Charles Street, Leigh house prices

Charles Street, Leigh house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £107,500. Across the 20 years from 2004 to 2024 the median moved +121.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +25.4%.

HM Land Registry108 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Charles Street, Leigh house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 Charles Street, Leigh is £214,500 in 2024; the lowest is £32,750 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £32,750 to £214,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,042, so the real change over the whole record is +217.7% — about +4.21% 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: +121.1% in cash against +25.4% 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 Charles Street, 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. Charles Street, Leigh is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

96 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12 freehold — 88.9% 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 £107,500 and the median freehold sale £99,975 — a gap of -7.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 8 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 £107,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.31% 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. Charles Street, Leigh sits below that national figure — -31.7%.

Within Leigh the street ranks 243 of 631 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,950 (+26.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,343 per square metre, across 22 of the 108 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 £18,000 to £267,500. 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.

Charles Street, 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 nearby

• St Helens Road£110,000 median
• Wigan Road£65,000 median
• Holden Road£109,000 median
• Leigh Road£75,000 median
• Hope Street£61,500 median
• Glebe Street£45,000 median
• Oxford Street£55,000 median
• Warrington Road£74,950 median
• Gordon Street£56,000 median
• Firs Lane£56,000 median
• Westleigh Lane£78,000 median
• Manchester Road£79,995 median
• Ledgard Avenue£104,720 median
• Twist Lane£58,500 median
• Guest Street£91,995 median
• The Avenue£116,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 133 Charles Street5 sales
• 37 Charles Street4 sales
• 152 Charles Street4 sales
• 184 Charles Street3 sales
• 286 Charles Street3 sales
• 187 Charles Street3 sales
• 173 Charles Street3 sales
• 154 Charles Street3 sales
• 145 Charles Street3 sales
• 293 Charles Street3 sales
• 172 Charles Street3 sales
• 151 Charles Street3 sales
• 279 Charles Street2 sales
• 189 Charles Street2 sales
• 174 Charles Street2 sales
• 146 Charles Street2 sales
• 276 Charles Street2 sales
• 290 Charles Street2 sales
• 175 Charles Street2 sales
• 176 Charles Street2 sales
• 161 Charles Street2 sales
• 129 Charles Street2 sales
• 300 Charles Street2 sales
• 277 Charles Street2 sales

Back to Leigh house prices.

What is the average house price in Charles Street, Leigh?

The median price paid in Charles Street, Leigh across every sale on the register is £107,500. 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 Charles Street, Leigh?

108 sales are on record for Charles Street, Leigh, the most recent completing on 5 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Charles Street, Leigh house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +121.1% between 2004 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +25.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Charles Street, Leigh house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £214,500, set in 2024. 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 Charles Street, Leigh?

£1,343 per square metre, from the 22 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 5 Mar 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, “Charles Street, 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.