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Parbold market report WN8 7, Skelmersdale
The WN8 7 (Parbold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,189 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WN8 7 (Skelmersdale) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in WN8 7 (Skelmersdale) sold for £400,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, up 39% on five years earlier. The mean was £458,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,189 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WN8 7 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 7 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 buyers actually paid in WN8 7
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WN8 7 home went for £400,000. The mean is £458,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WN8 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN8 7 sales average about £3,310 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 7 sits 40% above the national market.
WN8 7's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 46 |
| 2024 | £332,000 | £352,984 | 67 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 59 |
| 2022 | £322,800 | £378,520 | 56 |
| 2021 | £287,500 | £364,012 | 80 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 61 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 65 |
| 2018 | £262,500 | £349,917 | 84 |
| 2017 | £242,100 | £330,200 | 78 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 57 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 63 |
| 2014 | £204,000 | £289,410 | 78 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 66 |
| 2012 | £248,000 | £365,025 | 54 |
| 2011 | £232,500 | £350,986 | 46 |
| 2010 | £218,000 | £341,880 | 53 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 29 |
| 2008 | £222,500 | £364,724 | 43 |
| 2007 | £253,000 | £429,158 | 72 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 101 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 61 |
| 2004 | £173,800 | £315,655 | 74 |
| 2003 | £164,500 | £303,049 | 78 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 103 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 88 |
| 2000 | £83,000 | £162,888 | 87 |
| 1999 | £77,200 | £153,856 | 86 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 83 |
| 1997 | £68,600 | £140,685 | 88 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 81 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 207%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 7 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 (+43.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WN8 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.8% | +1.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +6.4% | +1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 WN8 7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in WN8 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the WN8 7 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. Within WN8, this sector trades 116% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around WN8 7
For renting purposes WN8 7 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 £400,000 median purchase price, a rent of £799 a month (£9,588 a year) works out at a 2.4% 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 7 (Parbold)
How much did a house sell for in WN8 7 (Parbold)?
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Are WN8 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WN8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 11 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WN8 district, not just WN8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
9% 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.
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 →
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.
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 | £185,000 | £215,000 (+16%) | £265,000 (+23%) | £328,000 (+24%) | £405,000 (+23%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £175,000 (+6%) | £195,000 (+11%) | £235,000 (+21%) | £290,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £126,750 | £131,000 (+3%) | £135,000 (+3%) | £175,000 (+30%) | £201,250 (+15%) |
| Flat | £81,500 | £107,000 (+31%) | £138,250 (+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.
WN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WN8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WN8, one report each:
Zoom out to the full WN8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WN8 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WN8 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WN8 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WN8 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN8 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN8 7 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.
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.