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Runcorn market report WA7
The WA7 (Runcorn) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 25,097 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA7 (Runcorn) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA7 (Runcorn) came in at £180,000, out of 224 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £202,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 25,097 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district WA7 covering Runcorn sits in Runcorn. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WA7 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 a home in WA7 sells for
224 sales were registered in WA7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £180,000. The mean works out at £202,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WA7
The last five years of sales put WA7 at roughly £2,250 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA7 37% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WA7 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 224 |
| 2025 | £182,000 | £186,352 | 695 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 677 |
| 2023 | £162,200 | £178,218 | 616 |
| 2022 | £167,500 | £196,413 | 791 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 820 |
| 2020 | £157,500 | £204,360 | 664 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 748 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 860 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 871 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 748 |
| 2015 | £117,000 | £165,321 | 676 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 661 |
| 2013 | £111,000 | £159,718 | 605 |
| 2012 | £99,500 | £146,452 | 478 |
| 2011 | £104,500 | £157,755 | 434 |
| 2010 | £106,500 | £167,019 | 454 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 435 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 633 |
| 2007 | £113,000 | £191,679 | 1,186 |
| 2006 | £108,000 | £187,474 | 1,181 |
| 2005 | £104,000 | £185,078 | 1,067 |
| 2004 | £88,200 | £160,188 | 1,184 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 1,286 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 1,263 |
| 2001 | £55,500 | £106,696 | 1,069 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 1,196 |
| 1999 | £46,500 | £92,672 | 900 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 767 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 615 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 671 |
| 1995 | £42,800 | £93,041 | 622 |
In cash terms the typical WA7 home went from £42,800 in 1995 to £180,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA7 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 (+22.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £97,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WA7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £310,000 | 50 | 6,227 |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | 81 | 8,890 |
| Terraced | £143,500 | 83 | 8,549 |
| Flats | £97,500 | 10 | 1,431 |
What WA7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 510 WA7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 601 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.
What tenants pay around WA7
The local authority for WA7 is Halton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Halton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
What kind of market WA7 is
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. In its area's price order WA7 comes 14 of 16, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: WA7 (Runcorn)
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What happens to WA7 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
WA7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WA7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 95 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the WA7 median sold price.
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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WA7 ranks 4 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| WA7 6 | £158,500 | 46 |
How WA7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £447,500 | +3% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £375,000 | +4% |
| WA4 | £314,000 | +8% |
| WA6 | £302,500 | +15% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £254,000 | +14% |
| WA1 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WA12 | £215,000 | +19% |
| WA8 | £202,500 | +19% |
| WA2 | £195,500 | +26% |
| WA11 | £185,500 | +21% |
| WA7 (this report) | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Selling a home in WA7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WA7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA7.
Dig further
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See every individual WA7 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.