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Hope Carr market report WN7 5, Leigh
The WN7 5 (Hope Carr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,786 registered sales in WN7 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WN7 5 (Leigh) sold for £180,500 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier. The mean was £184,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,786 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WN7 5 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 5 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 5 prices, from the sold record
In the WN7 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £180,500, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £184,600, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WN7 5
Per square metre, WN7 5 homes have averaged around £2,250 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WN7 5 runs 37% below it.
WN7 5'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,500 | £180,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 152 |
| 2024 | £173,000 | £183,935 | 201 |
| 2023 | £178,000 | £195,579 | 211 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 193 |
| 2021 | £139,000 | £175,992 | 192 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 167 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 158 |
| 2018 | £97,500 | £129,969 | 133 |
| 2017 | £93,800 | £127,934 | 154 |
| 2016 | £81,500 | £114,019 | 137 |
| 2015 | £75,000 | £105,975 | 126 |
| 2014 | £82,000 | £116,331 | 135 |
| 2013 | £74,000 | £106,479 | 91 |
| 2012 | £74,200 | £109,213 | 80 |
| 2011 | £74,000 | £111,712 | 94 |
| 2010 | £70,000 | £109,778 | 81 |
| 2009 | £71,000 | £114,133 | 61 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 96 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 233 |
| 2006 | £86,000 | £149,285 | 209 |
| 2005 | £73,000 | £129,911 | 174 |
| 2004 | £60,900 | £110,606 | 236 |
| 2003 | £47,500 | £87,507 | 255 |
| 2002 | £38,400 | £72,249 | 243 |
| 2001 | £36,200 | £69,593 | 211 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 127 |
| 1999 | £31,000 | £61,781 | 121 |
| 1998 | £32,800 | £66,209 | 121 |
| 1997 | £33,500 | £68,702 | 131 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 119 |
| 1995 | £33,400 | £72,606 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical WN7 5 home went from £33,400 in 1995 to £180,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 149%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN7 5 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.4% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +8.3% | +4.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 46 WN7 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 211 sales a year before the financial crisis and 161 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.
What tenants pay around WN7 5
WN7 5 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £180,500 median sold price, £741 a month is £8,892 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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 kind of market WN7 5 is
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN7 5 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.
Asked and answered: WN7 5 (Hope Carr)
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Will WN7 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and up 3% 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.
WN7's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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.
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. 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 1 | £153,100 | 63 |
| WN7 2 | £175,000 | 53 |
| WN7 3 | £217,500 | 42 |
| WN7 4 | £155,000 | 42 |
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 5: 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 5'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.
Estate agents working WN7 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WN7 5.
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The live map plots every individual WN7 5 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.