The Decks, Runcorn house prices are built from 301 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2007 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £90,950. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved -8.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -28.8%.
Median price paid
£90,950
Change in cash, 2012–2022
-8.2%
Change in real terms
-28.8%
Median per m²
£1,833
HM Land Registry301 sales57 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How The Decks, Runcorn prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Decks, Runcorn house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2007 to 2022. 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 | 3 | £107,500 | £195,833 |
| 2010s | 8 | £76,000 | £107,160 |
| 2020s | 1 | £72,500 | £74,076 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Decks, Runcorn is £125,450 in 2008; the lowest is £69,000 in 2018. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £107,500 to £72,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £186,899, so the real change over the whole record is -55.1% — about -5.19% 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: -8.2% in cash against -28.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 19 Lock 4 | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £75,000 |
| Apartment 27 Lock 7 | 27 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £84,500 | £84,500 |
| Apartment 23 Lock 8 | 26 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £39,995 | £40,864 |
| Apartment 23 Lock 8 | 11 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £86,437 |
| Apartment 33 Lock 3 | 28 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £73,471 |
| Apartment 52 Lock 3 | 31 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £69,000 | £74,552 |
| Apartment 35 Lock 4 | 29 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £64,828 |
| Apartment 40 Lock 4 | 7 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | £83,998 |
| Apartment 46 Lock 3 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £81,500 | £94,425 |
| Apartment 5 Lock 5 | 19 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £58,000 | £67,198 |
| Apartment 20 Lock 4 | 19 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £92,687 |
| Apartment 18 Lock 4 | 2 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £51,000 | £59,088 |
| Apartment 27 Lock 3 | 2 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £79,000 | £103,330 |
| Apartment 50 Lock 3 | 8 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £100,714 |
| Apartment 32 Lock 3 | 28 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £69,000 | £90,250 |
| Apartment 38 Lock 4 | 10 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £94,174 |
| Apartment 20 Lock 7 | 30 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £100,714 |
| Apartment 8 Lock 8 | 19 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £58,000 | £77,297 |
| Apartment 41 Lock 5 | 13 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £74,500 | £99,286 |
| Apartment 36 Lock 8 | 29 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £117,278 |
| Apartment 41 Lock 6 | 8 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £86,626 |
| Apartment 33 Lock 3 | 1 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £64,000 | £85,293 |
| Apartment 41 Lock 8 | 27 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £93,289 |
| Apartment 34 Lock 5 | 9 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £90,624 |
| Apartment 40 Lock 4 | 2 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £71,500 | £95,288 |
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 The Decks, Runcorn values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 19 LOCK 4 the Decks | £133,950 (2007) | £75,000 (2026) | -3.0% | -5.8% |
| APARTMENT 27 LOCK 7 the Decks | £108,950 (2010) | £84,500 (2026) | -1.6% | -4.4% |
| APARTMENT 23 LOCK 8 the Decks | £82,950 (2012) | £39,995 (2025) | -5.5% | -8.2% |
| APARTMENT 33 LOCK 3 the Decks | £98,950 (2007) | £68,000 (2023) | -2.3% | -5.2% |
| APARTMENT 52 LOCK 3 the Decks | £100,950 (2007) | £69,000 (2023) | -2.4% | -5.2% |
| APARTMENT 35 LOCK 4 the Decks | £139,950 (2007) | £60,000 (2023) | -5.2% | -7.9% |
| APARTMENT 40 LOCK 4 the Decks | £129,950 (2007) | £72,500 (2022) | -3.8% | -6.4% |
| APARTMENT 46 LOCK 3 the Decks | £134,950 (2007) | £81,500 (2022) | -3.3% | -5.9% |
| APARTMENT 5 LOCK 5 the Decks | £135,450 (2008) | £58,000 (2022) | -5.9% | -8.3% |
| APARTMENT 20 LOCK 4 the Decks | £107,500 (2007) | £80,000 (2022) | -2.0% | -4.6% |
| APARTMENT 18 LOCK 4 the Decks | £97,450 (2007) | £51,000 (2022) | -4.2% | -6.8% |
| APARTMENT 27 LOCK 3 the Decks | £130,950 (2007) | £79,000 (2019) | -4.1% | -6.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Decks, 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 | 301 | 100.0% | £90,950 | £39,995 – £144,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Decks, Runcorn
301 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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 | 301 | 100.0% | £90,950 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 182 | 60.5% | £97,950 |
| Existing home | 119 | 39.5% | £85,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +15.2%. 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 17 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 The Decks, 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 £90,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.94% 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 The Decks, 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 The Decks, Runcorn compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Decks, Runcorn sits below that national figure — -42.3%.
Within Runcorn the street ranks 398 of 712 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £96,750 (-6.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,833 per square metre, across 57 of the 301 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 £39,995 to £144,950. 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.
The Decks, 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
- 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
- Norleane Crescent£113,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- APARTMENT 33, LOCK 3 the Decks4 sales
- APARTMENT 23, LOCK 8 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 40, LOCK 4 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 50, LOCK 3 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 38, LOCK 4 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 20, LOCK 7 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 34, LOCK 5 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 49, LOCK 3 the Decks3 sales
- APARTMENT 19, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 27, LOCK 7 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 52, LOCK 3 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 35, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 46, LOCK 3 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 5, LOCK 5 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 20, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 18, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 27, LOCK 3 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 32, LOCK 3 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 8, LOCK 8 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 41, LOCK 5 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 41, LOCK 6 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 37, LOCK 8 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 23, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
- APARTMENT 2, LOCK 4 the Decks2 sales
Back to Runcorn house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Decks, Runcorn?
The median price paid in The Decks, Runcorn across every sale on the register is £90,950. 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 The Decks, Runcorn?
301 sales are on record for The Decks, Runcorn, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Decks, Runcorn house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -8.2% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -28.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Decks, Runcorn house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £125,450, set in 2008. 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 The Decks, Runcorn?
£1,833 per square metre, from the 57 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 1 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, “The Decks, 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.