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Ashton-in-Makerfield market report WN4 9, Wigan
The standing WN4 9 (Ashton-in-Makerfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,589 registered sales in WN4 9 (Wigan) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the WN4 9 (Wigan) median at £200,000, up 38% on five years earlier, with a mean of £196,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,180 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,589 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WN4 9 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 9 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 9 prices, from the sold record
43 sales were registered in WN4 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £200,000. The mean works out at £196,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WN4 9
Per square metre, WN4 9 homes have averaged around £2,180 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WN4 9 runs 30% below it.
WN4 9's median sold price, 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 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £185,200 | £189,629 | 160 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 132 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 104 |
| 2022 | £157,500 | £184,687 | 160 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 132 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 123 |
| 2019 | £136,000 | £178,263 | 117 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 152 |
| 2017 | £122,800 | £167,487 | 136 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 153 |
| 2015 | £123,500 | £174,506 | 144 |
| 2014 | £122,000 | £173,078 | 104 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 84 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 87 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 77 |
| 2010 | £101,000 | £158,394 | 70 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 81 |
| 2008 | £119,200 | £195,394 | 146 |
| 2007 | £122,800 | £208,303 | 248 |
| 2006 | £123,800 | £214,901 | 208 |
| 2005 | £96,500 | £171,731 | 148 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 190 |
| 2003 | £78,700 | £144,984 | 210 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 209 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 186 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 213 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 177 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 119 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 168 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 155 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 153 |
In cash terms the typical WN4 9 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 116%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN4 9 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 (+33.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WN4 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 43 WN4 9 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 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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.
How WN4 9 trades
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.
What tenants pay around WN4 9
For renting purposes WN4 9 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.
Set against the £200,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on WN4 9 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)
Is WN4 9 (Ashton-in-Makerfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN4 9 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)?
Are property prices falling in WN4 9 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)?
Where do WN4 9 prices go next?
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.
What you could buy in WN4 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 168 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN4 district, not just WN4 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WN
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight 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%) | — |
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.
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.
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 8 | £220,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full WN4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WN4 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN4 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN4 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN4 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN4 9.
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See every individual WN4 9 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.