%: 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 WA4 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 2000 (+22.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.4%). 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) | +3.9% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA4 2
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.
WA4 2 recorded 100 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 272 sales a year before the financial crisis and 176 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.
Reading the WA4 2 market
Against the WA4 district median, WA4 2 sits 15% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around WA4 2
WA4 2 falls under Warrington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £885 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £663 a month here against £1,436 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Warrington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £362,500 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.
WA4 2 (Latchford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WA4 2 (Latchford)?
Is WA4 2 (Latchford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA4 2 (Latchford)?
What happens to WA4 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in WA4 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 324 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA4 district, not just WA4 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Blackmoor Way, Appleton, Warrington, Warrington
- Taylor Street, WARRINGTON, Cheshire, WA4
- Secker Avenue, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4
"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 WA4 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
WA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WA4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA4 1 | £196,000 | 71 |
| WA4 3 | £324,000 | 36 |
| WA4 4 | £385,000 | 17 |
| WA4 5 | £542,500 | 46 |
| WA4 6 | £271,000 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full WA4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WA4 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA4 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA4 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA4 2 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 WA4 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA4 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA4 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA4 2 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.