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Clock Face market report WA9 3, St. Helens
The WA9 3 (Clock Face) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,203 registered sales in WA9 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WA9 3 (St. Helens) sold for £155,000 in 2026, the median of 53 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier. The mean was £159,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,203 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA9 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA9 (St. Helens). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WA9 3 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 WA9 3
53 sales were registered in WA9 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £155,000. The mean works out at £159,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WA9 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA9 3 sales average about £2,020 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA9 3 46% below the country at large.
WA9 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £188,700 | £193,212 | 194 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 174 |
| 2023 | £164,500 | £180,745 | 176 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 212 |
| 2021 | £126,000 | £159,532 | 203 |
| 2020 | £112,500 | £145,971 | 158 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 208 |
| 2018 | £101,500 | £135,301 | 142 |
| 2017 | £97,000 | £132,298 | 158 |
| 2016 | £80,000 | £111,921 | 147 |
| 2015 | £96,200 | £135,931 | 138 |
| 2014 | £109,000 | £154,636 | 132 |
| 2013 | £75,000 | £107,918 | 107 |
| 2012 | £89,000 | £130,997 | 70 |
| 2011 | £81,500 | £123,034 | 80 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 74 |
| 2009 | £81,500 | £131,012 | 60 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 98 |
| 2007 | £91,000 | £154,361 | 219 |
| 2006 | £95,800 | £166,297 | 232 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 271 |
| 2004 | £88,800 | £161,278 | 360 |
| 2003 | £61,700 | £113,666 | 250 |
| 2002 | £39,500 | £74,319 | 281 |
| 2001 | £38,500 | £74,014 | 193 |
| 2000 | £36,700 | £72,024 | 158 |
| 1999 | £31,000 | £61,781 | 129 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 118 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 123 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 135 |
| 1995 | £39,900 | £86,736 | 150 |
In cash terms the typical WA9 3 home went from £39,900 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 79%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA9 3 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 (+56.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.9%). 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) | −17.9% | −19.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.3% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 53 WA9 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 246 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 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 tenants pay around WA9 3
The local authority for WA9 3 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £155,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
What kind of market WA9 3 is
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA9 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 WA9 district median, WA9 3 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about WA9 3 (Clock Face)
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Are WA9 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WA9 right now
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 3: 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA9 1 | £136,000 | 15 |
| WA9 2 | £135,000 | 21 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WA9 3: 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 WA9 3'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 WA9 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA9 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA9 3 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.
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.