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Cronton market report WA8 5, Widnes
The standing WA8 5 (Cronton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,739 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA8 5 (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 5 (Widnes) came in at £255,000, out of 13 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £297,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,840 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,739 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WA8 5 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 5 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 buyers actually paid in WA8 5
The 2026 median for WA8 5 is £255,000, taken from 13 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £297,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WA8 5
By floor space, homes in WA8 5 have sold for about £2,840 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA8 5 11% below the national figure.
WA8 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 63 |
| 2024 | £292,500 | £310,988 | 64 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 51 |
| 2022 | £263,500 | £308,984 | 56 |
| 2021 | £256,200 | £324,382 | 80 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 47 |
| 2019 | £197,000 | £258,220 | 39 |
| 2018 | £254,500 | £339,253 | 86 |
| 2017 | £236,000 | £321,880 | 105 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 103 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 82 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 110 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 92 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 53 |
| 2011 | £193,500 | £292,111 | 35 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 43 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 43 |
| 2008 | £192,500 | £315,548 | 22 |
| 2007 | £171,500 | £290,912 | 38 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 57 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 107 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 76 |
| 2003 | £177,500 | £326,998 | 48 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 45 |
| 2001 | £81,000 | £155,718 | 25 |
| 2000 | £68,400 | £134,235 | 30 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 22 |
| 1998 | £59,500 | £120,105 | 21 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 21 |
| 1996 | £59,200 | £124,850 | 38 |
| 1995 | £56,700 | £123,257 | 24 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 5 home went from £56,700 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 5 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 (+86.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−22.6%). 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) | −21.5% | −23.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WA8 5
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.
WA8 5 recorded 13 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 49 sales a year recently, against 53 a year before 2008. 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 WA8 5
For renting purposes WA8 5 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.
Set against the £255,000 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Reading the WA8 5 market
This is a thin market: 13 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. 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. Against the WA8 district median, WA8 5 sits 26% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about WA8 5 (Cronton)
Are property prices falling in WA8 5 (Cronton)?
Is WA8 5 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA8 5 (Cronton)?
Are WA8 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
WA8's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Doughton Green, Widnes, Widnes
- Burns Crescent, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8
- Sidings Court, Guest Street, Widnes, Widnes
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 3 | £210,000 | 35 |
| WA8 4 | £167,500 | 28 |
| 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 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA8 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA8 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA8 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA8 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA8 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA8 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual WA8 5 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.