PR5 house prices are built from 22,810 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £119,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +29.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.2%.
Median price paid
£119,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+29.5%
Change in real terms
-7.2%
Median per m²
£2,712
HM Land Registry22,810 sales178 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026
Section 01
How PR5 prices moved
The chart tracks the median PR5 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £48,500 | £107,693 |
| 2000s | 10 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 10 | £135,000 | £190,350 |
| 2020s | 7 | £183,000 | £186,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for PR5 is £200,000 in 2025; the lowest is £46,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £46,000 to £180,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £102,142, so the real change over the whole record is +76.2% — about +1.84% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +29.5% in cash against -7.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Windsor Road | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £172,000 | £172,000 |
| 22 Daub Hall Lane | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £332,000 | £332,000 |
| 4 Brindle Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 63 Longbrook Avenue | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 26 Dean Street | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £117,750 | £117,750 |
| 332 Gregson Lane | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 95 Todd Lane North | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 24 Church Terrace | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 53 Cuerdale Lane | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £875,000 | £875,000 |
| 29 Ambledene | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 101 Brampton Drive | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 17 Irongate | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 42 Windsor Road | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 25 Lostock View | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 11 Kittlingbourne Brow | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| 90 Watkin Lane | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £136,000 | £136,000 |
| 6 Bluebell Way | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 4 Winster Close | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £262,000 | £262,000 |
| 50 Glendale Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 6 Brindle Court | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 3 St Judes Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 4 Badgers Way | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £332,000 | £332,000 |
| 8 Warwick Road | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £146,000 | £146,000 |
| 19 St Judes Avenue | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £177,000 | £177,000 |
| 19 Edward Street | 20 May 2026 | Terraced | £154,000 | £154,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to PR5 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Windsor Road | £43,000 (1995) | £172,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 5 the Drive | £49,000 (1996) | £470,000 (2026) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| 22 Daub Hall Lane | £60,000 (2002) | £332,000 (2026) | +7.4% | +4.5% |
| 4 Brindle Close | £85,000 (2001) | £270,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 26 Dean Street | £80,000 (2013) | £117,750 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 63 Longbrook Avenue | £41,000 (1998) | £145,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 332 Gregson Lane | £90,000 (2011) | £165,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 12 Hillpark Avenue | £60,000 (2000) | £225,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 24 Church Terrace | £36,000 (1996) | £110,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 95 Todd Lane North | £47,500 (1997) | £145,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 4 the Close | £320,000 (2007) | £240,000 (2026) | -1.5% | -4.3% |
| 29 Ambledene | £83,995 (2000) | £215,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. PR5 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 9,907 | 43.4% | £120,000 | £4,500 – £660,000 |
| Terraced | 6,102 | 26.8% | £90,000 | £9,000 – £650,000 |
| Detached | 5,961 | 26.1% | £180,000 | £12,000 – £1,600,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 840 | 3.7% | £98,000 | £10,200 – £550,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in PR5
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,339 certificates cover PR5, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 64 m² | about 689 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 95 m² | about 1,023 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 17.7% | 768 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.9% | 211 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in PR5
4,083 of the sales on record are leasehold and 18,727 freehold — 17.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £114,450 and the median freehold sale £120,000 — a gap of +4.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 4,083 | 17.9% | £114,450 |
| Freehold | 18,727 | 82.1% | £120,000 |
| New build | 2,603 | 11.4% | £140,950 |
| Existing home | 20,207 | 88.6% | £116,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +21.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 1,355 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in PR5
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chorley, 49.1% of 53,253 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 472 | 0.9% |
| B | 7,878 | 14.8% |
| C | 17,819 | 33.5% |
| D | 19,242 | 36.1% |
| E | 5,947 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,439 | 2.7% |
| G | 456 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chorley at £785 a month as of Jun 2026 — £589 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £119,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.92% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of PR5, 124 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 44 violent, 5 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 1.05 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around PR5
The 2021 census counted 117,732 residents in Chorley across 50,135 households. 72.8% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a PR5 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 772 |
| Lostock Hall Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 759 |
| Walton-Le-Dale High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 688 |
| Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 446 |
| Lostock Hall Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 422 |
| Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 341 |
| St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 251 |
| Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 228 |
| St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 195 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bamber Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Leyland Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Pleasington Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How PR5 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. PR5 sits below that national figure — -24.4%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,712 per square metre, across 178 of the 22,810 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £4,500 to £1,600,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
PR5 sits in Chorley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chorley at 6.3 times median local earnings of £34,980 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside PR5
The closest districts
- PR14.1 km · £87,000
- PR254.8 km · £120,000
- PR26.2 km · £112,000
- PR267.1 km · £150,000
- PR67.7 km · £124,950
- PR79.2 km · £133,000
- BB210.3 km · £82,000
- PR411.8 km · £165,000
This district mostly covers Preston.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in PR5?
The median price paid in PR5 across every sale on the register is £119,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in PR5?
22,810 sales are on record for PR5, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have PR5 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +29.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were PR5 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £200,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in PR5?
£2,712 per square metre, from the 178 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “PR5 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.