Mather Lane, Leigh house prices are built from 129 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2020 and the most recent on 4 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £131,950. Across the 5 years from 2020 to 2025 the median moved +36.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.5%.
Median price paid
£131,950
Change in cash, 2020–2025
+36.2%
Change in real terms
+7.5%
HM Land Registry129 salesLatest sale 4 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Mather Lane, Leigh prices moved
The chart tracks the median Mather Lane, Leigh house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2020 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 5 | £160,000 | £163,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Mather Lane, Leigh is £164,250 in 2022; the lowest is £117,500 in 2020. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £117,500 to £160,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £152,135, so the real change over the whole record is +7.5% — about +1.45% 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: +36.2% in cash against +7.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 73 Mather House | 4 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| Apartment 96 Mather House | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| Apartment 37 Mather House | 22 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £163,500 | £167,054 |
| Apartment 62 Mather House | 24 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| Apartment 24 Mather House | 15 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Apartment 14 Mather House | 15 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £158,500 | £161,946 |
| Apartment 16 Mather House | 2 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Apartment 29 Mather House | 11 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| Apartment 91 Mather House | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Apartment 54 Mather House | 13 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £161,500 | £165,011 |
| Apartment 49 Mather House | 12 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £110,348 |
| Apartment 90 Mather House | 18 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £156,000 | £164,149 |
| Apartment 79 Mather House | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £229,388 |
| Apartment 33 Mather House | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| Apartment 89 Mather House | 1 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £166,000 | £174,672 |
| Apartment 78 Mather House | 8 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| Apartment 23 Mather House | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £163,000 | £171,515 |
| Apartment 92 Mather House | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £176,776 |
| Apartment 38 Mather House | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| Apartment 82 Mather House | 27 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| Apartment 34 Mather House | 28 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| Apartment 26 Mather House | 19 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £193,000 | £208,529 |
| Apartment 43 Mather House | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| Apartment 59 Mather House | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £199,277 |
| Apartment 19 Mather House | 23 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
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 Mather Lane, Leigh values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 73 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £126,950 (2021) | £160,000 (2026) | +4.7% | 0.0% |
| APARTMENT 96 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £224,000 (2021) | £240,000 (2026) | +1.4% | -3.2% |
| APARTMENT 37 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £119,950 (2020) | £163,500 (2025) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| APARTMENT 62 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £116,950 (2020) | £165,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| APARTMENT 24 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £146,950 (2020) | £160,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -3.0% |
| APARTMENT 14 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £104,950 (2020) | £158,500 (2025) | +8.6% | +3.6% |
| APARTMENT 16 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £104,950 (2020) | £160,000 (2025) | +8.8% | +3.8% |
| APARTMENT 29 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £106,950 (2020) | £150,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +2.0% |
| APARTMENT 91 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £86,950 (2020) | £120,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +1.7% |
| APARTMENT 54 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £133,950 (2022) | £161,500 (2025) | +6.4% | +2.1% |
| APARTMENT 49 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £78,950 (2020) | £108,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +1.5% |
| APARTMENT 90 MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane | £128,950 (2021) | £156,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mather Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 129 | 100.0% | £131,950 | £76,950 – £300,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Mather Lane, Leigh
129 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 129 | 100.0% | £131,950 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 94 | 72.9% | £121,950 |
| Existing home | 35 | 27.1% | £162,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -24.7%. 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 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 Mather Lane, 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 £131,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.77% 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 Mather Lane, 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 Mather Lane, Leigh compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mather Lane, Leigh sits below that national figure — -16.2%.
Within Leigh the street ranks 175 of 631 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,950 (+55.3%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £76,950 to £300,000. 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.
Mather Lane, 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
- APARTMENT 62, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 24, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 73, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 96, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 37, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 14, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 16, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 29, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 91, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 54, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 49, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 90, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 33, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 79, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 89, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 78, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 23, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 92, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 38, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 82, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 26, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 43, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 19, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 2, MATHER HOUSE Mather Lane2 sales
Back to Leigh house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Mather Lane, Leigh?
The median price paid in Mather Lane, Leigh across every sale on the register is £131,950. 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 Mather Lane, Leigh?
129 sales are on record for Mather Lane, Leigh, the most recent completing on 4 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Mather Lane, Leigh house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.2% between 2020 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Mather Lane, Leigh house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £164,250, set in 2022. 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 Mather Lane, Leigh?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 4 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, “Mather Lane, 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.