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Runcorn market report WA7 1
The standing WA7 1 (Runcorn) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,458 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA7 1 (Runcorn) 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: 35 registered 2026 sales put the WA7 1 (Runcorn) median at £216,500, down 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £229,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,458 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WA7 1 is a single group of streets within WA7 (Runcorn), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA7 1 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.
WA7 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 35 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA7 1 home went for £216,500. The mean is £229,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
WA7 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WA7 1 at roughly £2,550 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 WA7 1 trades 24% below the country as a whole.
A typical WA7 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £216,500 | £216,500 | 35 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 143 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 124 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 134 |
| 2022 | £259,000 | £303,707 | 172 |
| 2021 | £224,400 | £284,119 | 212 |
| 2020 | £228,500 | £296,483 | 168 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 145 |
| 2018 | £210,800 | £281,000 | 158 |
| 2017 | £205,400 | £280,145 | 195 |
| 2016 | £210,400 | £294,352 | 154 |
| 2015 | £177,500 | £250,808 | 104 |
| 2014 | £117,500 | £166,694 | 77 |
| 2013 | £122,200 | £175,834 | 66 |
| 2012 | £83,500 | £122,902 | 59 |
| 2011 | £168,000 | £253,615 | 61 |
| 2010 | £134,500 | £210,931 | 109 |
| 2009 | £124,500 | £200,135 | 90 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 148 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 254 |
| 2006 | £119,200 | £206,916 | 222 |
| 2005 | £116,000 | £206,433 | 209 |
| 2004 | £105,800 | £192,153 | 224 |
| 2003 | £90,500 | £166,723 | 239 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 165 |
| 2001 | £98,800 | £189,938 | 120 |
| 2000 | £98,000 | £192,325 | 127 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 155 |
| 1998 | £86,500 | £174,606 | 131 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 112 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 57 |
| 1995 | £75,200 | £163,473 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 1 home went from £75,200 in 1995 to £216,500 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 32%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 1 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 2015 (+51.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−50.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.7% | −18.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in WA7 1
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 35 WA7 1 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 195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
How WA7 1 trades
This is a thin market: 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within WA7, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around WA7 1
WA7 1 falls under Halton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £738 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £539 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,149, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Halton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £216,500 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
What people ask about WA7 1 (Runcorn)
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What happens to WA7 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
WA7's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 95 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA7 district, not just WA7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 WA7 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.
What another bedroom costs in WA
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%) | — | — |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WA7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA7 2 | £172,000 | 36 |
| WA7 3 | £225,000 | 15 |
| WA7 4 | £199,000 | 45 |
| WA7 5 | £170,000 | 47 |
| WA7 6 | £158,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full WA7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WA7 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA7 1'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 WA7 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA7 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA7 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.