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Abram market report WN2, Wigan
The standing WN2 (Abram) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 23,848 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN2 (Wigan) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 241 registered 2026 sales put the WN2 (Wigan) median at £190,000, up 27% on five years earlier, with a mean of £202,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 23,848 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WN2 is a postcode district covering Abram, Aspull, Bamfurlong 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 WN2 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
The 2026 median for WN2 is £190,000, taken from 241 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £202,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WN2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN2 costs about £2,160 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN2 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
A typical WN2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 241 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 675 |
| 2024 | £179,000 | £190,314 | 742 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 657 |
| 2022 | £162,500 | £190,550 | 829 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 855 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 689 |
| 2019 | £132,200 | £173,283 | 764 |
| 2018 | £123,200 | £164,228 | 758 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 689 |
| 2016 | £112,200 | £156,969 | 672 |
| 2015 | £107,200 | £151,474 | 608 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 582 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 458 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 425 |
| 2011 | £97,500 | £147,188 | 415 |
| 2010 | £96,000 | £150,553 | 419 |
| 2009 | £103,000 | £165,573 | 440 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 609 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 1,259 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 1,199 |
| 2005 | £96,200 | £171,197 | 978 |
| 2004 | £89,000 | £161,641 | 1,312 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 1,209 |
| 2002 | £51,000 | £95,956 | 1,071 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 907 |
| 2000 | £43,400 | £85,173 | 916 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 737 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 734 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 724 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 653 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 622 |
In cash terms the typical WN2 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WN2 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 (+43.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−6.8%). 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, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £305,000 against £89,800 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, WN2
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 | £305,000 | 53 | 5,046 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 105 | 9,174 |
| Terraced | £140,600 | 71 | 9,099 |
| Flats | £89,800 | 12 | 512 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 515 WN2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,106 sales a year before the financial crisis and 629 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.
The shape of the WN2 market
Among the 8 measurable districts of its area, WN2 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around WN2
For renting purposes WN2 sits in Wigan. The ONS average private rent there is £741 a month (May 2026). 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 £190,000 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
Common questions on WN2 (Abram)
Is WN2 (Abram) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN2 (Abram)?
Are property prices falling in WN2 (Abram)?
Are WN2 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in WN2 now
Everything above is what homes in WN2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 156 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% above the WN2 median sold price.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Castleway, Hindley, Wigan, Wigan
- Shortland Place, Bickershaw, Wigan, Wigan
- Kirkwood Close, Aspull, WN2, Wigan
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WN2 ranks 1 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.
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.
Inside WN2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WN2 1 | £195,200 | 40 |
| WN2 2 | £175,000 | 27 |
| WN2 3 | £150,800 | 56 |
| WN2 4 | £220,000 | 75 |
| WN2 5 | £173,000 | 43 |
How WN2 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 (this report) | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN1 | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 | £175,500 | +17% |
Thinking of selling in WN2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN2 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.