Sold Price History


WA10 5 house prices

WA10 5 house prices are built from 2,449 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £177,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.0%.

Median price paid

£177,500

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+36.8%

Change in real terms

-2.0%

Median per m²

£1,858

HM Land Registry2,449 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026

Section 01

How WA10 5 prices moved

The chart tracks the median WA10 5 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

WA10 5 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£72,000£159,874
2000s10£160,000£291,473
2010s10£179,950£253,730
2020s7£236,500£241,641
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for WA10 5 is £268,000 in 2026; the lowest is £62,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £62,500 to £268,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £138,780, so the real change over the whole record is +93.1% — about +2.15% 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: +36.8% in cash against -2.0% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
48 Knowles House Avenue12 Jun 2026Semi-detached£160,000£160,000
23 Ecclesfield Road29 May 2026Semi-detached£345,000£345,000
22 Millfields22 May 2026Detached£268,000£268,000
48 Hawthorn Drive21 May 2026Semi-detached£268,000£268,000
42 Spinney Green15 May 2026Detached£465,000£465,000
33 the Spires6 May 2026Semi-detached£167,500£167,500
16 Tatton Way1 Apr 2026Detached£500,000£500,000
34 Tatton Way1 Apr 2026Detached£430,000£430,000
1 Pinfold Drive30 Mar 2026Detached£385,000£385,000
2 Pike House Road20 Mar 2026Semi-detached£399,950£399,950
15 Hawthorn Drive20 Mar 2026Detached£265,000£265,000
42 the Avenue20 Mar 2026Semi-detached£190,000£190,000
39 Knowles House Avenue20 Mar 2026Semi-detached£150,000£150,000
11 Ecclesfield Road19 Mar 2026Detached£375,000£375,000
23 Walmesley Road19 Mar 2026Semi-detached£350,000£350,000
1 Richmond Close16 Mar 2026Detached£353,500£353,500
19 Oak Tree Road24 Feb 2026Semi-detached£240,000£240,000
28 Gunning Avenue13 Feb 2026Semi-detached£260,000£260,000
24 the Spires6 Feb 2026Detached£435,000£435,000
26 Walmesley Road30 Jan 2026Semi-detached£248,000£248,000
56 Chelford Road30 Jan 2026Terraced£212,000£212,000
20 Selkirk Drive16 Jan 2026Detached£220,000£220,000
84 Chelford Road12 Jan 2026Terraced£176,000£176,000
11 Hartford Road19 Dec 2025Semi-detached£230,000£235,000
9 Osborne Road12 Dec 2025Semi-detached£258,500£264,120
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 WA10 5 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
48 Knowles House Avenue£34,400 (2000)£160,000 (2026)+6.1%+3.3%
23 Ecclesfield Road£66,000 (1999)£345,000 (2026)+6.3%+3.6%
22 Millfields£58,000 (1996)£268,000 (2026)+5.2%+2.6%
48 Hawthorn Drive£157,500 (2004)£268,000 (2026)+2.4%-0.4%
33 the Spires£146,000 (2017)£167,500 (2026)+1.5%-1.9%
16 Tatton Way£370,700 (2016)£500,000 (2026)+3.0%-0.3%
34 Tatton Way£365,000 (2017)£430,000 (2026)+1.8%-1.6%
1 Pinfold Drive£139,950 (2002)£385,000 (2026)+4.3%+1.5%
39 Knowles House Avenue£43,000 (1996)£150,000 (2026)+4.3%+1.6%
42 the Avenue£93,950 (2021)£190,000 (2026)+15.1%+9.9%
15 Hawthorn Drive£209,000 (2007)£265,000 (2026)+1.3%-1.6%
2 Pike House Road£220,000 (2022)£399,950 (2026)+16.1%+11.9%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. WA10 5 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached1,29052.7%£166,500£11,000 – £695,000
Detached80833.0%£265,000£350 – £1,060,000
Terraced30012.2%£154,000£19,375 – £350,000
Flat or maisonette512.1%£114,950£23,500 – £250,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in WA10 5

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 715 certificates cover WA10 5, and their median floor area is 84 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +10.5%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area84 m²about 904 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to62 m²about 667 sq ft
Larger quarter, from104 m²about 1,119 sq ft
Under 60 m²21.8%156 homes
150 m² and over7.3%52 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 25 Nov 2021 and 2 Jul 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in WA10 5

834 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1,615 freehold — 34.1% 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 £179,725 and the median freehold sale £175,000 — a gap of -2.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold83434.1%£179,725
Freehold1,61565.9%£175,000
New build39216.0%£194,950
Existing home2,05784.0%£172,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +13.3%. 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 86 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 WA10 5

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Knowsley, 58.9% of 83,978 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A3270.4%
B11,83214.1%
C37,33744.5%
D24,96429.7%
E7,2218.6%
F1,6722.0%
G6250.7%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Knowsley.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Knowsley at £829 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £898 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £177,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.60% 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 WA10, 425 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 162 violent, 8 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 54 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times busier.

Against the 154,519 residents the 2021 census counted in Knowsley, that is 2.75 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 WA10 5

The 2021 census counted 154,519 residents in Knowsley across 66,073 households. 60.3% of those households own their home and 39.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a WA10 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary, 2 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Cowley International CollegeSecondaryCommunity school1,514
De La Salle SchoolSecondaryAcademy sponsor led1,180
Bleak Hill Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school608
Eccleston Mere Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school397
Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school375
Rivington Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school234
St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter230
Parish Church of England Primary School, St HelensPrimaryAcademy converter229
St Julie's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school212
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school207
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
St Helens Central Rail StationRail1.7 km
Thatto Heath Rail StationRail2.0 km
Eccleston Park Rail StationRail3.1 km
Lea Green Rail StationRail3.7 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How WA10 5 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. WA10 5 sits above that national figure — +12.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,858 per square metre, across 24 of the 2,449 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 £350 to £1,060,000. 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.

WA10 5 sits in Knowsley, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Knowsley at 5.0 times median local earnings of £39,064 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

Other sectors in WA10

The wider district is WA10.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in WA10 5?

The median price paid in WA10 5 across every sale on the register is £177,500. 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 WA10 5?

2,449 sales are on record for WA10 5, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have WA10 5 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were WA10 5 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £268,000, set in 2026. 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 WA10 5?

£1,858 per square metre, from the 24 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 12 Jun 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, “WA10 5 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.