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Cronton market report WA8 7, Widnes
The WA8 7 (Cronton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,719 registered sales in WA8 7 (Widnes) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 23 registered 2026 sales put the WA8 7 (Widnes) median at £185,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £209,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,230 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,719 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WA8 7 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 7 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 7
23 sales were registered in WA8 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £185,000. The mean works out at £209,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WA8 7
A square metre of WA8 7 home has cost about £2,230 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA8 7 sits 35% below the national market.
A typical WA8 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 115 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 101 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 89 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 100 |
| 2021 | £163,000 | £206,379 | 111 |
| 2020 | £139,000 | £180,355 | 82 |
| 2019 | £131,500 | £172,365 | 115 |
| 2018 | £130,500 | £173,959 | 118 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 172 |
| 2016 | £154,000 | £215,448 | 144 |
| 2015 | £116,000 | £163,908 | 95 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 97 |
| 2013 | £108,500 | £156,121 | 82 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 57 |
| 2011 | £119,000 | £179,644 | 70 |
| 2010 | £106,800 | £167,490 | 65 |
| 2009 | £94,200 | £151,427 | 54 |
| 2008 | £113,000 | £185,231 | 79 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 163 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 183 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 107 |
| 2004 | £88,200 | £160,188 | 190 |
| 2003 | £74,800 | £137,800 | 192 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 159 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 159 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 180 |
| 1999 | £54,200 | £108,018 | 140 |
| 1998 | £52,400 | £105,773 | 144 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 126 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 127 |
| 1995 | £40,200 | £87,389 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 7 home went from £40,200 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 112%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 7 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 2016 (+32.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−22.1%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA8 7
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in WA8 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 167 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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 7
The local authority for WA8 7 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.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Reading the WA8 7 market
This is a thin market: 23 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 7 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about WA8 7 (Cronton)
Are property prices falling in WA8 7 (Cronton)?
Is WA8 7 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA8 7 (Cronton)?
Will WA8 7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WA8 right 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 7: 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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
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 6 | £173,000 | 35 |
| 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 7? 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 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA8 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA8 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA8 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA8 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA8 7 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.