Old Coach Road, Runcorn house prices are built from 235 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 13 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £115,000. Across the 18 years from 2007 to 2025 the median moved -24.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -55.8%.
Median price paid
£115,000
Change in cash, 2007–2025
-24.7%
Change in real terms
-55.8%
Median per m²
£1,902
HM Land Registry235 sales75 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Old Coach Road, Runcorn prices moved
The chart tracks the median Old Coach Road, Runcorn house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £116,500 | £212,229 |
| 2010s | 3 | £72,500 | £102,225 |
| 2020s | 3 | £88,000 | £89,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Old Coach Road, Runcorn is £209,995 in 2019; the lowest is £70,250 in 2018. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £116,500 to £95,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £216,138, so the real change over the whole record is -55.1% — about -3.74% 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: -24.7% in cash against -55.8% 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 5 Gilbert House | 13 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| Flat 35 Waterside Court | 12 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £94,250 | £94,250 |
| Flat 9 Adamson House | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| Flat 11 Gilbert House | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | £113,413 |
| Flat 32 Gilbert House | 12 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £69,950 | £71,471 |
| 2 | 14 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Flat 2 Waterside Court | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £97,065 |
| Flat 3 Waterside Court | 24 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £87,870 |
| Flat 14 Jessop House | 22 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £69,478 |
| 33 | 3 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £247,000 | £252,370 |
| Flat 19 Waterside Court | 17 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £83,783 |
| Flat 52 Waterside Court | 29 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £94,511 |
| Flat 26 Adamson House | 29 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £81,739 |
| Flat 2 Gilbert House | 2 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| Flat 37 Gilbert House | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £110,348 |
| Flat 38 Waterside Court | 24 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 8 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £99,963 |
| Flat 22 Jessop House | 13 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £51,000 | £53,664 |
| Flat 11 Gilbert House | 1 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £98,910 |
| Flat 12 Jessop House | 16 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £73,657 |
| Flat 34 Waterside Court | 12 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £92,071 |
| Flat 30 Waterside Court | 22 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £84,500 | £91,299 |
| 5 | 7 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £192,322 |
| Flat 4 Waterside Court | 27 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| Flat 24 Gilbert House | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £73,000 | £84,577 |
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 Old Coach Road, Runcorn values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 5 GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road | £89,950 (2007) | £80,000 (2026) | -0.6% | -3.5% |
| FLAT 35 WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road | £119,000 (2005) | £94,250 (2026) | -1.1% | -3.9% |
| FLAT 9 ADAMSON HOUSE Old Coach Road | £119,995 (2006) | £95,000 (2026) | -1.2% | -4.0% |
| FLAT 11 GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road | £94,000 (2024) | £111,000 (2025) | +18.1% | +14.7% |
| FLAT 32 GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road | £94,500 (2006) | £69,950 (2025) | -1.6% | -4.4% |
| 2 Old Coach Road | £105,000 (2006) | £120,000 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 2 WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road | £108,000 (2005) | £95,000 (2025) | -0.6% | -3.5% |
| FLAT 3 WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road | £109,000 (2005) | £86,000 (2025) | -1.2% | -4.0% |
| FLAT 14 JESSOP HOUSE Old Coach Road | £125,000 (2006) | £68,000 (2025) | -3.2% | -5.9% |
| 33 Old Coach Road | £199,995 (2019) | £247,000 (2025) | +3.6% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 19 WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road | £128,000 (2005) | £82,000 (2025) | -2.2% | -5.0% |
| FLAT 52 WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road | £102,850 (2005) | £92,500 (2025) | -0.5% | -3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old Coach Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 203 | 86.4% | £111,350 | £45,000 – £142,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 10.2% | £129,950 | £97,250 – £247,000 |
| Detached | 7 | 3.0% | £224,995 | £209,995 – £255,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.4% | £88,400 | £88,400 – £88,400 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Old Coach Road, Runcorn
206 of the sales on record are leasehold and 29 freehold — 87.7% 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 £110,850 and the median freehold sale £138,950 — a gap of +25.3%. 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 | 206 | 87.7% | £110,850 |
| Freehold | 29 | 12.3% | £138,950 |
| New build | 151 | 64.3% | £119,000 |
| Existing home | 84 | 35.7% | £87,750 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.6%. 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 36 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 Old Coach Road, 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 £115,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.24% 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 Old Coach Road, 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 Old Coach Road, Runcorn compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Coach Road, Runcorn sits below that national figure — -27.0%.
Within Runcorn the street ranks 281 of 712 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £96,750 (+18.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,902 per square metre, across 75 of the 235 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 £45,000 to £255,000. 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.
Old Coach Road, 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
- 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
- Norleane Crescent£113,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 38, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road4 sales
- FLAT 28, ADAMSON HOUSE Old Coach Road4 sales
- FLAT 35, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 32, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 37, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 24, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road3 sales
- 25 Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 10, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 18, JESSOP HOUSE Old Coach Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 9, ADAMSON HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 11, GILBERT HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- 2 Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 14, JESSOP HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- 33 Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 19, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 52, WATERSIDE COURT Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 26, ADAMSON HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- 8 Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 22, JESSOP HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
- FLAT 12, JESSOP HOUSE Old Coach Road2 sales
Back to Runcorn house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Old Coach Road, Runcorn?
The median price paid in Old Coach Road, Runcorn across every sale on the register is £115,000. 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 Old Coach Road, Runcorn?
235 sales are on record for Old Coach Road, Runcorn, the most recent completing on 13 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Old Coach Road, Runcorn house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -24.7% between 2007 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -55.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Old Coach Road, Runcorn house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £209,995, set in 2019. 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 Old Coach Road, Runcorn?
£1,902 per square metre, from the 75 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 13 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, “Old Coach Road, 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.