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Latchford market report WA4, Warrington
The WA4 (Latchford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 28,150 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA4 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA4 (Warrington) came in at £314,000, out of 330 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £354,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 28,150 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA4 is the postcode district covering Warrington, Latchford, Stockton Heath in Warrington. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WA4 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.
WA4 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 330 registered 2026 sales in WA4 and the middle price, the median, is £314,000. The mean lands at £354,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WA4
By floor space, homes in WA4 have sold for about £3,280 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA4 trades 10% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA4 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 | £314,000 | £314,000 | 330 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 911 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 760 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 790 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 970 |
| 2021 | £290,200 | £367,431 | 1,100 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 819 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 833 |
| 2018 | £228,000 | £303,928 | 777 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 811 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 943 |
| 2015 | £204,800 | £289,382 | 967 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 983 |
| 2013 | £188,500 | £271,233 | 849 |
| 2012 | £182,800 | £269,059 | 626 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 619 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 642 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 548 |
| 2008 | £170,200 | £278,994 | 512 |
| 2007 | £176,000 | £298,545 | 1,296 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 1,177 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 936 |
| 2004 | £173,500 | £315,110 | 999 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 1,159 |
| 2002 | £120,100 | £225,967 | 1,113 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 1,015 |
| 2000 | £89,000 | £174,663 | 913 |
| 1999 | £77,800 | £155,051 | 991 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 987 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 1,123 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 980 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 671 |
In cash terms the typical WA4 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £314,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 119%, 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 16% 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 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−6.6%). 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, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £535,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 4.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WA4
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 | £535,000 | 80 | 7,658 |
| Semi-detached | £317,000 | 140 | 10,986 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 67 | 6,854 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 43 | 2,652 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WA4
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 692 WA4 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 1,076 sales a year before the financial crisis and 752 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.
The rental side of WA4
WA4 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 £314,000 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
The shape of the WA4 market
Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, WA4 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: WA4 (Latchford)
Are property prices falling in WA4 (Latchford)?
Is WA4 (Latchford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA4 (Latchford)?
What happens to WA4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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
Everything above is what homes in WA4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 324 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the WA4 median sold price.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Blackmoor Way, Appleton, Warrington, Warrington
- Taylor Street, WARRINGTON, Cheshire, WA4
- Secker Avenue, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4
"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 WA4 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WA4 ranks 14 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.
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.
Inside WA4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA4 1 | £196,000 | 71 |
| WA4 2 | £362,500 | 100 |
| WA4 3 | £324,000 | 36 |
| WA4 4 | £385,000 | 17 |
| WA4 5 | £542,500 | 46 |
| WA4 6 | £271,000 | 60 |
How WA4 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 (this report) | £314,000 | +8% |
| WA6 | £302,500 | +15% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £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% |
Selling in WA4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA4 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.
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.