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Abram market report WN2 2, Wigan
The WN2 2 (Abram) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,257 HM Land Registry entries for WN2 2 (Wigan), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WN2 2 (Wigan) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £189,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,310 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,257 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WN2 2 is a single group of streets within WN2 (Wigan), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WN2 2 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.
WN2 2 sold prices: where the market stands
27 sales were registered in WN2 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £175,000. The mean works out at £189,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
WN2 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of WN2 2 home has cost about £2,310 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WN2 2 runs 39% below it.
WN2 2'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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £231,000 | £236,524 | 136 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 162 |
| 2023 | £208,600 | £229,200 | 153 |
| 2022 | £191,000 | £223,969 | 160 |
| 2021 | £161,000 | £203,847 | 115 |
| 2020 | £117,500 | £152,459 | 73 |
| 2019 | £100,000 | £131,076 | 77 |
| 2018 | £107,000 | £142,633 | 93 |
| 2017 | £91,000 | £124,115 | 79 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 92 |
| 2015 | £100,500 | £142,007 | 78 |
| 2014 | £89,800 | £127,397 | 72 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 57 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 41 |
| 2011 | £82,400 | £124,392 | 58 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 67 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 47 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 79 |
| 2007 | £113,400 | £192,358 | 188 |
| 2006 | £87,500 | £151,889 | 159 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 127 |
| 2004 | £77,500 | £140,755 | 129 |
| 2003 | £53,000 | £97,639 | 141 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 161 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 108 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 102 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 99 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 89 |
| 1997 | £40,800 | £83,673 | 112 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 76 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 100 |
In cash terms the typical WN2 2 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN2 2 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 (+46.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−24.2%). 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) | −24.2% | −26.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in WN2 2. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 128 sales a year recently, against 139 a year before 2008. 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.
What tenants pay around WN2 2
The local authority for WN2 2 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
The shape of the WN2 2 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN2 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within WN2, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WN2 2 (Abram): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WN2 2 (Abram)?
Are property prices falling in WN2 2 (Abram)?
Is WN2 2 (Abram) a good place to buy a house?
Will WN2 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in WN2 today
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WN 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 WN2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN2 1 | £195,200 | 40 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WN2 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN2 2'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 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN2 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WN2 2 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.
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.