Leach Lane, St Helens house prices are built from 191 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +94.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.9%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+94.8%
Change in real terms
+42.9%
HM Land Registry191 salesLatest sale 18 May 2026
Section 01
How Leach Lane, St Helens prices moved
The chart tracks the median Leach Lane, St Helens house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £39,375 | £87,431 |
| 2000s | 7 | £74,950 | £136,537 |
| 2010s | 4 | £121,000 | £170,610 |
| 2020s | 4 | £142,500 | £145,598 |
The highest yearly median on record for Leach Lane, St Helens is £206,500 in 2024; the lowest is £35,250 in 1999. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £47,000 to £206,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £104,362, so the real change over the whole record is +108.2% — about +2.56% 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: +94.8% in cash against +42.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £142,000 | £142,000 |
| 434 | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £388,500 | £388,500 |
| 4 | 22 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 261 | 14 Apr 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 361 | 22 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 30 | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 225 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 101 | 1 Jul 2024 | Detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 273 | 24 May 2024 | Detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 362 | 10 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £193,000 | £203,082 |
| 426 | 6 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £84,000 | £88,388 |
| 247 | 14 Apr 2023 | Detached | £469,000 | £506,736 |
| 38 | 14 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 44 | 27 Jan 2023 | Detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 63 | 7 Dec 2022 | Detached | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 95 | 5 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £198,000 | £229,400 |
| 237 | 17 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 239 | 4 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £326,721 |
| 57 | 30 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 235 | 7 Jun 2022 | Detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 398 | 13 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £153,000 | £177,264 |
| 56 | 26 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 56 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 225 | 18 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 386 | 18 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £157,000 | £181,898 |
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 Leach Lane, St Helens values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 Leach Lane | £46,750 (1999) | £142,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 434 Leach Lane | £254,000 (2020) | £388,500 (2026) | +7.3% | +2.8% |
| 361 Leach Lane | £80,000 (2014) | £160,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.3% |
| 30 Leach Lane | £99,500 (2021) | £152,000 (2024) | +15.2% | +8.4% |
| 225 Leach Lane | £50,500 (2001) | £220,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 362 Leach Lane | £39,000 (2002) | £193,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 426 Leach Lane | £52,000 (2002) | £84,000 (2024) | +2.2% | -0.6% |
| 247 Leach Lane | £247,985 (2003) | £469,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 38 Leach Lane | £37,500 (1999) | £120,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 44 Leach Lane | £49,000 (2000) | £280,000 (2023) | +7.9% | +5.0% |
| 63 Leach Lane | £165,000 (2007) | £355,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 235 Leach Lane | £150,000 (2018) | £325,000 (2022) | +21.3% | +17.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leach Lane, St Helens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 137 | 71.7% | £107,000 | £20,000 – £282,000 |
| Detached | 30 | 15.7% | £210,000 | £49,000 – £469,000 |
| Terraced | 24 | 12.6% | £73,500 | £20,000 – £176,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Leach Lane, St Helens
101 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 52.9% 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 £110,000 and the median freehold sale £108,500 — a gap of -1.4%. 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 | 101 | 52.9% | £110,000 |
| Freehold | 90 | 47.1% | £108,500 |
| New build | 4 | 2.1% | £278,500 |
| Existing home | 187 | 97.9% | £108,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +157.9%. 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 10 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 Leach Lane, St Helens
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across St. Helens, 45.4% of 92,985 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 254 | 0.3% |
| B | 8,496 | 9.1% |
| C | 33,448 | 36.0% |
| D | 37,715 | 40.6% |
| E | 10,397 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,997 | 2.1% |
| G | 678 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in St. Helens at £798 a month as of Jun 2026 — £587 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.71% 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 WA9, 203 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 183,248 residents the 2021 census counted in St. Helens, that is 1.11 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 Leach Lane, St Helens
The 2021 census counted 183,248 residents in St. Helens across 81,013 households. 65.0% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a WA9 postcode: 16 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sutton Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,441 |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 897 |
| Thatto Heath Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 631 |
| Broad Oak Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 630 |
| Allanson Street Primary School | Primary | Community school | 454 |
| Sherdley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 429 |
| Sutton Oak CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 301 |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 265 |
| Robins Lane Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 248 |
| Eaves Primary School | Primary | Community school | 233 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lea Green Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| St Helens Central Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Thatto Heath Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Rainhill Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
Section 09
How Leach Lane, St Helens compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leach Lane, St Helens sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Within St Helens the street ranks 649 of 1428 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £95,000 (+15.8%).
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 £20,000 to £469,000. 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.
Leach Lane, St Helens sits in St. Helens, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in St. Helens at 5.7 times median local earnings of £33,379 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
- Clock Face Road£79,000 median
- Stratton Drive£114,000 median
- Fleet Lane£60,000 median
- Elephant Lane£60,500 median
- Robins Lane£79,498 median
- Nutgrove Road£60,000 median
- New Street£87,000 median
- Parr Stocks Road£40,500 median
- Derbyshire Hill Road£57,000 median
- Brookway Lane£54,475 median
- Gartons Lane£69,000 median
- Mount Pleasant Avenue£97,500 median
- Irwin Road£71,000 median
- Stirling Crescent£105,000 median
- Chandlers Way£129,973 median
- Marshalls Cross Road£80,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 217 Leach Lane5 sales
- 225 Leach Lane4 sales
- 345 Leach Lane4 sales
- 215 Leach Lane4 sales
- 379 Leach Lane4 sales
- 361 Leach Lane3 sales
- 362 Leach Lane3 sales
- 247 Leach Lane3 sales
- 56 Leach Lane3 sales
- 386 Leach Lane3 sales
- 40 Leach Lane3 sales
- 203 Leach Lane3 sales
- 46 Leach Lane3 sales
- 199 Leach Lane3 sales
- 18 Leach Lane3 sales
- 382 Leach Lane3 sales
- 211 Leach Lane3 sales
- 257 Leach Lane3 sales
- 363 Leach Lane2 sales
- 434 Leach Lane2 sales
- 30 Leach Lane2 sales
- 426 Leach Lane2 sales
- 38 Leach Lane2 sales
- 44 Leach Lane2 sales
Back to St Helens house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Leach Lane, St Helens?
The median price paid in Leach Lane, St Helens across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 Leach Lane, St Helens?
191 sales are on record for Leach Lane, St Helens, the most recent completing on 18 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Leach Lane, St Helens house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +94.8% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Leach Lane, St Helens house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £206,500, set in 2024. 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 Leach Lane, St Helens?
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 18 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, “Leach Lane, St Helens 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.