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Hope Carr market report WN7, Leigh
The WN7 (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: 25,126 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN7 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN7 (Leigh) came in at £175,500, out of 246 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £197,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,230 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 25,126 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district WN7 covering Leigh, Hope Carr, Landside sits in Leigh. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WN7 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 prices, from the sold record
In the WN7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £175,500, from 246 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £197,000, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WN7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN7 costs about £2,230 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN7 sits 38% below the national market.
A typical WN7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,500 | £175,500 | 246 |
| 2025 | £183,000 | £187,376 | 655 |
| 2024 | £172,700 | £183,616 | 708 |
| 2023 | £163,800 | £179,976 | 710 |
| 2022 | £164,000 | £192,309 | 894 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 1,032 |
| 2020 | £147,800 | £191,774 | 800 |
| 2019 | £127,000 | £166,467 | 862 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 811 |
| 2017 | £113,500 | £154,803 | 835 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 752 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 708 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 595 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 441 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 390 |
| 2011 | £75,500 | £113,976 | 504 |
| 2010 | £87,500 | £137,223 | 492 |
| 2009 | £91,000 | £146,283 | 429 |
| 2008 | £92,000 | £150,807 | 653 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 1,249 |
| 2006 | £103,000 | £178,795 | 1,275 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 959 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 1,209 |
| 2003 | £52,500 | £96,718 | 1,154 |
| 2002 | £40,200 | £75,636 | 1,190 |
| 2001 | £37,500 | £72,092 | 891 |
| 2000 | £37,500 | £73,594 | 803 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 820 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 817 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 867 |
| 1996 | £35,300 | £74,446 | 788 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 587 |
In cash terms the typical WN7 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £175,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN7 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 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £107,800 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, WN7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £320,000 | 43 | 3,402 |
| Semi-detached | £202,000 | 84 | 8,511 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 99 | 11,520 |
| Flats | £107,800 | 20 | 1,693 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WN7
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 520 WN7 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 1,091 sales a year before the financial crisis and 643 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 kind of market WN7 is
WN7 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What tenants pay around WN7
WN7 falls under Wigan, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £175,500 median purchase price, a rent of £741 a month (£8,892 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
WN7 (Hope Carr): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WN7 (Hope Carr)?
Are property prices falling in WN7 (Hope Carr)?
Is WN7 (Hope Carr) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WN7 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WN7 today
Everything above is what homes in WN7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 232 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the WN7 median sold price.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
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%) | — |
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
WN7 ranks 5 of 8 in the WN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
WN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WN7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| WN7 5 | £180,500 | 46 |
How WN7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WN4 | £202,500 | +23% |
| WN2 | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN1 | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 (this report) | £175,500 | +17% |
Thinking of selling in WN7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN7'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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WN7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WN7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.