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Appley Bridge market report WN6 7, Wigan
The standing WN6 7 (Appley Bridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,285 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN6 7 (Wigan) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WN6 7 (Wigan) home changed hands for £160,000 in 2026 (median of 44 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £167,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,285 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WN6 7 is one sector of WN6 (Wigan): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WN6 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.
What buyers actually paid in WN6 7
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in WN6 7 and the middle price, the median, is £160,000. The mean lands at £167,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WN6 7
Per square metre, WN6 7 homes have averaged around £1,850 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WN6 7 44% below the country at large.
A typical WN6 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 165 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 126 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 131 |
| 2022 | £137,500 | £161,234 | 167 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 147 |
| 2020 | £116,000 | £150,512 | 113 |
| 2019 | £112,000 | £146,805 | 145 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 163 |
| 2017 | £111,500 | £152,075 | 164 |
| 2016 | £102,000 | £142,699 | 158 |
| 2015 | £102,000 | £144,126 | 131 |
| 2014 | £102,900 | £145,982 | 128 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 129 |
| 2012 | £92,500 | £136,148 | 84 |
| 2011 | £93,000 | £140,394 | 94 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 87 |
| 2009 | £102,000 | £163,966 | 101 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 146 |
| 2007 | £106,000 | £179,806 | 263 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 219 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 220 |
| 2004 | £80,100 | £145,477 | 208 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 222 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 288 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 277 |
| 2000 | £39,700 | £77,911 | 232 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 191 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 179 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 229 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 173 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical WN6 7 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 116%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN6 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 2003 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.4%). 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 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in WN6 7
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, 44 sales completed in WN6 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
Rents around WN6 7
WN6 7 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the WN6 7 market
This is a thin market: 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within WN6, this sector trades 29% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about WN6 7 (Appley Bridge)
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Are WN6 7 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 WN6 now
The live side of the market holds 153 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN6 district, not just WN6 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Farrier Way, Appley Bridge, WN6, Wigan
- Prospect House, Standish, Wigan, WN6, Wigan
- Barbrook Close, Standish, WN6, Wigan
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WN6 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
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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WN6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 0 | £253,000 | 72 |
| WN6 8 | £220,000 | 41 |
| WN6 9 | £290,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full WN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WN6 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN6 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN6 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN6 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 WN6 7.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WN6 7 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.
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.