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Appley Bridge market report WN6 8, Wigan
The WN6 8 (Appley Bridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,754 HM Land Registry entries for WN6 8 (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 WN6 8 (Wigan) is £220,000, from 41 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £233,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,754 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 WN6 8 is a single group of streets within WN6 (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 WN6 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 WN6 8 homes really sell for
In the WN6 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £220,000, from 41 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £233,400, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WN6 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of WN6 8 home has cost about £2,480 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WN6 8 23% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WN6 8 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 163 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 141 |
| 2023 | £187,000 | £205,467 | 117 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 137 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 159 |
| 2020 | £159,000 | £206,306 | 135 |
| 2019 | £162,000 | £212,343 | 133 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 125 |
| 2017 | £157,000 | £214,132 | 178 |
| 2016 | £152,000 | £212,650 | 185 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 184 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 158 |
| 2013 | £147,500 | £212,238 | 144 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 88 |
| 2011 | £122,500 | £184,928 | 105 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 85 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 95 |
| 2008 | £133,900 | £219,490 | 96 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 179 |
| 2006 | £139,000 | £241,286 | 176 |
| 2005 | £133,500 | £237,576 | 155 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 200 |
| 2003 | £88,000 | £162,117 | 181 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 193 |
| 2001 | £60,500 | £116,308 | 192 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 160 |
| 1999 | £51,500 | £102,637 | 161 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 163 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 215 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 155 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical WN6 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £220,000 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN6 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 2004 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−9.6%). 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) | +10.0% | +7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
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.
The register shows 41 WN6 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 180 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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 kind of market WN6 8 is
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN6 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around WN6 8
The local authority for WN6 8 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£741 a month is £8,892 a year, which against the £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
Common questions on WN6 8 (Appley Bridge)
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What happens to WN6 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
WN6's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 153 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN6 district, not just WN6 8: 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
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 WN6 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.
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the WN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WN6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WN6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 0 | £253,000 | 72 |
| WN6 7 | £160,000 | 44 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WN6 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 WN6 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN6 8.
Keep digging
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See every individual WN6 8 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.