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Runcorn market report WA7 4

The standing WA7 4 (Runcorn) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,636 HM Land Registry entries for WA7 4 (Runcorn), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: 45 registered 2026 sales put the WA7 4 (Runcorn) median at £199,000, up 34% on five years earlier, with a mean of £221,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,636 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

A postcode sector like WA7 4 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.

WA7 4 sold prices: where the market stands

Take the 45 registered 2026 sales in WA7 4 and the middle price, the median, is £199,000. The mean lands at £221,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

What a square metre costs in WA7 4

Per square metre, WA7 4 homes have averaged around £2,190 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WA7 4 runs 30% below it.

In cash terms the typical WA7 4 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £199,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 103%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+53.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What WA7 4 has returned, per year

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 4

Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in WA7 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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 4 market

Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA7 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the WA7 district median, WA7 4 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

The rental side of WA7 4

WA7 4 falls under Halton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £738 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £539 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,149 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£738 a month is £8,856 a year, which against the £199,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

WA7 4 (Runcorn): the questions that come up

Where do WA7 4 prices go next?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

What you could buy in WA7 now

Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

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:

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 4? Price it on the evidence

Take it further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA7 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

See every individual WA7 4 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.

How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.