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Billinge market report WN5 9, Wigan
The WN5 9 (Billinge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,272 HM Land Registry entries for WN5 9 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WN5 9 (Wigan) is £148,500, from 57 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier; the mean is £157,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,820 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,272 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WN5 9 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 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.
The going rate for a home in WN5 9
In the WN5 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £148,500, from 57 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £157,200, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WN5 9
The last five years of sales put WN5 9 at roughly £1,820 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 9 sits 48% below the national market.
WN5 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £148,500 | £148,500 | 57 |
| 2025 | £155,500 | £159,218 | 110 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 108 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 125 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 163 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 130 |
| 2020 | £110,000 | £142,727 | 100 |
| 2019 | £102,500 | £134,353 | 131 |
| 2018 | £104,500 | £139,300 | 148 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 117 |
| 2016 | £94,000 | £131,507 | 143 |
| 2015 | £81,000 | £114,453 | 121 |
| 2014 | £85,500 | £121,297 | 94 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 105 |
| 2012 | £76,000 | £111,863 | 94 |
| 2011 | £84,700 | £127,864 | 82 |
| 2010 | £83,000 | £130,165 | 62 |
| 2009 | £79,000 | £126,993 | 69 |
| 2008 | £98,000 | £160,643 | 103 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 233 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 249 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 227 |
| 2004 | £79,000 | £143,479 | 248 |
| 2003 | £56,000 | £103,166 | 199 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 244 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 159 |
| 2000 | £34,000 | £66,725 | 137 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 100 |
| 1998 | £31,000 | £62,576 | 101 |
| 1997 | £32,500 | £66,651 | 99 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 117 |
| 1995 | £31,500 | £68,476 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical WN5 9 home went from £31,500 in 1995 to £148,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 117%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN5 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 2004 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.4%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 9
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, 57 sales completed in WN5 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 212 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the WN5 9 market
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN5 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WN5, this sector trades 22% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WN5 9
The local authority for WN5 9 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £538 a month here against £1,137 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £148,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
Asked and answered: WN5 9 (Billinge)
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What happens to WN5 9 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WN5's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 162 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN5 district, not just WN5 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
What another bedroom costs 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.
Winners and losers across the WN area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WN5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WN5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN5 0 | £161,800 | 28 |
| WN5 7 | £248,000 | 57 |
| WN5 8 | £230,000 | 67 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN5 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN5 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN5 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual WN5 9 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.