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Parbold market report WN8, Skelmersdale
The standing WN8 (Parbold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 18,339 HM Land Registry entries for WN8 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WN8 (Skelmersdale) came in at £185,000, out of 220 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £236,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 18,339 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WN8 is the postcode district covering Skelmersdale, Parbold in Skelmersdale. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WN8 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
220 sales were registered in WN8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £185,000. The mean works out at £236,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in WN8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WN8 sales average about £2,110 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WN8 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
WN8'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 220 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 570 |
| 2024 | £188,000 | £199,883 | 528 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 497 |
| 2022 | £162,500 | £190,550 | 631 |
| 2021 | £160,500 | £203,214 | 820 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 568 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 566 |
| 2018 | £139,000 | £185,290 | 527 |
| 2017 | £136,200 | £185,763 | 464 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 467 |
| 2015 | £124,500 | £175,919 | 438 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 405 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 358 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 321 |
| 2011 | £117,500 | £177,380 | 286 |
| 2010 | £124,000 | £194,464 | 330 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 258 |
| 2008 | £109,200 | £179,002 | 370 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 792 |
| 2006 | £101,000 | £175,323 | 906 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 778 |
| 2004 | £96,000 | £174,355 | 974 |
| 2003 | £77,000 | £141,853 | 969 |
| 2002 | £66,000 | £124,178 | 1,021 |
| 2001 | £55,500 | £106,696 | 770 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 748 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 672 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 616 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 574 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 502 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 393 |
In cash terms the typical WN8 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 93%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WN8 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 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £130,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, WN8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £320,000 | 69 | 5,121 |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | 73 | 5,784 |
| Terraced | £130,000 | 69 | 6,750 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 9 | 684 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 474 sales completed in WN8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 870 sales a year before the financial crisis and 489 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.
The shape of the WN8 market
Among the 8 measurable districts of its area, WN8 ranks 7 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around WN8
WN8 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 £185,000 median sold price, £799 a month is £9,588 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: WN8 (Parbold)
Is WN8 (Parbold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WN8 (Parbold)?
Are property prices falling in WN8 (Parbold)?
Where do WN8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
What you could buy in WN8 now
Everything above is what homes in WN8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 13 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the WN8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WN prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WN area. 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%) | — |
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
WN8 ranks 8 of 8 in the WN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside WN8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| WN8 9 | £132,000 | 27 |
How WN8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WN6 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WN4 | £202,500 | +23% |
| WN2 | £190,000 | +27% |
| WN5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WN1 | £185,000 | +16% |
| WN3 | £185,000 | +18% |
| WN8 (this report) | £185,000 | +15% |
| WN7 | £175,500 | +17% |
Selling a home in WN8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WN8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WN8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WN8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WN8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WN8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WN8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WN8 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.
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.