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Cronton market report WA8 4, Widnes
The WA8 4 (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: 2,279 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA8 4 (Widnes) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA8 4 (Widnes) came in at £167,500, out of 28 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £201,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,279 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA8 4 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 4 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.
WA8 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The WA8 4 median stands at £167,500 for 2026, built from 28 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £201,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WA8 4
Per square metre, WA8 4 homes have averaged around £2,480 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 WA8 4 41% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA8 4 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 | £167,500 | £167,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £160,500 | £164,338 | 64 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 66 |
| 2023 | £182,500 | £200,523 | 36 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 65 |
| 2021 | £147,500 | £186,754 | 78 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 52 |
| 2019 | £124,500 | £163,190 | 56 |
| 2018 | £139,200 | £185,556 | 68 |
| 2017 | £128,500 | £175,261 | 74 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 67 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 68 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 52 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 49 |
| 2012 | £107,000 | £157,491 | 37 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 37 |
| 2010 | £101,500 | £159,178 | 32 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 31 |
| 2008 | £114,000 | £186,870 | 47 |
| 2007 | £116,000 | £196,768 | 99 |
| 2006 | £121,200 | £210,388 | 110 |
| 2005 | £98,000 | £174,401 | 89 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 99 |
| 2003 | £83,000 | £152,906 | 128 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 124 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 105 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 106 |
| 1999 | £53,500 | £106,623 | 84 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 79 |
| 1997 | £44,300 | £90,850 | 60 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 89 |
| 1995 | £47,200 | £102,606 | 100 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 4 home went from £47,200 in 1995 to £167,500 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 63%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 4 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 2003 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−10.6%). 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) | +4.4% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
WA8 4 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
Reading the WA8 4 market
This is a thin market: 28 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. 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. Within WA8, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WA8 4
For renting purposes WA8 4 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.
Set against the £167,500 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
Common questions on WA8 4 (Cronton)
How much did a house sell for in WA8 4 (Cronton)?
Are property prices falling in WA8 4 (Cronton)?
Is WA8 4 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
Are WA8 4 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 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 you could buy in WA8 now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Doughton Green, Widnes, Widnes
- Burns Crescent, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8
- Sidings Court, Guest Street, Widnes, Widnes
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
WA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 0 | £122,000 | 22 |
| WA8 3 | £210,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WA8 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA8 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA8 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA8 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA8 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA8 4 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.