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Appley Bridge market report WN6, Wigan
The WN6 (Appley Bridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 20,964 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN6 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN6 (Wigan) came in at £225,000, out of 192 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £263,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,510 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 20,964 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WN6 is the postcode district covering Appley Bridge, Beech Hill, Shevington in Wigan. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WN6 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 WN6
The WN6 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 192 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £263,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in WN6
By floor space, homes in WN6 have sold for about £2,510 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN6 sits 21% below the national market.
WN6's median sold price, 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 192 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 660 |
| 2024 | £211,500 | £224,868 | 659 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 610 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 788 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 897 |
| 2020 | £184,000 | £238,744 | 681 |
| 2019 | £174,800 | £229,121 | 713 |
| 2018 | £167,200 | £222,881 | 780 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 767 |
| 2016 | £152,000 | £212,650 | 690 |
| 2015 | £151,500 | £214,070 | 617 |
| 2014 | £137,800 | £195,493 | 548 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 531 |
| 2012 | £133,800 | £196,937 | 366 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 391 |
| 2010 | £128,500 | £201,521 | 386 |
| 2009 | £127,800 | £205,440 | 368 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 441 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 813 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 730 |
| 2005 | £122,500 | £218,001 | 675 |
| 2004 | £114,000 | £207,046 | 783 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 807 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 900 |
| 2001 | £63,200 | £121,499 | 835 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 743 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 679 |
| 1998 | £54,800 | £110,618 | 714 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 813 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 689 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 698 |
In cash terms the typical WN6 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 107%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. 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 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £118,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WN6
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 | £375,000 | 55 | 6,548 |
| Semi-detached | £228,500 | 78 | 7,702 |
| Terraced | £158,500 | 50 | 5,997 |
| Flats | £118,000 | 9 | 714 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 WN6
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WN6 recorded 506 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 786 sales a year before the financial crisis and 582 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 WN6 market
WN6 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
What tenants pay around WN6
WN6 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.
£741 a month is £8,892 a year, which against the £225,000 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 (Appley Bridge)
Is WN6 (Appley Bridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN6 (Appley Bridge)?
Are property prices falling in WN6 (Appley Bridge)?
Will WN6 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in WN6 right now
Everything above is what homes in WN6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 153 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the WN6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WN area. 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%) | — |
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
WN6 ranks 7 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 WN6, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 0 | £253,000 | 72 |
| WN6 7 | £160,000 | 44 |
| WN6 8 | £220,000 | 41 |
| WN6 9 | £290,000 | 35 |
How WN6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 (this report) | £225,000 | +15% |
| WN4 | £202,500 | +23% |
| WN2 | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN1 | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 | £175,500 | +17% |
Before you sell in WN6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WN6 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.