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Cronton market report WA8 3, Widnes
The standing WA8 3 (Cronton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,139 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA8 3 (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.
In short: the typical home in WA8 3 (Widnes) sold for £210,000 in 2026, the median of 35 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £244,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,600 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,139 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA8 3 is one sector of WA8 (Widnes): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WA8 3 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.
The going rate for a home in WA8 3
In the WA8 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £210,000, from 35 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £244,700, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
WA8 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA8 3 costs about £2,600 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA8 3 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA8 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 109 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 81 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 67 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 96 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 95 |
| 2020 | £157,500 | £204,360 | 79 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 96 |
| 2018 | £152,000 | £202,619 | 103 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 99 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 104 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 140 |
| 2014 | £158,200 | £224,434 | 152 |
| 2013 | £152,000 | £218,713 | 97 |
| 2012 | £114,500 | £168,530 | 58 |
| 2011 | £127,500 | £192,476 | 57 |
| 2010 | £148,100 | £232,259 | 48 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 44 |
| 2008 | £128,000 | £209,819 | 71 |
| 2007 | £126,000 | £213,731 | 114 |
| 2006 | £133,500 | £231,739 | 136 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 166 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 209 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 155 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 157 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 130 |
| 2000 | £54,400 | £106,760 | 87 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 88 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 52 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 67 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 76 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 3 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 2013 (+32.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA8 3
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 register shows 35 WA8 3 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 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
Rents around WA8 3
For renting purposes WA8 3 sits in Halton. The ONS average private rent there is £738 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £539 a month here against £1,149 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Halton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£738 a month is £8,856 a year, which against the £210,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
How WA8 3 trades
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
WA8 3 (Cronton): the questions that come up
Is WA8 3 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA8 3 (Cronton)?
Are property prices falling in WA8 3 (Cronton)?
Are WA8 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in WA8 today
Turning to what is actually available: 252 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA8 district, not just WA8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Doughton Green, Widnes, Widnes
- Burns Crescent, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8
- Sidings Court, Guest Street, Widnes, Widnes
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WA8 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WA8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA8 0 | £122,000 | 22 |
| WA8 4 | £167,500 | 28 |
| WA8 5 | £255,000 | 13 |
| WA8 6 | £173,000 | 35 |
| WA8 7 | £185,000 | 23 |
| WA8 8 | £180,000 | 46 |
| WA8 9 | £340,000 | 69 |
Zoom out to the full WA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WA8 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA8 3 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 WA8 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA8 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA8 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA8 3 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.
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.