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Hope Carr market report WN7 1, Leigh
The standing WN7 1 (Hope Carr) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,812 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN7 1 (Leigh) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WN7 1 (Leigh) home changed hands for £153,100 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £193,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,812 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WN7 1 is one sector of WN7 (Leigh): 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 WN7 1 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 WN7 1 prices, from the sold record
The WN7 1 median stands at £153,100 for 2026, built from 63 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £193,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in WN7 1
Per square metre, WN7 1 homes have averaged around £1,940 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 WN7 1 trades 46% below the country as a whole.
A typical WN7 1 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 | £153,100 | £153,100 | 63 |
| 2025 | £148,500 | £152,051 | 98 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 117 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 127 |
| 2022 | £119,700 | £140,362 | 190 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 211 |
| 2020 | £117,500 | £152,459 | 121 |
| 2019 | £97,000 | £127,144 | 161 |
| 2018 | £85,500 | £113,973 | 171 |
| 2017 | £86,000 | £117,295 | 171 |
| 2016 | £91,500 | £128,009 | 146 |
| 2015 | £76,000 | £107,388 | 133 |
| 2014 | £80,000 | £113,494 | 136 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 107 |
| 2012 | £83,600 | £123,049 | 86 |
| 2011 | £70,000 | £105,673 | 124 |
| 2010 | £90,300 | £141,614 | 150 |
| 2009 | £96,000 | £154,321 | 129 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 202 |
| 2007 | £91,500 | £155,209 | 381 |
| 2006 | £96,500 | £167,512 | 376 |
| 2005 | £72,000 | £128,131 | 207 |
| 2004 | £68,400 | £124,228 | 280 |
| 2003 | £49,000 | £90,270 | 288 |
| 2002 | £33,600 | £63,218 | 268 |
| 2001 | £33,000 | £63,441 | 209 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 225 |
| 1999 | £34,100 | £67,960 | 184 |
| 1998 | £34,400 | £69,439 | 194 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 194 |
| 1996 | £31,800 | £67,065 | 198 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical WN7 1 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £153,100 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 101%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN7 1 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 (+45.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.5%). 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) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in WN7 1
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 63 sales completed in WN7 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 279 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 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 homes rent for around WN7 1
The local authority for WN7 1 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.
Against the £153,100 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
Reading the WN7 1 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WN7, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WN7 1 (Hope Carr): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WN7 1 (Hope Carr)?
Are property prices falling in WN7 1 (Hope Carr)?
Is WN7 1 (Hope Carr) a good place to buy a house?
Are WN7 1 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% 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.
On the market in WN7 today
The live side of the market holds 232 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN7 district, not just WN7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 WN7 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WN prices by size
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%) | — |
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. 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 WN7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WN7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN7 2 | £175,000 | 53 |
| WN7 3 | £217,500 | 42 |
| WN7 4 | £155,000 | 42 |
| WN7 5 | £180,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full WN7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WN7 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN7 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WN7 1.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WN7 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN7 1 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.
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.