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Goose Green market report WN3, Wigan
The WN3 (Goose Green) 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: 14,158 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN3 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WN3 (Wigan) home changed hands for £185,000 in 2026 (median of 131 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £201,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 14,158 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district WN3 covering Goose Green, Ince, Winstanley sits in Wigan. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WN3 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 WN3 sells for
The 2026 median for WN3 is £185,000, taken from 131 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £201,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WN3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN3 sales average about £2,270 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN3 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WN3 home, 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 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 131 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 401 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 353 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 286 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 353 |
| 2021 | £157,000 | £198,782 | 451 |
| 2020 | £137,800 | £178,798 | 376 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 324 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 408 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 407 |
| 2016 | £129,000 | £180,472 | 444 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 432 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 455 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 390 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 234 |
| 2011 | £117,200 | £176,927 | 268 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 308 |
| 2009 | £116,500 | £187,275 | 298 |
| 2008 | £122,000 | £199,984 | 372 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 864 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 613 |
| 2005 | £107,500 | £191,307 | 470 |
| 2004 | £92,000 | £167,090 | 519 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 557 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 705 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 606 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 585 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 533 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 525 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 600 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 456 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 434 |
In cash terms the typical WN3 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 97%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN3 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 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−6.1%). 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, 48% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £270,000 against £68,000 for a flat, 4.0 times the price.
Median by property type, WN3
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 | £310,000 | 21 | 3,122 |
| Semi-detached | £194,000 | 66 | 6,792 |
| Terraced | £141,000 | 41 | 3,636 |
| Flats | £68,000 (2025) | – | 592 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 WN3
The year-by-year sales count
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 294 WN3 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 615 sales a year before the financial crisis and 305 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.
What tenants pay around WN3
WN3 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.
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.
What people ask about WN3 (Goose Green)
Is WN3 (Goose Green) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN3 (Goose Green)?
Are property prices falling in WN3 (Goose Green)?
Will WN3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WN3 now
Everything above is what homes in WN3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 142 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the WN3 median sold price.
26% 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.
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 WN3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WN
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WN area. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WN3 ranks 4 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WN3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WN3 4 | £125,000 | 18 |
| WN3 5 | £175,000 | 47 |
| WN3 6 | £215,000 | 66 |
How WN3 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 | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 (this report) | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 | £175,500 | +17% |
Before you sell in WN3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WN3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN3 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.