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Parbold market report WN8 6, Skelmersdale
The WN8 6 (Parbold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,292 registered sales in WN8 6 (Skelmersdale) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WN8 6 (Skelmersdale) is £190,000, from 75 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier; the mean is £211,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,960 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,292 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WN8 6 is one sector of WN8 (Skelmersdale): 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 WN8 6 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 6 prices, from the sold record
Across 75 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WN8 6 home went for £190,000. The mean is £211,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
WN8 6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN8 6 sales average about £1,960 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WN8 6 sits 33% below the national market.
A typical WN8 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £176,500 | £180,721 | 160 |
| 2024 | £163,800 | £174,153 | 168 |
| 2023 | £157,500 | £173,054 | 172 |
| 2022 | £154,000 | £180,583 | 238 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 297 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 227 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 217 |
| 2018 | £131,000 | £174,625 | 187 |
| 2017 | £123,800 | £168,851 | 148 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 135 |
| 2015 | £101,500 | £143,420 | 132 |
| 2014 | £93,000 | £131,937 | 105 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 113 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 109 |
| 2011 | £112,500 | £169,832 | 93 |
| 2010 | £111,000 | £174,077 | 108 |
| 2009 | £97,500 | £156,732 | 87 |
| 2008 | £94,000 | £154,086 | 125 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 305 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 330 |
| 2005 | £91,900 | £163,545 | 240 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 418 |
| 2003 | £81,500 | £150,143 | 383 |
| 2002 | £63,500 | £119,475 | 344 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 242 |
| 2000 | £45,100 | £88,509 | 213 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 242 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 203 |
| 1997 | £49,200 | £100,899 | 200 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 156 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 6 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 108%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 3% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 6 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 2003 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−25.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 WN8 6
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 75 sales completed in WN8 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 309 sales a year before the financial crisis and 163 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around WN8 6
WN8 6 falls under West Lancashire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £799 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £190,000 median purchase price, a rent of £799 a month (£9,588 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
Common questions on WN8 6 (Parbold)
Are property prices falling in WN8 6 (Parbold)?
Is WN8 6 (Parbold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN8 6 (Parbold)?
What happens to WN8 6 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 WN8 right now
The live side of the market holds 13 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN8 district, not just WN8 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 WN8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in WN
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WN area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 0 | £224,000 | 36 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WN8 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN8 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN8 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN8 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WN8 6 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.