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Billinge market report WN5, Wigan
The WN5 (Billinge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 18,031 registered sales in WN5 (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 recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for WN5 (Wigan) is £190,000, from 238 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier; the mean is £220,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 18,031 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WN5 is a postcode district covering Billinge, Newtown, Higher End in Wigan. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WN5 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for WN5 is £190,000, taken from 238 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £220,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in WN5
Per square metre, WN5 homes have averaged around £2,220 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN5 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
WN5'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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 238 |
| 2025 | £194,000 | £198,639 | 580 |
| 2024 | £177,000 | £188,187 | 504 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 473 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 579 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 638 |
| 2020 | £141,000 | £182,950 | 465 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 553 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 620 |
| 2017 | £139,500 | £190,264 | 586 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 610 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 567 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 599 |
| 2013 | £117,800 | £169,502 | 516 |
| 2012 | £118,000 | £173,681 | 443 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 397 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 327 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 316 |
| 2008 | £119,800 | £196,377 | 414 |
| 2007 | £121,500 | £206,098 | 824 |
| 2006 | £114,000 | £197,889 | 765 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 676 |
| 2004 | £94,500 | £171,630 | 815 |
| 2003 | £77,000 | £141,853 | 843 |
| 2002 | £58,500 | £110,067 | 851 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 660 |
| 2000 | £51,000 | £100,088 | 618 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 587 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 525 |
| 1997 | £42,700 | £87,569 | 469 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 534 |
| 1995 | £39,100 | £84,997 | 439 |
In cash terms the typical WN5 home went from £39,100 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WN5 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−4.0%). 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 year (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.1% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £92,500 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WN5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £365,000 | 39 | 3,330 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 120 | 7,438 |
| Terraced | £145,000 | 71 | 6,710 |
| Flats | £92,500 | 8 | 553 |
Sales activity in WN5
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WN5 recorded 427 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 757 sales a year before the financial crisis and 475 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 tenants pay around WN5
WN5 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £190,000 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
What people ask about WN5 (Billinge)
How much did a house sell for in WN5 (Billinge)?
Are property prices falling in WN5 (Billinge)?
Is WN5 (Billinge) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WN5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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
Everything above is what homes in WN5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 157 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the WN5 median sold price.
Set against 427 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 157 homes on the market here are roughly 4 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 WN5 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.
Listed against sold: the WN5 mix
Sellers of terraced homes in WN5 have company: 41% of current listings against 33% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 13% | 15% |
| Semi-detached | 46% | 48% |
| Terraced | 41% | 33% |
| Flats | 0% | 3% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (27 of them here).
The WN5 sales calendar
Across the 2,774 sales completed in WN5 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.8% of the total) and January the quietest (5.3%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 146 | 5.3% |
| February | 242 | 8.7% |
| March | 300 | 10.8% |
| April | 206 | 7.4% |
| May | 199 | 7.2% |
| June | 259 | 9.3% |
| July | 235 | 8.5% |
| August | 263 | 9.5% |
| September | 288 | 10.4% |
| October | 220 | 7.9% |
| November | 228 | 8.2% |
| December | 188 | 6.8% |
What another bedroom costs in WN
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £185,000 | £215,000 (+16%) | £265,000 (+23%) | £328,000 (+24%) | £405,000 (+23%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £175,000 (+6%) | £195,000 (+11%) | £235,000 (+21%) | £290,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £126,750 | £131,000 (+3%) | £135,000 (+3%) | £175,000 (+30%) | £201,250 (+15%) |
| Flat | £81,500 | £107,000 (+31%) | £138,250 (+29%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WN5 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.
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.
Inside WN5, 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 WN5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WN4 | £200,000 | +21% |
| WN2 | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN3 | £190,000 | +21% |
| WN5 (this report) | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN1 | £182,000 | +14% |
| WN7 | £175,000 | +17% |
Selling a home in WN5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual WN5 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.