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Parbold market report WN8 0, Skelmersdale
The standing WN8 0 (Parbold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,967 HM Land Registry entries for WN8 0 (Skelmersdale), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN8 0 (Skelmersdale) came in at £224,000, out of 36 registered, down 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £235,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,470 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,967 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WN8 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WN8 (Skelmersdale). 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 WN8 0 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 WN8 0 prices, from the sold record
In the WN8 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £224,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £235,100, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WN8 0
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WN8 0 costs about £2,470 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN8 0 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
WN8 0'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £224,000 | £224,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £233,500 | £239,084 | 112 |
| 2024 | £237,800 | £252,830 | 84 |
| 2023 | £229,800 | £252,494 | 83 |
| 2022 | £247,400 | £290,105 | 110 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 139 |
| 2020 | £209,800 | £272,220 | 97 |
| 2019 | £179,000 | £234,626 | 86 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 73 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 85 |
| 2016 | £193,000 | £270,009 | 123 |
| 2015 | £182,000 | £257,166 | 87 |
| 2014 | £146,800 | £208,261 | 74 |
| 2013 | £164,500 | £236,699 | 60 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 48 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 45 |
| 2010 | £155,500 | £243,864 | 62 |
| 2009 | £158,800 | £255,272 | 56 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 40 |
| 2007 | £172,100 | £291,930 | 112 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 111 |
| 2005 | £152,000 | £270,499 | 80 |
| 2004 | £152,000 | £276,062 | 126 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 126 |
| 2002 | £106,800 | £200,943 | 185 |
| 2001 | £85,200 | £163,793 | 146 |
| 2000 | £89,900 | £176,429 | 170 |
| 1999 | £65,200 | £129,940 | 106 |
| 1998 | £58,200 | £117,481 | 80 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 81 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 88 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 0 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £224,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 91%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 0 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 2000 (+37.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WN8 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 36 WN8 0 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 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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 WN8 0 is
This is a thin market: 36 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WN8 district median, WN8 0 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around WN8 0
For renting purposes WN8 0 sits in West Lancashire. The ONS average private rent there is £799 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £584 a month here against £1,225 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, West Lancashire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £224,000 median purchase price, a rent of £799 a month (£9,588 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
Asked and answered: WN8 0 (Parbold)
Are property prices falling in WN8 0 (Parbold)?
Is WN8 0 (Parbold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN8 0 (Parbold)?
Where do WN8 0 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
WN8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN8 district, not just WN8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WN8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WN prices by size
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the WN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WN8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WN8 6 | £190,000 | 75 |
| WN8 7 | £365,000 | 29 |
| WN8 8 | £160,000 | 53 |
| WN8 9 | £132,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full WN8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WN8 0? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN8 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN8 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN8 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WN8 0.
Go deeper
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See every individual WN8 0 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.