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Clock Face market report WA9, St. Helens
The WA9 (Clock Face) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 20,586 registered sales in WA9 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 223 registered 2026 sales put the WA9 (St. Helens) median at £173,000, up 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £186,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 20,586 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA9 is a postcode district covering Clock Face, Sutton, Thatto Heath in St. Helens. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WA9 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
Across 223 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA9 home went for £173,000. The mean is £186,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WA9
By floor space, homes in WA9 have sold for about £2,080 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA9 39% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WA9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £173,000 | £173,000 | 223 |
| 2025 | £183,000 | £187,376 | 730 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 686 |
| 2023 | £155,000 | £170,307 | 562 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 755 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 873 |
| 2020 | £136,500 | £177,112 | 637 |
| 2019 | £124,000 | £162,534 | 689 |
| 2018 | £113,000 | £150,631 | 613 |
| 2017 | £112,000 | £152,757 | 661 |
| 2016 | £106,000 | £148,295 | 581 |
| 2015 | £104,000 | £146,952 | 523 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 542 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 451 |
| 2012 | £97,000 | £142,772 | 349 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 415 |
| 2010 | £106,000 | £166,235 | 381 |
| 2009 | £93,000 | £149,498 | 329 |
| 2008 | £106,000 | £173,756 | 431 |
| 2007 | £108,800 | £184,555 | 986 |
| 2006 | £108,500 | £188,342 | 1,023 |
| 2005 | £110,500 | £196,645 | 952 |
| 2004 | £91,500 | £166,182 | 1,222 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 1,103 |
| 2002 | £53,500 | £100,660 | 1,053 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 791 |
| 2000 | £44,900 | £88,116 | 693 |
| 1999 | £38,500 | £76,728 | 583 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 439 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 457 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 429 |
| 1995 | £37,100 | £80,650 | 424 |
In cash terms the typical WA9 home went from £37,100 in 1995 to £173,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA9 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 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.3%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £300,600 against £93,800 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WA9
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 | £300,600 | 39 | 3,876 |
| Semi-detached | £185,000 | 95 | 7,564 |
| Terraced | £130,000 | 83 | 8,259 |
| Flats | £93,800 | 6 | 870 |
What WA9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 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
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 513 WA9 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 978 sales a year before the financial crisis and 591 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.
How WA9 trades
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. Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, WA9 ranks 15 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around WA9
The local authority for WA9 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £581 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,275 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £173,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
WA9 (Clock Face): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WA9 (Clock Face)?
Is WA9 (Clock Face) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA9 (Clock Face)?
Are WA9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
On the market in WA9 today
Everything above is what homes in WA9 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 265 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the WA9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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.
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%) | — | — |
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
WA9 ranks 6 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.
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.
Inside WA9, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| WA9 5 | £183,000 | 65 |
How WA9 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 | £202,500 | +19% |
| WA2 | £195,500 | +26% |
| WA11 | £185,500 | +21% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 (this report) | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Before you sell in WA9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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See every individual WA9 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.
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.