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Billinge market report WN5 8, Wigan
The standing WN5 8 (Billinge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,696 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WN5 8 (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 typical home in WN5 8 (Wigan) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 67 registered sales, up 41% on five years earlier. The mean was £244,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,696 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WN5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WN5 (Wigan). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WN5 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.
What a home in WN5 8 sells for
The 2026 median for WN5 8 is £230,000, taken from 67 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £244,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WN5 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN5 8 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WN5 8 runs 19% below it.
WN5 8's median sold price, 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 188 |
| 2024 | £197,500 | £209,983 | 175 |
| 2023 | £182,500 | £200,523 | 135 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 162 |
| 2021 | £163,000 | £206,379 | 215 |
| 2020 | £152,500 | £197,872 | 149 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 181 |
| 2018 | £149,000 | £198,620 | 171 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 181 |
| 2016 | £142,500 | £199,359 | 193 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 178 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 191 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 172 |
| 2012 | £133,000 | £195,759 | 137 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 117 |
| 2010 | £122,800 | £192,582 | 98 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 89 |
| 2008 | £121,200 | £198,672 | 128 |
| 2007 | £129,800 | £220,177 | 261 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 239 |
| 2005 | £112,500 | £200,205 | 224 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 272 |
| 2003 | £107,000 | £197,120 | 321 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 251 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 194 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 191 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 216 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 151 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 130 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 181 |
| 1995 | £42,600 | £92,606 | 138 |
In cash terms the typical WN5 8 home went from £42,600 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 148%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WN5 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 (+64.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +15.0% | +12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 WN5 8
The year-by-year sales count
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, 67 sales completed in WN5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 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 rental side of WN5 8
For renting purposes WN5 8 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.
Against the £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
The shape of the WN5 8 market
Against the WN5 district median, WN5 8 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WN5 8 (Billinge)
How much did a house sell for in WN5 8 (Billinge)?
Are property prices falling in WN5 8 (Billinge)?
Is WN5 8 (Billinge) a good place to buy a house?
Will WN5 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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 WN5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 162 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN5 district, not just WN5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WN area, 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.
Five-year change in the median, WN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WN5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WN5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN5 0 | £161,800 | 28 |
| WN5 7 | £248,000 | 57 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WN5 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN5 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WN5 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN5 8 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.