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Cronton market report WA8 9, Widnes
The WA8 9 (Cronton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,733 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA8 9 (Widnes) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WA8 9 (Widnes) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 36% on five years earlier), with the mean at £364,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,770 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,733 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA8 9 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 9 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 WA8 9 homes really sell for
Take the 69 registered 2026 sales in WA8 9 and the middle price, the median, is £340,000. The mean lands at £364,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WA8 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA8 9 costs about £2,770 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA8 9 sits 19% above the national market.
WA8 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 165 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 183 |
| 2023 | £252,500 | £277,436 | 130 |
| 2022 | £255,200 | £299,251 | 150 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 242 |
| 2020 | £234,000 | £303,620 | 191 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 226 |
| 2018 | £215,500 | £287,266 | 192 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 189 |
| 2016 | £211,000 | £295,191 | 246 |
| 2015 | £203,900 | £288,111 | 204 |
| 2014 | £184,000 | £261,036 | 193 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 194 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 155 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 135 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 121 |
| 2009 | £164,500 | £264,435 | 138 |
| 2008 | £183,000 | £299,976 | 152 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 344 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 337 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 315 |
| 2004 | £182,200 | £330,911 | 334 |
| 2003 | £144,000 | £265,283 | 487 |
| 2002 | £132,200 | £248,733 | 290 |
| 2001 | £110,500 | £212,431 | 184 |
| 2000 | £98,000 | £192,325 | 199 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 210 |
| 1998 | £83,600 | £168,753 | 208 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 225 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 178 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 9 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 9 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 2004 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA8 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +15.3% | +12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 69 sales completed in WA8 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 311 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
How WA8 9 trades
Within WA8, this sector trades 68% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around WA8 9
WA8 9 falls under Halton, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£738 a month is £8,856 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on WA8 9 (Cronton)
How much did a house sell for in WA8 9 (Cronton)?
Are property prices falling in WA8 9 (Cronton)?
Is WA8 9 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WA8 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WA8 now
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, 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%) | — | — |
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.
WA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 8 | £180,000 | 46 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA8 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA8 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA8 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WA8 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA8 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA8 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA8 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.