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Cronton market report WA8 0, Widnes
The WA8 0 (Cronton) 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: 1,643 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA8 0 (Widnes) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for WA8 0 (Widnes) is £140,000, from 29 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £127,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,780 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,643 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 WA8 0 is a single group of streets within WA8 (Widnes), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA8 0 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 WA8 0 sells for
In the WA8 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £140,000, from 29 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £127,100, sitting below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
WA8 0 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in WA8 0 have sold for about £1,780 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA8 0 sits 51% below the national market.
The price of a typical WA8 0 home, 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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £143,000 | £146,420 | 49 |
| 2024 | £125,000 | £132,901 | 31 |
| 2023 | £119,000 | £130,752 | 32 |
| 2022 | £119,000 | £139,541 | 59 |
| 2021 | £115,800 | £146,618 | 72 |
| 2020 | £114,800 | £148,955 | 75 |
| 2019 | £101,200 | £132,649 | 42 |
| 2018 | £83,000 | £110,641 | 55 |
| 2017 | £113,800 | £155,212 | 76 |
| 2016 | £81,000 | £113,320 | 45 |
| 2015 | £77,000 | £108,801 | 33 |
| 2014 | £73,200 | £103,847 | 44 |
| 2013 | £75,000 | £107,918 | 15 |
| 2012 | £77,500 | £114,070 | 23 |
| 2011 | £68,000 | £102,654 | 19 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 18 |
| 2009 | £72,500 | £116,544 | 22 |
| 2008 | £91,500 | £149,988 | 55 |
| 2007 | £91,400 | £155,040 | 114 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 124 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 102 |
| 2004 | £69,000 | £125,317 | 75 |
| 2003 | £46,500 | £85,664 | 75 |
| 2002 | £37,500 | £70,556 | 73 |
| 2001 | £28,600 | £54,982 | 56 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 42 |
| 1999 | £25,500 | £50,820 | 50 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 38 |
| 1997 | £29,000 | £59,473 | 28 |
| 1996 | £27,000 | £56,942 | 31 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 41 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 0 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 0 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 (+48.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−27.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.4% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 29 WA8 0 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 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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.
The rental side of WA8 0
For renting purposes WA8 0 sits in Halton. The ONS average private rent there is £738 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £140,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 6.3% 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.
How WA8 0 trades
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA8 0 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 WA8 district median, WA8 0 sits 30% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WA8 0 (Cronton): the questions that come up
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What happens to WA8 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in WA8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 164 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA8 district, not just WA8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
9% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WA8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in WA
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £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%) |
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WA8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA8 3 | £210,000 | 39 |
| WA8 4 | £167,500 | 34 |
| WA8 5 | £255,000 | 23 |
| WA8 6 | £170,000 | 44 |
| WA8 7 | £190,000 | 28 |
| WA8 8 | £180,000 | 54 |
| WA8 9 | £340,000 | 81 |
Zoom out to the full WA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA8 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA8 0's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA8 0. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA8 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.