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Clock Face market report WA9 2, St. Helens
The standing WA9 2 (Clock Face) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,833 registered sales in WA9 2 (St. Helens) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the WA9 2 (St. Helens) median at £135,000, up 48% on five years earlier, with a mean of £133,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,580 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,833 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA9 2 is one sector of WA9 (St. Helens): 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 WA9 2 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 WA9 2 homes really sell for
In the WA9 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £135,000, from 21 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £133,600, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in WA9 2
Per square metre, WA9 2 homes have averaged around £1,580 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA9 2 53% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA9 2 home, 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 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 49 |
| 2024 | £115,000 | £122,269 | 56 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 43 |
| 2022 | £105,500 | £123,711 | 54 |
| 2021 | £91,500 | £115,851 | 72 |
| 2020 | £75,000 | £97,314 | 45 |
| 2019 | £68,000 | £89,132 | 54 |
| 2018 | £75,000 | £99,976 | 82 |
| 2017 | £73,300 | £99,974 | 88 |
| 2016 | £65,000 | £90,936 | 47 |
| 2015 | £54,000 | £76,302 | 44 |
| 2014 | £58,000 | £82,283 | 36 |
| 2013 | £58,200 | £83,744 | 30 |
| 2012 | £52,000 | £76,538 | 29 |
| 2011 | £55,000 | £83,029 | 45 |
| 2010 | £60,000 | £94,095 | 14 |
| 2009 | £67,500 | £108,507 | 37 |
| 2008 | £77,800 | £127,531 | 54 |
| 2007 | £87,500 | £148,424 | 155 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 141 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 101 |
| 2004 | £59,000 | £107,156 | 85 |
| 2003 | £34,800 | £64,110 | 90 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 65 |
| 2001 | £31,000 | £59,596 | 49 |
| 2000 | £28,500 | £55,931 | 45 |
| 1999 | £26,000 | £51,817 | 44 |
| 1998 | £22,400 | £45,216 | 38 |
| 1997 | £27,700 | £56,807 | 50 |
| 1996 | £27,000 | £56,942 | 37 |
| 1995 | £27,000 | £58,694 | 33 |
In cash terms the typical WA9 2 home went from £27,000 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA9 2 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 (+69.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−19.1%). 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) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.1% | +3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.6% | +4.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in WA9 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
WA9 2 recorded 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 91 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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.
Reading the WA9 2 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WA9, this sector trades 22% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around WA9 2
For renting purposes WA9 2 sits in St. Helens. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,275, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £135,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 7.0% 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.
Asked and answered: WA9 2 (Clock Face)
How much did a house sell for in WA9 2 (Clock Face)?
Are property prices falling in WA9 2 (Clock Face)?
Is WA9 2 (Clock Face) a good place to buy a house?
Will WA9 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 48% over five years in cash and up 17% 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.
On the market in WA9 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 265 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA9 district, not just WA9 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 WA9 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WA9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA9 1 | £136,000 | 15 |
| WA9 3 | £155,000 | 53 |
| WA9 4 | £193,000 | 69 |
| WA9 5 | £183,000 | 65 |
Zoom out to the full WA9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA9 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WA9 2'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 WA9 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA9 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA9 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA9 2 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.