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Clock Face market report WA9 4, St. Helens
The standing WA9 4 (Clock Face) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,970 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA9 4 (St. Helens) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WA9 4 (St. Helens) home changed hands for £193,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £216,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,970 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA9 4 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 4 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.
The going rate for a home in WA9 4
The WA9 4 median stands at £193,000 for 2026, built from 69 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £216,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WA9 4
Per square metre, WA9 4 homes have averaged around £2,220 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 4 32% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA9 4 home, 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 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £178,500 | £182,768 | 204 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 174 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 165 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 233 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 279 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 211 |
| 2019 | £151,000 | £197,925 | 204 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 153 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 166 |
| 2016 | £113,500 | £158,788 | 171 |
| 2015 | £107,000 | £151,191 | 133 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 137 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 111 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 97 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 113 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 117 |
| 2009 | £107,000 | £172,003 | 110 |
| 2008 | £120,500 | £197,525 | 116 |
| 2007 | £122,100 | £207,116 | 247 |
| 2006 | £123,000 | £213,512 | 287 |
| 2005 | £115,800 | £206,077 | 192 |
| 2004 | £103,500 | £187,976 | 328 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 329 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 391 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 339 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 216 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 165 |
| 1998 | £37,900 | £76,504 | 128 |
| 1997 | £38,100 | £78,135 | 135 |
| 1996 | £37,500 | £79,086 | 117 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 133 |
In cash terms the typical WA9 4 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 122%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA9 4 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 (+38.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). 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) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −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.
How many homes change hands in WA9 4
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.
WA9 4 recorded 69 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 291 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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 4 market
Within WA9, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around WA9 4
For renting purposes WA9 4 sits in St. Helens. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £581 a month here against £1,275 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £193,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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 WA9 4 (Clock Face)
How much did a house sell for in WA9 4 (Clock Face)?
Are property prices falling in WA9 4 (Clock Face)?
Is WA9 4 (Clock Face) a good place to buy a house?
Are WA9 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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
The live side of the market holds 265 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA9 district, not just WA9 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £135,000 | 21 |
| WA9 3 | £155,000 | 53 |
| 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 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA9 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA9 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA9 4 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 WA9 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA9 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA9 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA9 4 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.
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.