Higher Walton Road, Preston house prices are built from 282 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,750. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +67.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.2%.
Median price paid
£122,750
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+67.3%
Change in real terms
+21.2%
Median per m²
£1,015
HM Land Registry282 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Higher Walton Road, Preston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Higher Walton Road, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £45,000 | £99,921 |
| 2000s | 10 | £109,500 | £199,477 |
| 2010s | 9 | £145,000 | £204,450 |
| 2020s | 6 | £166,500 | £170,120 |
The highest yearly median on record for Higher Walton Road, Preston is £215,000 in 2023; the lowest is £27,500 in 1998. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £57,450 to £204,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £127,566, so the real change over the whole record is +63.8% — about +1.66% 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: +67.3% in cash against +21.2% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £153,000 | £153,000 |
| 337 | 26 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £105,000 | £105,000 |
| 143 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £186,000 | £190,043 |
| 308 | 24 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 336 | 8 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 59 | 25 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 95 | 26 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £199,000 | £203,326 |
| 24 | 14 Feb 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 327 | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £159,950 | £168,306 |
| 86 | 8 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 288 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £178,500 | £187,825 |
| 340a | 3 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 334 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £187,500 | £197,295 |
| 19 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £248,000 | £267,954 |
| Flat 3 Charlton Beeches | 27 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| 51 | 4 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £138,000 | £149,103 |
| 40 | 29 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 207 | 1 Sep 2023 | Detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 13 | 14 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 73 | 23 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £127,500 | £137,759 |
| 9 | 14 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £286,750 | £309,822 |
| 324 | 2 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| 209 | 12 May 2023 | Detached | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 343 | 13 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £121,000 | £130,736 |
| 344 | 16 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £167,000 | £193,484 |
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 Higher Walton Road, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 Higher Walton Road | £32,000 (2001) | £153,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 337 Higher Walton Road | £103,000 (2013) | £105,000 (2026) | +0.1% | -2.7% |
| 143 Higher Walton Road | £59,999 (2000) | £186,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 308 Higher Walton Road | £179,000 (2003) | £320,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 336 Higher Walton Road | £133,000 (2005) | £210,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| 59 Higher Walton Road | £73,000 (2012) | £170,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.6% |
| 95 Higher Walton Road | £17,000 (1996) | £199,000 (2025) | +8.9% | +6.1% |
| 327 Higher Walton Road | £65,000 (2009) | £159,950 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.1% |
| 86 Higher Walton Road | £59,950 (1995) | £295,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +3.0% |
| 288 Higher Walton Road | £32,000 (1997) | £178,500 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 340A Higher Walton Road | £50,000 (1999) | £250,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 334 Higher Walton Road | £118,999 (2006) | £187,500 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Higher Walton Road, Preston 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 | 160 | 56.7% | £107,000 | £17,000 – £255,000 |
| Semi-detached | 92 | 32.6% | £143,000 | £22,500 – £320,000 |
| Detached | 28 | 9.9% | £190,000 | £40,000 – £500,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.7% | £85,000 | £85,000 – £95,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Higher Walton Road, Preston
30 of the sales on record are leasehold and 252 freehold — 10.6% 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 £96,000 and the median freehold sale £125,000 — a gap of +30.2%. 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 | 30 | 10.6% | £96,000 |
| Freehold | 252 | 89.4% | £125,000 |
A further 11 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 Higher Walton Road, Preston
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chorley, 49.1% of 53,253 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 472 | 0.9% |
| B | 7,878 | 14.8% |
| C | 17,819 | 33.5% |
| D | 19,242 | 36.1% |
| E | 5,947 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,439 | 2.7% |
| G | 456 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chorley at £785 a month as of Jun 2026 — £589 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £122,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.67% 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 PR5, 124 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 44 violent, 5 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 1.05 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 Higher Walton Road, Preston
The 2021 census counted 117,732 residents in Chorley across 50,135 households. 72.8% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a PR5 postcode: 15 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 772 |
| Lostock Hall Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 759 |
| Walton-Le-Dale High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 688 |
| Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 446 |
| Lostock Hall Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 422 |
| Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 341 |
| St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 251 |
| Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 228 |
| St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 195 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bamber Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Leyland Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Pleasington Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Higher Walton Road, Preston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Higher Walton Road, Preston sits below that national figure — -22.1%.
Within Preston the street ranks 2381 of 3749 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £125,000 (-1.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,015 per square metre, across 2 of the 282 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 £17,000 to £500,000. 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.
Higher Walton Road, Preston sits in Chorley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chorley at 6.3 times median local earnings of £34,980 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
- Holland House Road£109,975 median
- Brownedge Road£120,500 median
- Brindle Road£145,000 median
- Hampshire Road£119,975 median
- Gregson Lane£148,000 median
- Hoghton Lane£172,750 median
- Queensway£115,000 median
- Windsor Road£119,225 median
- Chorley Road£125,000 median
- Marlborough Drive£112,500 median
- Rydal Avenue£124,250 median
- Watkin Lane£78,000 median
- Croston Road£128,750 median
- Fareham Close£162,950 median
- The Ferns£120,475 median
- Todd Lane North£143,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 95 Higher Walton Road7 sales
- 334 Higher Walton Road5 sales
- 40 Higher Walton Road5 sales
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- 109 Higher Walton Road4 sales
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- 339 Higher Walton Road4 sales
- 308 Higher Walton Road3 sales
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- 288 Higher Walton Road3 sales
- 19 Higher Walton Road3 sales
- 343 Higher Walton Road3 sales
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Back to Preston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Higher Walton Road, Preston?
The median price paid in Higher Walton Road, Preston across every sale on the register is £122,750. 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 Higher Walton Road, Preston?
282 sales are on record for Higher Walton Road, Preston, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Higher Walton Road, Preston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +67.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Higher Walton Road, Preston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £215,000, set in 2023. 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 Higher Walton Road, Preston?
£1,015 per square metre, from the 2 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 17 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, “Higher Walton Road, Preston 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.