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Cronton market report WA8 6, Widnes
The WA8 6 (Cronton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,942 HM Land Registry entries for WA8 6 (Widnes), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA8 6 (Widnes) came in at £173,000, out of 35 registered, up 31% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £174,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,942 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA8 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA8 (Widnes). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WA8 6 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 6
35 sales were registered in WA8 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £173,000. The mean works out at £174,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WA8 6
The last five years of sales put WA8 6 at roughly £1,860 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA8 6 trades 39% below the country as a whole.
A typical WA8 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £173,000 | £173,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 118 |
| 2024 | £128,000 | £136,090 | 95 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 103 |
| 2022 | £124,200 | £145,639 | 118 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 111 |
| 2020 | £108,000 | £140,132 | 81 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 137 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 163 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 157 |
| 2016 | £82,200 | £114,999 | 104 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 87 |
| 2014 | £79,000 | £112,075 | 83 |
| 2013 | £82,000 | £117,990 | 79 |
| 2012 | £82,000 | £120,694 | 57 |
| 2011 | £80,000 | £120,769 | 51 |
| 2010 | £81,800 | £128,283 | 70 |
| 2009 | £76,200 | £122,492 | 48 |
| 2008 | £89,200 | £146,218 | 104 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 212 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 241 |
| 2005 | £82,200 | £146,283 | 191 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 255 |
| 2003 | £51,000 | £93,954 | 208 |
| 2002 | £39,000 | £73,378 | 172 |
| 2001 | £34,500 | £66,324 | 147 |
| 2000 | £32,500 | £63,781 | 177 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 137 |
| 1998 | £32,500 | £65,604 | 111 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 83 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 110 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 6 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £173,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 141%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 6 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 2017 (+58.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−21.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +33.1% | +30.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.6% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.7% | +4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 35 WA8 6 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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.
Rents around WA8 6
The local authority for WA8 6 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 £173,000 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
How WA8 6 trades
This is a thin market: 35 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 6 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about WA8 6 (Cronton)
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What happens to WA8 6 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WA8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 252 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA8 district, not just WA8 6: 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
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA8 0 | £122,000 | 22 |
| WA8 3 | £210,000 | 35 |
| WA8 4 | £167,500 | 28 |
| WA8 5 | £255,000 | 13 |
| 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 6? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA8 6'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA8 6.
Take it further
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See every individual WA8 6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.