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Hope Carr market report WN7 3, Leigh

The standing WN7 3 (Hope Carr) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,672 registered sales in WN7 3 (Leigh) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: a typical WN7 3 (Leigh) home changed hands for £217,500 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £233,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,672 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

WN7 3 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.

The going rate for a home in WN7 3

In the WN7 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £217,500, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £233,300, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

House prices per square metre in WN7 3

A square metre of WN7 3 home has cost about £2,550 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.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN7 3 trades 24% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical WN7 3 home went from £52,800 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 89%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

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.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in WN7 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 130 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 WN7 3 is

This is a thin market: 42 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. Against the WN7 district median, WN7 3 sits 24% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

Rents around WN7 3

For renting purposes WN7 3 sits in Wigan. The ONS average private rent there is £741 a month (May 2026). 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.

Set against the £217,500 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.

WN7 3 (Hope Carr): the questions that come up

Are WN7 3 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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 is for sale in WN7 right now

The price of an extra bedroom in WN

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the WN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

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:

Zoom out to the full WN7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN7 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in WN7 3? Price it on the evidence

Take it further

Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WN7 3. Free, with a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every WN7 3 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.