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Hope Carr market report WN7 4, Leigh
The WN7 4 (Hope Carr) 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: 4,461 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN7 4 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WN7 4 (Leigh) sold for £155,000 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £177,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,461 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WN7 4 is a single group of streets within WN7 (Leigh), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WN7 4 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 a home in WN7 4 sells for
In the WN7 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £155,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £177,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WN7 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN7 4 costs about £2,030 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WN7 4 46% below the national figure.
WN7 4's median sold price, 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 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £167,000 | £170,993 | 127 |
| 2024 | £136,000 | £144,596 | 115 |
| 2023 | £129,500 | £142,289 | 122 |
| 2022 | £140,500 | £164,752 | 132 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 201 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 129 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 159 |
| 2018 | £112,000 | £149,298 | 182 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 159 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 159 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 159 |
| 2014 | £82,800 | £117,466 | 96 |
| 2013 | £72,000 | £103,601 | 53 |
| 2012 | £75,000 | £110,391 | 59 |
| 2011 | £65,000 | £98,125 | 125 |
| 2010 | £79,500 | £124,676 | 66 |
| 2009 | £69,500 | £111,722 | 66 |
| 2008 | £94,200 | £154,414 | 152 |
| 2007 | £83,700 | £141,979 | 204 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 168 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 145 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 209 |
| 2003 | £47,000 | £86,585 | 230 |
| 2002 | £36,400 | £68,486 | 234 |
| 2001 | £33,000 | £63,441 | 161 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 138 |
| 1999 | £31,500 | £62,778 | 156 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 114 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 150 |
| 1996 | £32,000 | £67,487 | 139 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical WN7 4 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 138%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN7 4 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 2015 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−26.2%). 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) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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 WN7 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
WN7 4 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
The rental side of WN7 4
The local authority for WN7 4 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £538 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,137 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £155,000 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
Reading the WN7 4 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN7 4 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. Against the WN7 district median, WN7 4 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WN7 4 (Hope Carr): the questions that come up
Is WN7 4 (Hope Carr) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN7 4 (Hope Carr)?
Are property prices falling in WN7 4 (Hope Carr)?
What happens to WN7 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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
Turning to what is actually available: 232 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN7 district, not just WN7 4: 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
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WN7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WN7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN7 1 | £153,100 | 63 |
| WN7 2 | £175,000 | 53 |
| WN7 3 | £217,500 | 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.
Selling in WN7 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN7 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN7 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN7 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual WN7 4 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.