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Billinge market report WN5 7, Wigan
The WN5 7 (Billinge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,656 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WN5 7 (Wigan) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WN5 7 (Wigan) is £248,000, from 57 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier; the mean is £290,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,656 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like WN5 7 is a single group of streets within WN5 (Wigan), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WN5 7 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 WN5 7 prices, from the sold record
Across 57 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WN5 7 home went for £248,000. The mean is £290,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
WN5 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WN5 7 at roughly £2,610 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN5 7 sits 13% below the national market.
The price of a typical WN5 7 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £248,000 | £248,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 166 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 151 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 109 |
| 2022 | £216,600 | £253,988 | 160 |
| 2021 | £190,500 | £241,198 | 194 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 135 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 141 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 198 |
| 2017 | £189,400 | £258,323 | 206 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 179 |
| 2015 | £157,500 | £222,548 | 147 |
| 2014 | £151,500 | £214,929 | 171 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 142 |
| 2012 | £156,000 | £229,613 | 113 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 135 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 113 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 98 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 107 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 160 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 152 |
| 2005 | £144,000 | £256,262 | 94 |
| 2004 | £137,200 | £249,182 | 148 |
| 2003 | £109,200 | £201,173 | 156 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 179 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 151 |
| 2000 | £63,500 | £124,619 | 163 |
| 1999 | £66,800 | £133,129 | 172 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 159 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 148 |
| 1996 | £49,100 | £103,550 | 138 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 114 |
In cash terms the typical WN5 7 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £248,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WN5 7 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 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WN5 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.4% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 57 sales completed in WN5 7. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 129 sales a year recently, against 150 a year before 2008. 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 WN5 7 trades
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN5 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WN5 district median, WN5 7 sits 31% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around WN5 7
The local authority for WN5 7 is St. Helens, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £581 a month here against £1,275 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, St. Helens
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £248,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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 WN5 7 (Billinge)
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Are property prices falling in WN5 7 (Billinge)?
Are WN5 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WN5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 162 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN5 district, not just WN5 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Gategill Grove, Billinge, WN5, Wigan
- Church Drive, Orrell, Wigan, Wigan
- Leopold Street, Pemberton, Wigan, Wigan
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 WN5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. 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.
WN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WN5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN5 0 | £161,800 | 28 |
| WN5 8 | £230,000 | 67 |
| WN5 9 | £148,500 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full WN5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WN5 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN5 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN5 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN5 7 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 WN5 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN5 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WN5 7 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.
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.