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Burtonwood market report WA5, Warrington
The standing WA5 (Burtonwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 32,374 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA5 (Warrington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WA5 (Warrington) home changed hands for £260,000 in 2026 (median of 339 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £275,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 32,374 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district WA5 covering Warrington, Burtonwood, Westbrook sits in Warrington. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WA5 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 WA5
The 2026 median for WA5 is £260,000, taken from 339 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £275,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WA5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA5 sales average about £2,880 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA5 9% below the national figure.
A typical WA5 home, priced year by year (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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 339 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 883 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 789 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 820 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 1,044 |
| 2021 | £232,000 | £293,742 | 1,294 |
| 2020 | £197,800 | £256,650 | 970 |
| 2019 | £191,500 | £251,011 | 1,052 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 1,013 |
| 2017 | £168,000 | £229,135 | 975 |
| 2016 | £160,400 | £224,401 | 985 |
| 2015 | £153,000 | £216,189 | 935 |
| 2014 | £144,200 | £204,573 | 894 |
| 2013 | £138,000 | £198,568 | 846 |
| 2012 | £133,000 | £195,759 | 657 |
| 2011 | £136,000 | £205,308 | 637 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 651 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 640 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 827 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 1,422 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 1,612 |
| 2005 | £134,000 | £238,466 | 1,014 |
| 2004 | £131,000 | £237,922 | 1,343 |
| 2003 | £103,000 | £189,751 | 1,423 |
| 2002 | £84,000 | £158,045 | 1,255 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 1,187 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 1,220 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 1,105 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 1,244 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 1,200 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 1,109 |
| 1995 | £53,500 | £116,301 | 989 |
In cash terms the typical WA5 home went from £53,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA5 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 2004 (+27.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−6.9%). 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, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £394,000 against £139,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WA5
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 | £394,000 | 103 | 10,767 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 123 | 12,352 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 82 | 7,241 |
| Flats | £139,000 | 31 | 2,014 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.0% | +1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 WA5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 712 sales completed in WA5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,310 sales a year before the financial crisis and 775 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.
The rental side of WA5
For renting purposes WA5 sits in Warrington. The ONS average private rent there is £885 a month (May 2026). 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 £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £885 a month (£10,620 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Asked and answered: WA5 (Burtonwood)
Are property prices falling in WA5 (Burtonwood)?
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What happens to WA5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in WA5 right now
Everything above is what homes in WA5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 306 homes on the market right now, from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the WA5 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Tourney Green, Westbrook, Warrington,...
- Partisan Green, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5, Warrington
- Cartwright Street, Warrington, Cheshi...
"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 WA5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WA5 ranks 13 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.
WA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WA5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WA5 0 | £202,500 | 18 |
| WA5 1 | £220,000 | 71 |
| WA5 2 | £257,500 | 45 |
| WA5 3 | £301,500 | 112 |
| WA5 4 | £165,000 | 19 |
| WA5 7 | £318,200 | 12 |
| WA5 8 | £341,000 | 45 |
| WA5 9 | £226,000 | 17 |
How WA5 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 (this report) | £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 a home in WA5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA5 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 WA5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA5 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.