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Hope Carr market report WN7 2, Leigh
The WN7 2 (Hope Carr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,395 HM Land Registry entries for WN7 2 (Leigh), 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: a typical WN7 2 (Leigh) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 53 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £198,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,395 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WN7 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WN7 (Leigh). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WN7 2 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 WN7 2
The 2026 median for WN7 2 is £175,000, taken from 53 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £198,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WN7 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN7 2 sales average about £2,320 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WN7 2 39% below the country at large.
WN7 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 132 |
| 2024 | £185,500 | £197,225 | 136 |
| 2023 | £169,500 | £186,239 | 129 |
| 2022 | £171,000 | £200,517 | 176 |
| 2021 | £162,000 | £205,113 | 237 |
| 2020 | £143,000 | £185,545 | 263 |
| 2019 | £137,000 | £179,574 | 247 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 172 |
| 2017 | £124,000 | £169,124 | 208 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 165 |
| 2015 | £106,000 | £149,778 | 117 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 109 |
| 2013 | £87,500 | £125,904 | 92 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 81 |
| 2011 | £88,000 | £132,846 | 94 |
| 2010 | £92,000 | £144,280 | 89 |
| 2009 | £92,000 | £147,891 | 85 |
| 2008 | £82,000 | £134,415 | 103 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 239 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 271 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 260 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 267 |
| 2003 | £59,500 | £109,613 | 204 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 226 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 159 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 179 |
| 1999 | £52,500 | £104,630 | 191 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 206 |
| 1997 | £45,200 | £92,696 | 216 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 184 |
| 1995 | £37,600 | £81,737 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical WN7 2 home went from £37,600 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 114%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN7 2 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 (+51.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−25.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WN7 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.4% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WN7 2 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 226 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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 WN7 2 market
This is a thin market: 53 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.
What homes rent for around WN7 2
The local authority for WN7 2 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.
Set against the £175,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
What people ask about WN7 2 (Hope Carr)
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Will WN7 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
On the market in WN7 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 232 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN7 district, not just WN7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 WN7 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WN7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN7 1 | £153,100 | 63 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WN7 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN7 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN7 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN7 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN7 2 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.