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Parbold market report WN8 8, Skelmersdale
The standing WN8 8 (Parbold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,119 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN8 8 (Skelmersdale) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WN8 8 (Skelmersdale) home changed hands for £160,000 in 2026 (median of 53 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier), with the mean at £189,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,119 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WN8 8 is a single group of streets within WN8 (Skelmersdale), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WN8 8 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.
The going rate for a home in WN8 8
Across 53 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WN8 8 home went for £160,000. The mean is £189,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in WN8 8
The last five years of sales put WN8 8 at roughly £1,850 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN8 8 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
WN8 8'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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £197,000 | £201,711 | 177 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 155 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 112 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 113 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 189 |
| 2020 | £140,500 | £182,302 | 110 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 141 |
| 2018 | £113,000 | £150,631 | 127 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 101 |
| 2016 | £107,000 | £149,694 | 97 |
| 2015 | £88,000 | £124,344 | 96 |
| 2014 | £86,500 | £122,715 | 97 |
| 2013 | £84,200 | £121,155 | 78 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 68 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 68 |
| 2010 | £87,000 | £136,438 | 65 |
| 2009 | £94,500 | £151,910 | 52 |
| 2008 | £103,800 | £170,150 | 90 |
| 2007 | £98,000 | £166,235 | 149 |
| 2006 | £97,000 | £168,380 | 193 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 239 |
| 2004 | £81,500 | £148,020 | 189 |
| 2003 | £67,000 | £123,430 | 215 |
| 2002 | £55,100 | £103,670 | 254 |
| 2001 | £45,100 | £86,702 | 177 |
| 2000 | £44,700 | £87,724 | 176 |
| 1999 | £42,200 | £84,102 | 134 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 119 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 113 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 100 |
| 1995 | £36,700 | £79,780 | 72 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 8 home went from £36,700 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 101%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 8 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 2025 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.8%). 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) | −18.8% | −20.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
WN8 8 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
What homes rent for around WN8 8
The local authority for WN8 8 is West Lancashire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £799 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £584 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,225, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Lancashire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£799 a month is £9,588 a year, which against the £160,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market WN8 8 is
This is a thin market: 53 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 8 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WN8 8 (Parbold): the questions that come up
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Will WN8 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in WN8 today
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 8: 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WN area. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WN area districts
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 6 | £190,000 | 75 |
| WN8 7 | £365,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WN8 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN8 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WN8 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN8 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WN8 8 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.