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Wigan market report WN
The WN (Wigan) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 141,949 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the WN postcode area (Wigan) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 1,460 registered 2026 sales put the the WN postcode area (Wigan) median at £190,000, up 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £219,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 141,949 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The figures for WN centred on Wigan run across 8 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where WN 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 WN
The WN median stands at £190,000 for 2026, built from 1,460 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £219,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in WN
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN sales average about £2,250 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WN 33% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WN 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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | £193,000 | £197,615 | 4,170 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 4,095 |
| 2023 | £174,800 | £192,063 | 3,769 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 4,734 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 5,447 |
| 2020 | £147,500 | £191,384 | 4,159 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 4,375 |
| 2018 | £133,000 | £177,292 | 4,543 |
| 2017 | £131,000 | £178,671 | 4,388 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 4,270 |
| 2015 | £124,500 | £175,919 | 3,952 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 3,710 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 3,169 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 2,612 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 2,667 |
| 2010 | £113,500 | £177,997 | 2,696 |
| 2009 | £113,000 | £181,648 | 2,496 |
| 2008 | £115,200 | £188,837 | 3,395 |
| 2007 | £119,500 | £202,705 | 6,796 |
| 2006 | £113,000 | £196,154 | 6,412 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 5,368 |
| 2004 | £91,000 | £165,274 | 6,463 |
| 2003 | £73,500 | £135,405 | 6,471 |
| 2002 | £58,000 | £109,126 | 6,759 |
| 2001 | £51,000 | £98,045 | 5,591 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 5,347 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 4,905 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 4,663 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 4,815 |
| 1996 | £42,200 | £88,998 | 4,374 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 3,878 |
In cash terms the typical WN home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 108%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WN has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £325,000 against £105,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WN
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 | £325,000 | 316 | 30,799 |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | 623 | 54,566 |
| Terraced | £145,000 | 450 | 50,563 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 71 | 6,021 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WN recorded 3,252 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 6,151 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,646 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.
Rents around WN
WN falls under Wigan, the local authority covering most of the WN area, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £538 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,137, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on WN (Wigan)
Are property prices falling in WN (Wigan)?
Is WN (Wigan) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN (Wigan)?
Are WN prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WN's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WN sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1,088 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% above the WN median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Farrier Way, Appley Bridge, WN6, Wigan
- Walmesley Road, Leigh, Leigh
- Prospect House, Standish, Wigan, WN6, Wigan
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 WN 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 WN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WN area, 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 | — | £230,000 | £315,000 (+37%) | £465,000 (+48%) | £692,500 (+49%) |
| Semi-detached | £168,000 | £180,000 (+7%) | £220,000 (+22%) | £289,995 (+32%) | — |
| Terraced | £125,750 | £130,000 (+3%) | £147,000 (+13%) | £190,000 (+29%) | — |
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 WN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The spread inside WN matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WN6 Appley Bridge, Beech Hill | £225,000 | +15% | 192 |
| WN4 Ashton-in-Makerfield, Garswood | £202,500 | +23% | 132 |
| WN2 Abram, Aspull | £190,000 | +27% | 241 |
| WN5 Billinge, Newtown | £190,000 | +23% | 209 |
| WN1 Haigh, Ince | £185,000 | +16% | 89 |
| WN3 Goose Green, Ince | £185,000 | +18% | 131 |
| WN8 Skelmersdale, Parbold | £185,000 | +15% | 220 |
| WN7 Leigh, Hope Carr | £175,500 | +17% | 246 |
Selling a home in WN? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN 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.