Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows house prices

Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows house prices are built from 95 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,950.

HM Land Registry95 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 to 2007. 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 Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows is £122,000 in 2007; the lowest is £95,600 in 2004. Across the full 4-year record the cash median has moved from £95,600 to £122,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £177,363, so the real change over the whole record is +19.6% — about +6.14% 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.

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 Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 86 freehold — 9.5% 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 £99,950 and the median freehold sale £113,725 — a gap of +13.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.4%. 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across St. Helens, 45.4% of 92,985 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% 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 St. Helens at £798 a month as of Jun 2026 — £587 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £109,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.71% 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 WA12, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 70 violent, 10 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 18 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 183,248 residents the 2021 census counted in St. Helens, that is 0.98 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 183,248 residents in St. Helens across 81,013 households. 65.0% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

8 state and independent schools have a WA12 postcode: 7 primary, 1 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. Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows sits below that national figure — -30.2%.

Within Newton-le-willows the street ranks 139 of 291 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £114,995 (-4.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,685 per square metre, across 31 of the 95 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 £74,250 to £230,000. 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.

Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows sits in St. Helens, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in St. Helens at 5.7 times median local earnings of £33,379 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

• Wargrave Road£70,000 median
• Highmarsh Crescent£109,975 median
• Mercer Street£79,475 median
• Crow Lane East£113,000 median
• Vulcan Park Way£167,500 median
• Birley Street£99,950 median
• Crow Lane West£80,125 median
• Park Road South£137,750 median
• The Parchments£97,950 median
• Borron Road£87,000 median
• Makerfield Drive£114,000 median
• High Street£110,000 median
• Ashton Road£167,700 median
• Banastre Drive£117,250 median
• Wayfarers Drive£138,000 median
• Cole Avenue£140,950 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 53 Cooper Avenue6 sales
• 33 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 21 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 6 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 37 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 27 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 45 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 30 Cooper Avenue4 sales
• 38 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 55 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 22 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 34 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 43 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 17 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 18 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 20 Cooper Avenue3 sales
• 51 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 19 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 23 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 47 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 32 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 40 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 12 Cooper Avenue2 sales
• 36 Cooper Avenue2 sales

Back to Newton-le-willows house prices.

What is the average house price in Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows?

The median price paid in Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows across every sale on the register is £109,950. 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 Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows?

95 sales are on record for Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £122,000, set in 2007. 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 Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows?

£1,685 per square metre, from the 31 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 29 May 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, “Cooper Avenue, Newton-le-willows 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.