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Cronton market report WA8, Widnes
The standing WA8 (Cronton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 27,301 registered sales in WA8 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WA8 (Widnes) is £202,500, from 271 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £244,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 27,301 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district WA8 covering Widnes, Cronton sits in Widnes. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WA8 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.
Today's WA8 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for WA8 is £202,500, taken from 271 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £244,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
WA8 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in WA8 have sold for about £2,340 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA8 sits 29% below the national market.
A typical WA8 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 | £202,500 | £202,500 | 271 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 795 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 741 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 629 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 783 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 945 |
| 2020 | £151,000 | £195,926 | 715 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 834 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 933 |
| 2017 | £148,000 | £201,857 | 1,003 |
| 2016 | £152,000 | £212,650 | 962 |
| 2015 | £142,000 | £200,646 | 829 |
| 2014 | £139,200 | £197,480 | 854 |
| 2013 | £136,500 | £196,410 | 710 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 511 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 471 |
| 2010 | £129,800 | £203,560 | 458 |
| 2009 | £123,000 | £197,724 | 451 |
| 2008 | £117,000 | £191,788 | 668 |
| 2007 | £122,700 | £208,133 | 1,396 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 1,418 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 1,241 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 1,417 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 1,511 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 1,209 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 938 |
| 2000 | £51,700 | £101,461 | 960 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 837 |
| 1998 | £51,500 | £103,956 | 746 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 679 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 747 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 639 |
In cash terms the typical WA8 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £202,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA8 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 2002 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−4.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £98,800 for a flat, 3.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WA8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £375,000 | 71 | 7,125 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 99 | 9,310 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 83 | 9,112 |
| Flats | £98,800 | 18 | 1,754 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 590 sales completed in WA8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,261 sales a year before the financial crisis and 644 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WA8
WA8 falls under Halton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £738 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £202,500 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
WA8 (Cronton): the questions that come up
Is WA8 (Cronton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA8 (Cronton)?
Are property prices falling in WA8 (Cronton)?
Where do WA8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WA8 today
Everything above is what homes in WA8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 252 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the WA8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WA8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WA8 ranks 7 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
WA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| WA8 9 | £340,000 | 69 |
How WA8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £447,500 | +3% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £375,000 | +4% |
| WA4 | £314,000 | +8% |
| WA6 | £302,500 | +15% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £254,000 | +14% |
| WA1 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WA12 | £215,000 | +19% |
| WA8 (this report) | £202,500 | +19% |
| WA2 | £195,500 | +26% |
| WA11 | £185,500 | +21% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Before you sell in WA8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA8'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.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.