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Ashton-in-Makerfield market report WN4 8, Wigan
The WN4 8 (Ashton-in-Makerfield) 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: 3,941 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN4 8 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN4 8 (Wigan) came in at £220,000, out of 39 registered, up 38% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £231,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,941 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WN4 8 is one sector of WN4 (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 WN4 8 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.
Today's WN4 8 prices, from the sold record
In the WN4 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £220,000, from 39 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £231,400, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WN4 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN4 8 costs about £2,400 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 WN4 8 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WN4 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £202,500 | £207,342 | 102 |
| 2024 | £222,000 | £236,032 | 113 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 101 |
| 2022 | £184,000 | £215,761 | 80 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 111 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 89 |
| 2019 | £149,800 | £196,352 | 98 |
| 2018 | £155,500 | £207,284 | 112 |
| 2017 | £144,000 | £196,402 | 108 |
| 2016 | £132,000 | £184,669 | 98 |
| 2015 | £137,500 | £194,288 | 89 |
| 2014 | £124,000 | £175,916 | 87 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 77 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 67 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 63 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 43 |
| 2009 | £142,500 | £229,070 | 56 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 77 |
| 2007 | £129,200 | £219,159 | 156 |
| 2006 | £132,500 | £230,003 | 153 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 130 |
| 2004 | £114,000 | £207,046 | 148 |
| 2003 | £92,800 | £170,960 | 194 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 211 |
| 2001 | £64,400 | £123,806 | 202 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 235 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 217 |
| 1998 | £57,600 | £116,270 | 194 |
| 1997 | £61,600 | £126,329 | 166 |
| 1996 | £57,800 | £121,898 | 180 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical WN4 8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 91%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WN4 8 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 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−15.8%). 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) | +8.6% | +6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in WN4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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 shape of the WN4 8 market
This is a thin market: 39 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. Within WN4, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around WN4 8
WN4 8 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £538 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,137 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
Common questions on WN4 8 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)
Are property prices falling in WN4 8 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)?
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How much did a house sell for in WN4 8 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)?
Will WN4 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% 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.
WN4's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 168 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN4 district, not just WN4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Toothill Close, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, Wigan
- Sefton Road, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, Wigan
- Wotton Drive, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, 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 WN4 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
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. 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.
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 WN4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WN4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN4 0 | £202,500 | 50 |
| WN4 9 | £200,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full WN4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WN4 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN4 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN4 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN4 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WN4 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WN4 8.
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See every individual WN4 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.