Leigh house prices

Leigh house prices are built from 24,933 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £84,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +63.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +17.2%.

HM Land Registry24,933 sales6,015 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Leigh 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Leigh is £183,000 in 2025; the lowest is £35,063 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £36,000 to £180,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £79,937, so the real change over the whole record is +125.2% — about +2.65% 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: +63.6% in cash against +17.2% 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.

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.

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 Leigh values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leigh is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,898 certificates cover Leigh, and their median floor area is 72 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -5.3%. 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.

15,087 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9,846 freehold — 60.5% 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 £77,500 and the median freehold sale £98,000 — a gap of +26.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +48.8%. 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 2,330 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wigan, 43.1% of 150,910 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wigan at £744 a month as of Jun 2026 — £540 for a one-bedroom home and £835 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £84,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.51% 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 WN7, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.

Against the 329,330 residents the 2021 census counted in Wigan, that is 0.00 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.

The 2021 census counted 329,330 residents in Wigan across 143,105 households. 66.8% of those households own their home and 32.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

18 state and independent schools have a WN7 postcode: 16 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leigh sits below that national figure — -46.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,084 per square metre, across 6,015 of the 24,933 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 £2,500 to £994,945. 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.

Leigh sits in Wigan, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wigan at 5.9 times median local earnings of £33,669 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.

Streets in Leigh

• St Helens Road503 sales
• Wigan Road402 sales
• Holden Road351 sales
• Leigh Road337 sales
• Hope Street328 sales
• Glebe Street313 sales
• Oxford Street309 sales
• Warrington Road279 sales
• Gordon Street271 sales
• Firs Lane257 sales
• Westleigh Lane239 sales
• Manchester Road233 sales
• Ledgard Avenue214 sales
• Twist Lane205 sales
• Guest Street204 sales
• The Avenue190 sales
• Selwyn Street184 sales
• Orchard Lane170 sales
• Laxey Crescent167 sales
• Melrose Avenue163 sales
• Ennerdale Road150 sales
• Brentwood Grove148 sales
• Priestfields145 sales
• Sydney Avenue142 sales
• Windermere Road141 sales
• Henrietta Street136 sales
• Etherstone Street135 sales
• Nel Pan Lane133 sales
• Bexhill Drive132 sales
• Shelley Street131 sales
• Mather Lane129 sales
• Clough House Drive128 sales
• Waterview Park126 sales
• Corner Lane125 sales
• Sovereign Fold Road117 sales
• Rydal Street113 sales
• Lightburne Avenue111 sales
• Bedford Square108 sales
• Charles Street108 sales
• Redfield Croft108 sales
• Lingard Street106 sales
• Battersby Street103 sales
• Runfield Close103 sales
• Stott Wharf103 sales
• Pendle Court102 sales
• Drummond Way100 sales
• Chapel Street99 sales
• Padiham Close99 sales
• Telford Crescent97 sales
• Hooten Lane96 sales
• Severn Street94 sales
• Chestnut Drive South93 sales
• Hulme Gardens93 sales
• Thames Avenue93 sales
• Kirkhall Lane92 sales
• Walmesley Road92 sales
• Carders Close89 sales
• Wateredge Close89 sales
• Green Lane88 sales
• Buck Street87 sales

Postcode districts covering Leigh

• WN7£84,950 median
• TN11£345,000 median

What is the average house price in Leigh?

The median price paid in Leigh across every sale on the register is £84,950. 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 Leigh?

24,933 sales are on record for Leigh, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Leigh house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +63.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +17.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Leigh house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £183,000, 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 Leigh?

£1,084 per square metre, from the 6,015 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 26 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, “Leigh 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.