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Haigh market report WN1, Wigan
The WN1 (Haigh) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,377 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN1 (Wigan) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WN1 (Wigan) sold for £185,000 in 2026, the median of 89 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £203,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,150 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,377 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WN1 is a postcode district covering Haigh, Ince, Swinley in Wigan. 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 WN1 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 WN1
Take the 89 registered 2026 sales in WN1 and the middle price, the median, is £185,000. The mean lands at £203,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WN1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN1 costs about £2,150 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WN1 35% below the national figure.
A typical WN1 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 274 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 254 |
| 2023 | £149,000 | £163,715 | 244 |
| 2022 | £176,000 | £206,380 | 272 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 328 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 236 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 253 |
| 2018 | £144,500 | £192,621 | 266 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 263 |
| 2016 | £131,500 | £183,970 | 263 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 260 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 254 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 242 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 206 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 207 |
| 2010 | £122,200 | £191,641 | 260 |
| 2009 | £122,800 | £197,402 | 198 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 233 |
| 2007 | £132,000 | £223,909 | 445 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 437 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 435 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 370 |
| 2003 | £74,000 | £136,326 | 429 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 421 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 356 |
| 2000 | £45,800 | £89,883 | 307 |
| 1999 | £45,800 | £91,277 | 320 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 291 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 337 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 330 |
| 1995 | £40,800 | £88,693 | 297 |
In cash terms the typical WN1 home went from £40,800 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 109%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN1 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.3%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £275,000 against £122,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WN1
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 | £275,000 | 13 | 1,353 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 37 | 3,615 |
| Terraced | £139,000 | 30 | 3,463 |
| Flats | £122,000 | 9 | 946 |
What WN1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.9% | −14.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WN1 recorded 211 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 400 sales a year before the financial crisis and 227 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.
How WN1 trades
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.
What homes rent for around WN1
The local authority for WN1 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £538 a month here against £1,137 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Asked and answered: WN1 (Haigh)
Is WN1 (Haigh) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN1 (Haigh)?
Are property prices falling in WN1 (Haigh)?
What happens to WN1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WN1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WN1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the WN1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Eccleston Street, Wigan, WN1, Wigan
- Sullivan Way, Wigan, WN1, Wigan
- Chorley Road, Standish, WN1, 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 WN1 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 WN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WN 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WN1 ranks 6 of 8 in the WN 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.
WN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WN1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN1 1 | £117,500 | 8 |
| WN1 2 | £215,000 | 45 |
| WN1 3 | £162,800 | 36 |
How WN1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WN4 | £202,500 | +23% |
| WN2 | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN1 (this report) | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 | £175,500 | +17% |
Selling a home in WN1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WN1.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WN1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.