Foster Street, Widnes house prices are built from 170 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £66,000. Across the 16 years from 2008 to 2024 the median moved +30.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.0%.
Median price paid
£66,000
Change in cash, 2008–2024
+30.8%
Change in real terms
-18.0%
Median per m²
£1,072
HM Land Registry170 sales68 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Foster Street, Widnes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Foster Street, Widnes 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 | 3 | £32,000 | £71,055 |
| 2000s | 9 | £65,000 | £118,411 |
| 2010s | 3 | £76,000 | £107,160 |
| 2020s | 2 | £92,000 | £94,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Foster Street, Widnes is £102,000 in 2024; the lowest is £24,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £32,000 to £102,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,055, so the real change over the whole record is +51.0% — about +1.43% 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: +30.8% in cash against -18.0% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 22 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £103,000 | £103,000 |
| 15 | 17 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 11 | 19 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £121,000 | £123,630 |
| 21 | 12 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £78,000 | £79,696 |
| 78 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £81,000 | £82,761 |
| 48 | 29 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £92,000 | £96,806 |
| 65 | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £67,000 | £70,500 |
| 80 | 11 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £83,500 | £87,862 |
| 43 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £98,000 | £103,119 |
| 58 | 15 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 41 | 21 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 87 | 5 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 84 | 31 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £106,000 | £111,537 |
| 28 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £75,000 | £81,034 |
| 46 | 21 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £67,500 | £78,205 |
| 5 | 20 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £66,000 | £76,467 |
| 98 | 9 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 33 | 28 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £169,999 | £196,959 |
| 47 | 28 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £92,000 | £106,590 |
| 74 | 5 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £87,500 | £110,551 |
| 30 | 4 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £97,000 | £122,554 |
| 56 | 14 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 60 | 9 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £76,000 | £98,402 |
| 72 | 11 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £75,000 | £97,107 |
| 94 | 25 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £72,500 | £96,621 |
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 Foster Street, Widnes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 Foster Street | £72,500 (2015) | £103,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
| 15 Foster Street | £31,000 (2000) | £125,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 11 Foster Street | £26,500 (2002) | £121,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +3.9% |
| 78 Foster Street | £62,000 (2010) | £81,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
| 48 Foster Street | £66,000 (2015) | £92,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 65 Foster Street | £75,000 (2007) | £67,000 (2024) | -0.7% | -3.6% |
| 80 Foster Street | £32,000 (1995) | £83,500 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 43 Foster Street | £29,000 (1997) | £98,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 58 Foster Street | £35,000 (1995) | £110,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
| 41 Foster Street | £41,500 (2004) | £120,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 87 Foster Street | £32,000 (2000) | £110,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 84 Foster Street | £34,000 (2003) | £106,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Foster Street, Widnes 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 | 170 | 100.0% | £66,000 | £3,000 – £169,999 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Foster Street, Widnes
13 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 7.6% 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 £57,000 and the median freehold sale £67,000 — a gap of +17.5%. 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 | 13 | 7.6% | £57,000 |
| Freehold | 157 | 92.4% | £67,000 |
A further 23 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 Foster Street, Widnes
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Halton, 51.9% of 60,140 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 311 | 0.5% |
| B | 6,697 | 11.1% |
| C | 24,200 | 40.2% |
| D | 21,362 | 35.5% |
| E | 6,046 | 10.1% |
| F | 1,179 | 2.0% |
| G | 345 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Halton at £741 a month as of Jun 2026 — £541 for a one-bedroom home and £817 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £66,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.47% 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 WA8, 311 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 151 violent, 7 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 33 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 128,478 residents the 2021 census counted in Halton, that is 2.42 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 Foster Street, Widnes
The 2021 census counted 128,478 residents in Halton across 55,951 households. 61.2% of those households own their home and 38.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
27 state and independent schools have a WA8 postcode: 20 primary, 3 nursery, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wade Deacon High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,658 |
| Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,337 |
| Ormiston Chadwick Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 884 |
| Fairfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 582 |
| Lunts Heath Primary School | Primary | Community school | 419 |
| Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 414 |
| Ditton Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 322 |
| St Bede's Catholic Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 306 |
| Oakfield Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 291 |
| St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 253 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Widnes Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Hough Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Runcorn Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Rainhill Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
Section 09
How Foster Street, Widnes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Foster Street, Widnes sits below that national figure — -58.1%.
Within Widnes the street ranks 675 of 732 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £115,000 (-42.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,072 per square metre, across 68 of the 170 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 £3,000 to £169,999. 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.
Foster Street, Widnes sits in Halton, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Halton at 5.2 times median local earnings of £37,336 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
- Hale Road£75,000 median
- Liverpool Road£119,000 median
- Peel House Lane£115,000 median
- Birchfield Road£135,000 median
- Cowan Way£134,975 median
- Ditchfield Road£119,975 median
- Upton Rocks Avenue£162,000 median
- Hampton Court Way£136,000 median
- Warrington Road£94,000 median
- Greenway Road£70,500 median
- Lingwell Park£166,000 median
- Moorfield Road£117,250 median
- Upton Grange£124,450 median
- Cronton Lane£114,000 median
- Heathfield Park£118,225 median
- Upton Lane£210,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 94 Foster Street5 sales
- 38 Foster Street5 sales
- 55 Foster Street5 sales
- 15 Foster Street4 sales
- 80 Foster Street4 sales
- 43 Foster Street4 sales
- 46 Foster Street4 sales
- 33 Foster Street4 sales
- 30 Foster Street4 sales
- 60 Foster Street4 sales
- 78 Foster Street3 sales
- 58 Foster Street3 sales
- 87 Foster Street3 sales
- 84 Foster Street3 sales
- 28 Foster Street3 sales
- 5 Foster Street3 sales
- 47 Foster Street3 sales
- 56 Foster Street3 sales
- 63 Foster Street3 sales
- 53 Foster Street3 sales
- 68 Foster Street3 sales
- 93 Foster Street3 sales
- 2 Foster Street3 sales
- 19 Foster Street3 sales
Back to Widnes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Foster Street, Widnes?
The median price paid in Foster Street, Widnes across every sale on the register is £66,000. 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 Foster Street, Widnes?
170 sales are on record for Foster Street, Widnes, the most recent completing on 22 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Foster Street, Widnes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.8% between 2008 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Foster Street, Widnes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £102,000, 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 Foster Street, Widnes?
£1,072 per square metre, from the 68 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 22 Jan 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, “Foster Street, Widnes 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.