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Clock Face market report WA9 5, St. Helens
The WA9 5 (Clock Face) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,859 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA9 5 (St. Helens) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 65 registered 2026 sales put the WA9 5 (St. Helens) median at £183,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £205,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,230 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,859 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA9 5 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 5 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 5 homes really sell for
The WA9 5 median stands at £183,000 for 2026, built from 65 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £205,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WA9 5
By floor space, homes in WA9 5 have sold for about £2,230 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WA9 5 runs 36% below it.
WA9 5's median sold price, 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 | £183,000 | £183,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 245 |
| 2024 | £228,000 | £242,411 | 251 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 137 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 204 |
| 2021 | £187,000 | £236,766 | 261 |
| 2020 | £172,500 | £223,822 | 191 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 184 |
| 2018 | £154,200 | £205,552 | 190 |
| 2017 | £148,800 | £202,948 | 210 |
| 2016 | £157,000 | £219,645 | 165 |
| 2015 | £137,000 | £193,581 | 158 |
| 2014 | £137,500 | £195,068 | 179 |
| 2013 | £152,000 | £218,713 | 149 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 121 |
| 2011 | £152,000 | £229,462 | 129 |
| 2010 | £155,900 | £244,491 | 128 |
| 2009 | £121,100 | £194,669 | 94 |
| 2008 | £132,500 | £217,195 | 109 |
| 2007 | £125,500 | £212,883 | 234 |
| 2006 | £121,000 | £210,041 | 252 |
| 2005 | £116,000 | £206,433 | 301 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 351 |
| 2003 | £102,700 | £189,198 | 342 |
| 2002 | £68,500 | £128,882 | 226 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 169 |
| 2000 | £59,500 | £116,769 | 231 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 177 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 101 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 121 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 105 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical WA9 5 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £183,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2010; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2010 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA9 5 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 (+49.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−22.1%). 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) | −22.1% | −23.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in WA9 5
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 65 WA9 5 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 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 180 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around WA9 5
WA9 5 falls under St. Helens, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £183,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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 5 (Clock Face)
Are property prices falling in WA9 5 (Clock Face)?
Is WA9 5 (Clock Face) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA9 5 (Clock Face)?
Will WA9 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 WA9 now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £155,000 | 53 |
| WA9 4 | £193,000 | 69 |
Zoom out to the full WA9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WA9 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA9 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA9 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA9 5 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 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA9 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA9 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WA9 5 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.