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Abram market report WN2 5, Wigan
The WN2 5 (Abram) 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: 5,253 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN2 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN2 5 (Wigan) came in at £173,000, out of 43 registered, up 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £201,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,940 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,253 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WN2 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WN2 (Wigan). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WN2 5 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 a home in WN2 5 sells for
The 2026 median for WN2 5 is £173,000, taken from 43 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £201,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
WN2 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN2 5 costs about £1,940 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN2 5 sits 39% below the national market.
A typical WN2 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £173,000 | £173,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 130 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 167 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 156 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 197 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 207 |
| 2020 | £108,000 | £140,132 | 172 |
| 2019 | £122,000 | £159,913 | 155 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 162 |
| 2017 | £97,500 | £132,980 | 132 |
| 2016 | £98,000 | £137,103 | 147 |
| 2015 | £87,000 | £122,931 | 120 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 114 |
| 2013 | £89,900 | £129,357 | 84 |
| 2012 | £80,000 | £117,750 | 97 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 71 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 107 |
| 2009 | £110,500 | £177,630 | 129 |
| 2008 | £108,300 | £177,527 | 173 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 381 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 318 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 294 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 287 |
| 2003 | £46,200 | £85,112 | 206 |
| 2002 | £38,000 | £71,497 | 171 |
| 2001 | £33,000 | £63,441 | 162 |
| 2000 | £28,500 | £55,931 | 179 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 149 |
| 1998 | £34,700 | £70,044 | 132 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 132 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 140 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical WN2 5 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £173,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 165%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. 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 WN2 5 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 (+62.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 5
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.
WN2 5 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 250 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
The rental side of WN2 5
The local authority for WN2 5 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 £173,000 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 5 market
This is a thin market: 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within WN2, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WN2 5 (Abram): the questions that come up
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Where do WN2 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in WN2 now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WN area. 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
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.
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 2 | £175,000 | 27 |
| WN2 3 | £150,800 | 56 |
| WN2 4 | £220,000 | 75 |
Zoom out to the full WN2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WN2 5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN2 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN2 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN2 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WN2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WN2 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WN2 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WN2 5 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.