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Cronton market report WA8 8, Widnes
The standing WA8 8 (Cronton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,115 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA8 8 (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: 46 registered 2026 sales put the WA8 8 (Widnes) median at £180,000, up 36% on five years earlier, with a mean of £205,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,115 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WA8 8 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 8 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 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The WA8 8 median stands at £180,000 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £205,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WA8 8
A square metre of WA8 8 home has cost about £2,030 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 8 sits 37% below the national market.
WA8 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £167,000 | £170,993 | 113 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 120 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 121 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 139 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 156 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 108 |
| 2019 | £122,500 | £160,568 | 123 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 148 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 131 |
| 2016 | £116,000 | £162,285 | 149 |
| 2015 | £109,000 | £154,017 | 120 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 123 |
| 2013 | £104,500 | £150,365 | 102 |
| 2012 | £103,000 | £151,603 | 71 |
| 2011 | £104,000 | £157,000 | 67 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 61 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 71 |
| 2008 | £113,200 | £185,559 | 138 |
| 2007 | £115,900 | £196,599 | 312 |
| 2006 | £113,000 | £196,154 | 230 |
| 2005 | £98,400 | £175,112 | 164 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 179 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 218 |
| 2002 | £54,000 | £101,601 | 189 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 132 |
| 2000 | £46,200 | £90,668 | 139 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 106 |
| 1998 | £43,500 | £87,808 | 93 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 69 |
| 1996 | £41,900 | £88,365 | 98 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 97%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 8 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 (+40.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.8% | +5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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 8
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
WA8 8 recorded 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
What homes rent for around WA8 8
For renting purposes WA8 8 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 £180,000 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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 8 trades
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA8 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WA8 district median, WA8 8 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WA8 8 (Cronton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WA8 8 (Cronton)?
Are property prices falling in WA8 8 (Cronton)?
Is WA8 8 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WA8 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 8% 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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. 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. 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.
WA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 7 | £185,000 | 23 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WA8 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA8 8'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.
Estate agents working WA8 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA8 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WA8 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.