Wellington Street, Preston house prices are built from 192 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 6 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £79,500. Across the 12 years from 2013 to 2025 the median moved +45.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.3%.
Median price paid
£79,500
Change in cash, 2013–2025
+45.9%
Change in real terms
+2.3%
Median per m²
£1,206
HM Land Registry192 sales69 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Wellington Street, Preston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wellington Street, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 3 | £36,000 | £79,937 |
| 2000s | 9 | £88,500 | £161,221 |
| 2010s | 3 | £92,000 | £129,720 |
| 2020s | 3 | £103,000 | £105,239 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wellington Street, Preston is £125,500 in 2025; the lowest is £32,250 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £32,250 to £125,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £69,958, so the real change over the whole record is +83.3% — about +2.11% 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: +45.9% in cash against +2.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 2 71 | 6 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £53,000 | £53,000 |
| Flat 2 67 | 18 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £83,783 |
| 80 | 22 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 94 | 29 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £147,000 | £150,196 |
| 126 | 10 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £87,500 | £89,402 |
| 113 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £125,500 | £128,228 |
| 94 | 20 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £83,000 | £87,336 |
| 118 | 2 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £120,800 | £127,110 |
| 12 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £138,000 | £145,209 |
| 96 | 14 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £118,000 | £124,164 |
| 46 | 10 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £93,000 | £100,483 |
| Flat 3 69 | 17 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £50,000 | £54,023 |
| 111 | 17 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £75,000 | £81,034 |
| 31 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £140,000 | £162,202 |
| 8 | 11 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £86,500 | £100,218 |
| 25 | 10 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 90 | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £98,000 | £113,541 |
| Flat 4 67 | 15 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £58,000 | £67,198 |
| 12 | 29 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| Flat 2 69 | 7 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £61,950 | £71,774 |
| 20 | 5 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £103,000 | £130,134 |
| 110 | 1 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £80,000 | £101,075 |
| 119 | 29 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 91 | 13 Aug 2021 | Detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 118 | 20 May 2021 | Terraced | £96,000 | £121,290 |
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 Wellington Street, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 2 71 Wellington Street | £71,000 (2006) | £53,000 (2026) | -1.5% | -4.3% |
| FLAT 2 67 Wellington Street | £69,500 (2006) | £82,000 (2025) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 80 Wellington Street | £70,000 (2011) | £130,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
| 94 Wellington Street | £83,000 (2024) | £147,000 (2025) | +77.1% | +72.0% |
| 113 Wellington Street | £89,950 (2004) | £125,500 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| 118 Wellington Street | £23,000 (2000) | £120,800 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.3% |
| 12 Wellington Street | £25,000 (2000) | £138,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.5% |
| 96 Wellington Street | £36,000 (1997) | £118,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 46 Wellington Street | £32,500 (1995) | £93,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +1.2% |
| FLAT 3 69 Wellington Street | £72,000 (2005) | £50,000 (2023) | -2.0% | -4.8% |
| 111 Wellington Street | £82,000 (2006) | £75,000 (2023) | -0.5% | -3.4% |
| 31 Wellington Street | £42,000 (1998) | £140,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wellington Street, 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 | 154 | 80.2% | £83,000 | £20,000 – £305,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22 | 11.5% | £70,000 | £24,500 – £84,000 |
| Semi-detached | 11 | 5.7% | £52,500 | £18,350 – £125,500 |
| Detached | 5 | 2.6% | £173,500 | £69,000 – £235,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wellington Street, Preston
22 of the sales on record are leasehold and 170 freehold — 11.5% 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 £71,000 and the median freehold sale £85,000 — a gap of +19.7%. 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 | 22 | 11.5% | £71,000 |
| Freehold | 170 | 88.5% | £85,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.0% | £73,475 |
| Existing home | 190 | 99.0% | £80,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.2%. 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 20 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 Wellington Street, 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 £79,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.85% 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 PR4, 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 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 0.01 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 Wellington Street, 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.
32 state and independent schools have a PR4 postcode: 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutton Church of England Grammar School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 807 |
| Carr Hill High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 790 |
| Tarleton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 674 |
| Cottam Primary School | Primary | Community school | 308 |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Longton | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 246 |
| Tarleton Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 242 |
| New Longton All Saints CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 217 |
| Longton Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 213 |
| The Willows Catholic Primary School, Kirkham | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Tarleton Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Salwick Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Kirkham & Wesham Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Moss Side Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
| Lytham Rail Station | Rail | 8.9 km |
Section 09
How Wellington Street, Preston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wellington Street, Preston sits below that national figure — -49.5%.
Within Preston the street ranks 3188 of 3749 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £125,000 (-36.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,206 per square metre, across 69 of the 192 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 £18,350 to £305,000. 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.
Wellington Street, 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
- Station Road£97,000 median
- Lytham Road£128,000 median
- Liverpool Road£188,000 median
- Liverpool Old Road£150,000 median
- School Lane£139,000 median
- Chapel Lane£215,000 median
- Hesketh Lane£181,000 median
- Woodplumpton Road£135,000 median
- Church Road£158,500 median
- Dorchester Road£190,000 median
- Hoyles Lane£249,995 median
- Preston Old Road£138,000 median
- Maxy House Road£238,750 median
- Ribby Road£167,250 median
- Redwood Drive£231,000 median
- Butlers Meadow£83,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 96 Wellington Street6 sales
- 90 Wellington Street6 sales
- 88 Wellington Street6 sales
- 31 Wellington Street5 sales
- 20 Wellington Street5 sales
- 33 Wellington Street5 sales
- 28 Wellington Street5 sales
- 118 Wellington Street4 sales
- 12 Wellington Street4 sales
- 8 Wellington Street4 sales
- 110 Wellington Street4 sales
- 91 Wellington Street4 sales
- 22 Wellington Street4 sales
- 38 Wellington Street4 sales
- 104 Wellington Street4 sales
- 80 Wellington Street3 sales
- 113 Wellington Street3 sales
- FLAT 4, 67 Wellington Street3 sales
- FLAT 2, 69 Wellington Street3 sales
- 119 Wellington Street3 sales
- 73 Wellington Street3 sales
- 41 Wellington Street3 sales
- 114 Wellington Street3 sales
- 10 Wellington Street3 sales
Back to Preston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wellington Street, Preston?
The median price paid in Wellington Street, Preston across every sale on the register is £79,500. 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 Wellington Street, Preston?
192 sales are on record for Wellington Street, Preston, the most recent completing on 6 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wellington Street, Preston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.9% between 2013 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wellington Street, Preston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £125,500, set in 2025. 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 Wellington Street, Preston?
£1,206 per square metre, from the 69 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 6 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, “Wellington Street, 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.