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Runcorn market report WA7 5
The WA7 5 (Runcorn) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,993 registered sales in WA7 5 (Runcorn) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WA7 5 (Runcorn) is £170,000, from 47 registered sales, up 31% on five years earlier; the mean is £172,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,993 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like WA7 5 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 5 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 5 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WA7 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £170,000, from 47 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £172,800, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
WA7 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WA7 5 homes have averaged around £1,930 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA7 5 40% below the country at large.
WA7 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 136 |
| 2024 | £159,000 | £169,050 | 136 |
| 2023 | £140,800 | £154,705 | 134 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 194 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 158 |
| 2020 | £115,500 | £149,864 | 106 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 137 |
| 2018 | £111,000 | £147,965 | 166 |
| 2017 | £102,800 | £140,209 | 154 |
| 2016 | £90,500 | £126,610 | 159 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 144 |
| 2014 | £87,000 | £123,425 | 132 |
| 2013 | £91,000 | £130,940 | 123 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 90 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 90 |
| 2010 | £87,500 | £137,223 | 89 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 67 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 120 |
| 2007 | £96,200 | £163,182 | 226 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 277 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 239 |
| 2004 | £78,000 | £141,663 | 233 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 245 |
| 2002 | £48,000 | £90,312 | 277 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 192 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 223 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 177 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 144 |
| 1997 | £34,800 | £71,368 | 114 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 142 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 5 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 3% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 5 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.8%). 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) | +13.3% | +10.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +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.
Transaction volumes
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.
WA7 5 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 239 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 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 shape of the WA7 5 market
This is a thin market: 47 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. 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 homes rent for around WA7 5
For renting purposes WA7 5 sits in Halton. The ONS average private rent there is £738 a month (May 2026). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Halton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
Common questions on WA7 5 (Runcorn)
Are property prices falling in WA7 5 (Runcorn)?
Is WA7 5 (Runcorn) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA7 5 (Runcorn)?
Will WA7 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% 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
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 5: 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
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 | £216,500 | 35 |
| WA7 2 | £172,000 | 36 |
| WA7 3 | £225,000 | 15 |
| WA7 4 | £199,000 | 45 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WA7 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA7 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA7 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA7 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA7 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA7 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA7 5 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.