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Runcorn market report WA7 6
The standing WA7 6 (Runcorn) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,198 HM Land Registry entries for WA7 6 (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: a typical WA7 6 (Runcorn) home changed hands for £158,500 in 2026 (median of 46 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £197,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,198 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WA7 6 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 6 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.
Today's WA7 6 prices, from the sold record
46 sales were registered in WA7 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £158,500. The mean works out at £197,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in WA7 6
Per square metre, WA7 6 homes have averaged around £2,250 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA7 6 44% below the national figure.
A typical WA7 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £158,500 | £158,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 113 |
| 2024 | £156,500 | £166,392 | 111 |
| 2023 | £147,500 | £162,066 | 112 |
| 2022 | £165,500 | £194,068 | 130 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 139 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 119 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 136 |
| 2018 | £120,500 | £160,629 | 132 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 139 |
| 2016 | £111,200 | £155,570 | 122 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 111 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 138 |
| 2013 | £109,000 | £156,840 | 120 |
| 2012 | £114,000 | £167,794 | 107 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 97 |
| 2010 | £103,000 | £161,531 | 75 |
| 2009 | £116,000 | £186,471 | 69 |
| 2008 | £111,000 | £181,952 | 119 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 253 |
| 2006 | £101,000 | £175,323 | 239 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 208 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 250 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 303 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 298 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 270 |
| 2000 | £50,500 | £99,106 | 260 |
| 1999 | £47,500 | £94,665 | 230 |
| 1998 | £51,500 | £103,956 | 197 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 165 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 206 |
| 1995 | £41,400 | £89,997 | 184 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 6 home went from £41,400 in 1995 to £158,500 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 76%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 6 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 2022 (+22.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−14.3%). 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) | −14.3% | −16.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in WA7 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 260 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
The shape of the WA7 6 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA7 6 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. Within WA7, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of WA7 6
WA7 6 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 £158,500 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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 6 (Runcorn): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WA7 6 (Runcorn)?
Is WA7 6 (Runcorn) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA7 6 (Runcorn)?
Where do WA7 6 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WA7's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 95 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA7 district, not just WA7 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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.
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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £172,000 | 36 |
| WA7 3 | £225,000 | 15 |
| WA7 4 | £199,000 | 45 |
| WA7 5 | £170,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full WA7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA7 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA7 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA7 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA7 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA7 6.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA7 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA7 6 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.
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.