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Ashton-in-Makerfield market report WN4, Wigan

The WN4 (Ashton-in-Makerfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 12,152 HM Land Registry entries for WN4 (Wigan), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: 132 registered 2026 sales put the WN4 (Wigan) median at £202,500, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £220,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 12,152 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

The postcode district WN4 covering Ashton-in-Makerfield, Garswood 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.

What WN4 homes really sell for

Take the 132 registered 2026 sales in WN4 and the middle price, the median, is £202,500. The mean lands at £220,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

WN4 prices by floor area

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN4 costs about £2,290 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WN4 29% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical WN4 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £202,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

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, 46% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £295,000 against £91,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.

The turnover behind the prices

WN4 recorded 295 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 526 sales a year before the financial crisis and 306 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 kind of market WN4 is

WN4 sits 2 of 8 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.

What tenants pay around WN4

WN4 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.

£741 a month is £8,892 a year, which against the £202,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.

What people ask about WN4 (Ashton-in-Makerfield)

Are WN4 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.

What you could buy in WN4 now

What another bedroom costs in WN

The risers and the fallers

WN4 ranks 2 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.

Inside WN4, 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.

How WN4 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:

Selling in WN4? Start from the sold record

Go deeper

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The live map plots every individual WN4 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.

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.