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Runcorn market report WA7 3
The WA7 3 (Runcorn) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,912 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA7 3 (Runcorn) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in WA7 3 (Runcorn) sold for £225,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £243,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,912 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA7 3 is one sector of WA7 (Runcorn): 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 WA7 3 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 WA7 3
In the WA7 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £225,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £243,300, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WA7 3
By floor space, homes in WA7 3 have sold for about £2,700 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 WA7 3 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA7 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £242,200 | £247,992 | 48 |
| 2024 | £212,500 | £225,931 | 44 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 39 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 53 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 67 |
| 2020 | £189,000 | £245,231 | 46 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 62 |
| 2018 | £204,800 | £273,002 | 81 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 72 |
| 2016 | £148,000 | £207,053 | 45 |
| 2015 | £132,500 | £187,223 | 54 |
| 2014 | £135,400 | £192,089 | 44 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 62 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 32 |
| 2011 | £131,200 | £198,062 | 28 |
| 2010 | £136,000 | £213,283 | 23 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 35 |
| 2008 | £134,000 | £219,654 | 39 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 90 |
| 2006 | £135,500 | £235,211 | 66 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 71 |
| 2004 | £129,500 | £235,197 | 90 |
| 2003 | £94,000 | £173,171 | 99 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 95 |
| 2001 | £71,000 | £136,494 | 85 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 150 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 61 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 63 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 44 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 54 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 3 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 (+61.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−17.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA7 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −7.1% | −9.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.9% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 3
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in WA7 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
Reading the WA7 3 market
This is a thin market: 23 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WA7, this sector trades 25% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of WA7 3
The local authority for WA7 3 is Halton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £225,000 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
WA7 3 (Runcorn): the questions that come up
Is WA7 3 (Runcorn) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA7 3 (Runcorn)?
Are property prices falling in WA7 3 (Runcorn)?
Will WA7 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in WA7 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 50 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA7 district, not just WA7 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
12% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Holt Lane, Halton, Runcorn, WA7, Runcorn
- The Hove, Murdishaw, Runcorn, Runcorn
- Dorchester Park, Runcorn, Runcorn
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £225,000 | £260,000 (+16%) | £325,000 (+25%) | £436,995 (+34%) | £680,000 (+56%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £192,000 (+13%) | £232,500 (+21%) | £290,000 (+25%) | £410,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £129,975 | £140,000 (+8%) | £160,000 (+14%) | £249,475 (+56%) | £435,000 (+74%) |
| Flat | £105,000 | £140,000 (+33%) | £220,000 (+57%) | £315,000 (+43%) | £585,000 (+86%) |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £185,000 | 40 |
| WA7 2 | £174,000 | 47 |
| WA7 4 | £199,500 | 56 |
| WA7 5 | £160,000 | 59 |
| WA7 6 | £166,200 | 60 |
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 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA7 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA7 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA7 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA7 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA7 3 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.
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.