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Abram market report WN2 1, Wigan
The WN2 1 (Abram) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,478 registered sales in WN2 1 (Wigan) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the WN2 1 (Wigan) median at £195,200, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £212,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,478 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WN2 1 is one sector of WN2 (Wigan): 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 WN2 1 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 WN2 1
Take the 40 registered 2026 sales in WN2 1 and the middle price, the median, is £195,200. The mean lands at £212,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WN2 1
Per square metre, WN2 1 homes have averaged around £2,380 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN2 1 sits 32% below the national market.
The price of a typical WN2 1 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,200 | £195,200 | 40 |
| 2025 | £193,800 | £198,434 | 107 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 96 |
| 2023 | £172,000 | £188,986 | 91 |
| 2022 | £181,300 | £212,595 | 122 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 195 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 116 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 136 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 117 |
| 2017 | £144,000 | £196,402 | 99 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 111 |
| 2015 | £124,500 | £175,919 | 116 |
| 2014 | £124,500 | £176,625 | 94 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 86 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 99 |
| 2011 | £117,500 | £177,380 | 65 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 55 |
| 2009 | £109,200 | £175,540 | 62 |
| 2008 | £128,000 | £209,819 | 95 |
| 2007 | £134,000 | £227,301 | 138 |
| 2006 | £126,000 | £218,720 | 132 |
| 2005 | £124,500 | £221,560 | 102 |
| 2004 | £108,000 | £196,149 | 165 |
| 2003 | £91,200 | £168,013 | 124 |
| 2002 | £66,000 | £124,178 | 143 |
| 2001 | £52,500 | £100,929 | 121 |
| 2000 | £60,800 | £119,320 | 136 |
| 1999 | £50,200 | £100,046 | 114 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 108 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 124 |
| 1996 | £45,700 | £96,379 | 82 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical WN2 1 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £195,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 100%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WN2 1 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 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.7%). 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) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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 WN2 1
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.
WN2 1 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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 WN2 1 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN2 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around WN2 1
WN2 1 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£741 a month is £8,892 a year, which against the £195,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
Asked and answered: WN2 1 (Abram)
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What happens to WN2 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WN2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 156 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN2 district, not just WN2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Castleway, Hindley, Wigan, Wigan
- Shortland Place, Bickershaw, Wigan, Wigan
- Kirkwood Close, Aspull, WN2, 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 WN2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in WN
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WN area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WN2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WN2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN2 2 | £175,000 | 27 |
| WN2 3 | £150,800 | 56 |
| WN2 4 | £220,000 | 75 |
| WN2 5 | £173,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full WN2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WN2 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN2 1'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 WN2 1.
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The live map plots every individual WN2 1 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.
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.