Cotton Lane, Runcorn house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 10 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £71,500. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +45.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -11.7%.
Median price paid
£71,500
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+45.9%
Change in real terms
-11.7%
HM Land Registry100 salesLatest sale 10 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Cotton Lane, Runcorn prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cotton Lane, Runcorn house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £72,000 | £131,163 |
| 2020s | 2 | £120,000 | £122,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cotton Lane, Runcorn is £128,750 in 2022; the lowest is £38,450 in 2002. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £38,450 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £74,165, so the real change over the whole record is +70.3% — about +2.45% 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: +45.9% in cash against -11.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 10 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £134,000 | £134,000 |
| 165 | 16 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 48 | 8 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 58 | 12 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £174,000 | £183,090 |
| 80 | 22 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £127,000 | £133,634 |
| 175 | 31 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 21 | 16 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £75,000 | £78,918 |
| 100 | 9 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £93,750 | £98,647 |
| 193 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £147,000 | £170,312 |
| 58 | 10 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 86 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £137,500 | £159,306 |
| 80 | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 4 | 16 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 133 | 22 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £76,000 | £88,053 |
| 98 | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £72,000 | £90,968 |
| 106 | 1 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £80,000 | £101,075 |
| 171 | 17 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £110,150 | £139,168 |
| 20 | 5 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £86,500 | £109,288 |
| 14 | 1 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £90,000 | £116,529 |
| 163 | 30 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 10 | 29 May 2019 | Terraced | £65,000 | £85,019 |
| 52 | 29 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £119,943 |
| 183 | 8 May 2018 | Terraced | £90,000 | £119,943 |
| 88 | 7 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £79,000 | £107,519 |
| 147 | 3 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £65,000 | £88,465 |
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 Cotton Lane, Runcorn values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Cotton Lane | £64,000 (2007) | £134,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 58 Cotton Lane | £82,500 (2015) | £174,000 (2024) | +8.6% | +5.2% |
| 80 Cotton Lane | £110,000 (2022) | £127,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +2.4% |
| 21 Cotton Lane | £69,960 (2006) | £75,000 (2024) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
| 100 Cotton Lane | £73,000 (2012) | £93,750 (2024) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 193 Cotton Lane | £85,000 (2006) | £147,000 (2022) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 86 Cotton Lane | £34,000 (1997) | £137,500 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 14 Cotton Lane | £69,000 (2016) | £90,000 (2020) | +6.9% | +4.9% |
| 10 Cotton Lane | £64,995 (2005) | £65,000 (2019) | +0.0% | -2.3% |
| 52 Cotton Lane | £108,000 (2007) | £90,000 (2018) | -1.6% | -4.0% |
| 183 Cotton Lane | £54,000 (2003) | £90,000 (2018) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 88 Cotton Lane | £55,000 (2006) | £79,000 (2017) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cotton Lane, Runcorn 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 | 76 | 76.0% | £72,000 | £28,000 – £174,000 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 22.0% | £54,000 | £16,500 – £120,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.0% | £63,000 | £63,000 – £63,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 1.0% | £82,000 | £82,000 – £82,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cotton Lane, Runcorn
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 100 freehold — 0.0% 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 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 100 | 100.0% | £71,500 |
A further 6 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 Cotton Lane, Runcorn
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire West and Chester, 47.3% of 169,454 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 992 | 0.6% |
| B | 23,366 | 13.8% |
| C | 55,716 | 32.9% |
| D | 60,672 | 35.8% |
| E | 21,226 | 12.5% |
| F | 5,669 | 3.3% |
| G | 1,813 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire West and Chester at £981 a month as of Jun 2026 — £717 for a one-bedroom home and £1,109 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £71,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.46% 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 WA7, 231 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 114 violent, 6 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 357,150 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire West and Chester, that is 0.65 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 Cotton Lane, Runcorn
The 2021 census counted 357,150 residents in Cheshire West and Chester across 155,154 households. 69.5% of those households own their home and 30.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
34 state and independent schools have a WA7 postcode: 29 primary, 4 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grange School | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,200 |
| The Heath School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,174 |
| Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 754 |
| Sandymoor Ormiston Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 631 |
| Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 332 |
| St Berteline's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 252 |
| Brookvale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| St Clement's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 209 |
| Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 205 |
| Pewithall School | Primary | Community school | 204 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Runcorn East Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Runcorn Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Frodsham Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Widnes Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
Section 09
How Cotton Lane, Runcorn compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cotton Lane, Runcorn sits below that national figure — -54.6%.
Within Runcorn the street ranks 546 of 712 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £96,750 (-26.1%).
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 £16,500 to £174,000. 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.
Cotton Lane, Runcorn sits in Cheshire West and Chester, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire West and Chester at 6.9 times median local earnings of £37,198 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
- The Decks£90,950 median
- Halton Road£81,000 median
- Old Coach Road£115,000 median
- Heath Road South£77,400 median
- The Glen£70,000 median
- Main Street£99,975 median
- Weston Road£101,800 median
- The Uplands£59,975 median
- Linnets Park£105,000 median
- Littlebourne£93,000 median
- East Lane£65,000 median
- Malmesbury Park£124,950 median
- Grangemoor£79,000 median
- Manor Fell£84,000 median
- Walsingham Drive£240,000 median
- Oxford Road£130,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 58 Cotton Lane3 sales
- 100 Cotton Lane3 sales
- 86 Cotton Lane3 sales
- 10 Cotton Lane3 sales
- 155 Cotton Lane3 sales
- 27 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 80 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 21 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 193 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 14 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 52 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 183 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 88 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 57 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 145 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 108 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 69 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 24 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 23 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 19 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 76 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 203 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 117 Cotton Lane2 sales
- 207 Cotton Lane2 sales
Back to Runcorn house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cotton Lane, Runcorn?
The median price paid in Cotton Lane, Runcorn across every sale on the register is £71,500. 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 Cotton Lane, Runcorn?
100 sales are on record for Cotton Lane, Runcorn, the most recent completing on 10 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cotton Lane, Runcorn house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.9% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -11.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cotton Lane, Runcorn house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £128,750, 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 Cotton Lane, Runcorn?
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 10 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, “Cotton Lane, Runcorn 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.