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Runcorn market report WA7 2
The WA7 2 (Runcorn) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,908 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA7 2 (Runcorn) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WA7 2 (Runcorn) home changed hands for £172,000 in 2026 (median of 36 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier), with the mean at £188,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,908 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA7 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA7 (Runcorn). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WA7 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.
What buyers actually paid in WA7 2
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA7 2 home went for £172,000. The mean is £188,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WA7 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA7 2 sales average about £2,170 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA7 2 40% below the country at large.
WA7 2's median sold price, 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 | £172,000 | £172,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 123 |
| 2024 | £145,500 | £154,696 | 139 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 86 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 121 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 117 |
| 2020 | £121,000 | £157,000 | 92 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 137 |
| 2018 | £80,000 | £106,642 | 188 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 180 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 146 |
| 2015 | £117,800 | £166,451 | 152 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 133 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 94 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 88 |
| 2011 | £96,000 | £144,923 | 69 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 64 |
| 2009 | £96,000 | £154,321 | 54 |
| 2008 | £89,000 | £145,890 | 85 |
| 2007 | £102,200 | £173,360 | 168 |
| 2006 | £91,500 | £158,832 | 165 |
| 2005 | £87,000 | £154,825 | 159 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 162 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 179 |
| 2002 | £42,100 | £79,211 | 156 |
| 2001 | £41,500 | £79,782 | 159 |
| 2000 | £37,100 | £72,809 | 146 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 135 |
| 1998 | £42,800 | £86,395 | 98 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 92 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 100 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 2 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £172,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 93%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 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 2019 (+72.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−23.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA7 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.2% | +1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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 WA7 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.
WA7 2 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 162 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
The rental side of WA7 2
For renting purposes WA7 2 sits in Halton. The ONS average private rent there is £738 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £172,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
The shape of the WA7 2 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA7 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What people ask about WA7 2 (Runcorn)
Is WA7 2 (Runcorn) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA7 2 (Runcorn)?
Are property prices falling in WA7 2 (Runcorn)?
Where do WA7 2 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 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.
WA7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 95 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA7 district, not just WA7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% 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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"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 WA7 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%) | — | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in WA7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA7 1 | £216,500 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WA7 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA7 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA7 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA7 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA7 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA7 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA7 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.