Lightburne Avenue, Leigh house prices are built from 111 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 1 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £87,500. Across the 13 years from 2005 to 2018 the median moved +3.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -24.0%.
Median price paid
£87,500
Change in cash, 2005–2018
+3.9%
Change in real terms
-24.0%
Median per m²
£1,074
HM Land Registry111 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Lightburne Avenue, Leigh prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lightburne Avenue, Leigh house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2018. 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 | 2 | £29,863 | £66,309 |
| 2000s | 5 | £53,000 | £96,550 |
| 2010s | 2 | £89,000 | £125,490 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lightburne Avenue, Leigh is £100,000 in 2018; the lowest is £29,863 in 1996. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £29,863 to £100,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £64,779, so the real change over the whole record is +105.7% — about +3.33% 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: +3.9% in cash against -24.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 41 | 14 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 5 | 31 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 51 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £183,880 | £187,877 |
| 53 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 36 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 47 | 9 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 37 | 23 May 2022 | Terraced | £167,000 | £193,484 |
| 13 | 20 May 2022 | Terraced | £154,500 | £179,002 |
| 29 | 15 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| 51 | 12 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £131,000 | £165,511 |
| 8 | 19 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 30 | 16 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| 31 | 30 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| 37 | 31 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £114,500 | £148,251 |
| 29 | 30 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| 39 | 22 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £121,000 | £158,265 |
| 34 | 19 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £116,500 | £152,379 |
| 15 | 29 May 2019 | Terraced | £112,500 | £147,147 |
| 41 | 14 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £97,500 | £129,939 |
| 20 | 27 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £141,000 | £187,911 |
| 36 | 1 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £100,000 | £133,270 |
| 13 | 14 May 2018 | Terraced | £107,000 | £142,599 |
| 51 | 19 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £92,500 | £123,275 |
| 53 | 10 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £100,000 | £136,100 |
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 Lightburne Avenue, Leigh values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Lightburne Avenue | £39,000 (1997) | £180,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 41 Lightburne Avenue | £39,250 (2001) | £160,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 51 Lightburne Avenue | £40,500 (1998) | £183,880 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 53 Lightburne Avenue | £42,500 (2001) | £190,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 36 Lightburne Avenue | £48,000 (1999) | £175,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 37 Lightburne Avenue | £29,887 (1999) | £167,000 (2022) | +7.8% | +5.2% |
| 13 Lightburne Avenue | £68,950 (2014) | £154,500 (2022) | +10.6% | +7.7% |
| 29 Lightburne Avenue | £19,500 (1997) | £165,000 (2021) | +9.3% | +7.0% |
| 8 Lightburne Avenue | £36,000 (1998) | £150,000 (2021) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| 39 Lightburne Avenue | £87,500 (2009) | £121,000 (2019) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
| 34 Lightburne Avenue | £35,000 (1995) | £116,500 (2019) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 20 Lightburne Avenue | £122,499 (2007) | £141,000 (2018) | +1.3% | -1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lightburne Avenue, Leigh 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 101 | 91.0% | £87,500 | £12,500 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 8.1% | £69,950 | £37,500 – £140,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.9% | £170,000 | £170,000 – £170,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lightburne Avenue, Leigh
56 of the sales on record are leasehold and 55 freehold — 50.5% 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 £92,500 and the median freehold sale £80,000 — a gap of -13.5%. 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 | 56 | 50.5% | £92,500 |
| Freehold | 55 | 49.5% | £80,000 |
A further 3 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 Lightburne Avenue, Leigh
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 741 | 0.5% |
| B | 16,595 | 11.0% |
| C | 47,691 | 31.6% |
| D | 61,266 | 40.6% |
| E | 19,483 | 12.9% |
| F | 4,020 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,114 | 0.7% |
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 £87,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.20% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Lightburne Avenue, Leigh
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,111 |
| The Westleigh School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 976 |
| St Thomas' CofE Primary School, Leigh | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 395 |
| St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 375 |
| Leigh CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 350 |
| Leigh St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 331 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 300 |
| Bedford Hall Methodist Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 255 |
| Leigh Westleigh Methodist Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 234 |
| Twelve Apostles Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 213 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hag Fold Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Atherton Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Daisy Hill Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Hindley Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
Section 09
How Lightburne Avenue, Leigh compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lightburne Avenue, Leigh sits below that national figure — -44.4%.
Within Leigh the street ranks 318 of 631 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,950 (+3.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,074 per square metre, across 32 of the 111 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 £12,500 to £190,000. 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.
Lightburne Avenue, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- 7 Lightburne Avenue6 sales
- 11 Lightburne Avenue6 sales
- 15 Lightburne Avenue5 sales
- 41 Lightburne Avenue5 sales
- 51 Lightburne Avenue5 sales
- 53 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 36 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 37 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 8 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 34 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 12 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 9 Lightburne Avenue4 sales
- 13 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 29 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 14 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 45 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 28 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 3 Lightburne Avenue3 sales
- 39 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
- 20 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
- 21 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
- 18 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
- 55 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
- 33 Lightburne Avenue2 sales
Back to Leigh house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lightburne Avenue, Leigh?
The median price paid in Lightburne Avenue, Leigh across every sale on the register is £87,500. 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 Lightburne Avenue, Leigh?
111 sales are on record for Lightburne Avenue, Leigh, the most recent completing on 1 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lightburne Avenue, Leigh house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +3.9% between 2005 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -24.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lightburne Avenue, Leigh house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £100,000, set in 2018. 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 Lightburne Avenue, Leigh?
£1,074 per square metre, from the 32 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 1 Apr 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, “Lightburne Avenue, 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.