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Parbold market report WN8 9, Skelmersdale
The WN8 9 (Parbold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,778 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WN8 9 (Skelmersdale) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WN8 9 (Skelmersdale) sold for £132,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £175,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,690 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,778 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WN8 9 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 9 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 a home in WN8 9 sells for
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WN8 9 home went for £132,000. The mean is £175,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WN8 9
The last five years of sales put WN8 9 at roughly £1,690 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 9 trades 54% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WN8 9 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £132,000 | £132,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 77 |
| 2024 | £120,000 | £127,585 | 54 |
| 2023 | £115,000 | £126,357 | 71 |
| 2022 | £134,000 | £157,130 | 114 |
| 2021 | £126,200 | £159,785 | 115 |
| 2020 | £90,000 | £116,777 | 73 |
| 2019 | £95,000 | £124,522 | 57 |
| 2018 | £74,200 | £98,910 | 56 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 52 |
| 2016 | £88,000 | £123,113 | 55 |
| 2015 | £75,000 | £105,975 | 60 |
| 2014 | £80,000 | £113,494 | 51 |
| 2013 | £74,000 | £106,479 | 41 |
| 2012 | £79,500 | £117,014 | 42 |
| 2011 | £82,500 | £124,543 | 34 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 42 |
| 2009 | £75,800 | £121,849 | 34 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 72 |
| 2007 | £81,800 | £138,756 | 154 |
| 2006 | £69,000 | £119,775 | 171 |
| 2005 | £68,500 | £121,902 | 158 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 167 |
| 2003 | £38,500 | £70,926 | 167 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 135 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 117 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 102 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 104 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 131 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 92 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 77 |
| 1995 | £27,500 | £59,781 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 9 home went from £27,500 in 1995 to £132,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 121%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 9 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 (+55.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−17.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.5% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in WN8 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in WN8 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Rents around WN8 9
WN8 9 falls under West Lancashire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £799 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £584 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,225 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Lancashire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £132,000 median sold price, £799 a month is £9,588 a year, a gross yield of 7.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How WN8 9 trades
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WN8 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within WN8, this sector trades 29% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WN8 9 (Parbold): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WN8 9 (Parbold)?
Is WN8 9 (Parbold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN8 9 (Parbold)?
Where do WN8 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 WN8 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 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
Real sold prices by size across the WN area, straight 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
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 0 | £224,000 | 36 |
| WN8 6 | £190,000 | 75 |
| WN8 7 | £365,000 | 29 |
| WN8 8 | £160,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full WN8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WN8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WN8 9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WN8 9'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 9.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WN8 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WN8 9 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.