Lower House Lane, Widnes house prices are built from 112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 10 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £88,750. Across the 12 years from 2007 to 2019 the median moved +1.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -23.5%.
Median price paid
£88,750
Change in cash, 2007–2019
+1.7%
Change in real terms
-23.5%
Median per m²
£1,224
HM Land Registry112 sales33 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Lower House Lane, Widnes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower House Lane, Widnes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2019. 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 | 2 | £37,225 | £82,657 |
| 2000s | 3 | £65,000 | £118,411 |
| 2010s | 2 | £97,000 | £136,770 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower House Lane, Widnes is £121,500 in 2019; the lowest is £34,000 in 2000. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £121,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,868, so the real change over the whole record is +96.5% — about +3.27% 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: +1.7% in cash against -23.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | 10 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 106 | 23 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 9 | 4 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £182,000 | £191,507 |
| 70 | 21 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £169,000 | £177,828 |
| 127 | 24 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 28 | 18 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £162,000 | £175,034 |
| 19 | 6 Dec 2023 | Detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 129 | 14 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £167,471 |
| 28 | 16 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £108,000 | £116,690 |
| 116 | 29 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 71 | 29 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 46a | 4 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £85,914 |
| 31 | 15 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £142,000 | £179,409 |
| 103 | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 125 | 17 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £153,000 | £200,121 |
| 116 | 6 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £123,000 | £160,881 |
| 16 | 29 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £80,000 | £104,638 |
| 69 | 28 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 46b | 7 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| 124 | 22 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £105,000 | £137,338 |
| 79 | 8 Mar 2019 | Detached | £175,000 | £228,896 |
| 141 | 22 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| 49 | 14 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| 70 | 13 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £116,500 | £155,260 |
| 34 | 25 May 2018 | Terraced | £44,000 | £58,639 |
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 Lower House Lane, Widnes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 Lower House Lane | £112,500 (2007) | £160,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.0% |
| 106 Lower House Lane | £84,000 (2008) | £150,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 9 Lower House Lane | £39,000 (1998) | £182,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 70 Lower House Lane | £30,000 (1999) | £169,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 127 Lower House Lane | £29,000 (2000) | £155,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 28 Lower House Lane | £108,000 (2023) | £162,000 (2023) | +50.0% | +50.0% |
| 129 Lower House Lane | £87,500 (2006) | £155,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 116 Lower House Lane | £52,000 (2003) | £145,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| 103 Lower House Lane | £60,000 (2003) | £130,000 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
| 125 Lower House Lane | £31,500 (1998) | £153,000 (2019) | +7.8% | +5.5% |
| 16 Lower House Lane | £34,000 (2000) | £80,000 (2019) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 69 Lower House Lane | £125,000 (2012) | £150,000 (2019) | +2.6% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower House Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 59 | 52.7% | £98,000 | £29,000 – £155,000 |
| Terraced | 47 | 42.0% | £85,000 | £17,981 – £182,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.5% | £150,000 | £48,575 – £225,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.9% | £68,000 | £68,000 – £68,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower House Lane, Widnes
8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 104 freehold — 7.1% 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 £65,250 and the median freehold sale £91,500 — a gap of +40.2%. 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 | 8 | 7.1% | £65,250 |
| Freehold | 104 | 92.9% | £91,500 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £134,000 |
| Existing home | 111 | 99.1% | £87,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +53.1%. 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 8 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 Lower House Lane, 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 £88,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.02% 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 Lower House Lane, 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 Lower House Lane, Widnes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower House Lane, Widnes sits below that national figure — -43.7%.
Within Widnes the street ranks 522 of 732 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £115,000 (-22.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,224 per square metre, across 33 of the 112 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 £17,981 to £225,000. 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.
Lower House Lane, 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
- Foster Street£66,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 70 Lower House Lane5 sales
- 103 Lower House Lane4 sales
- 121 Lower House Lane4 sales
- 147 Lower House Lane4 sales
- 9 Lower House Lane3 sales
- 116 Lower House Lane3 sales
- 34 Lower House Lane3 sales
- 131 Lower House Lane3 sales
- 73 Lower House Lane3 sales
- 84 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 106 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 127 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 28 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 129 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 125 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 16 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 69 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 46B Lower House Lane2 sales
- 124 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 79 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 120 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 123 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 30 Lower House Lane2 sales
- 149 Lower House Lane2 sales
Back to Widnes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower House Lane, Widnes?
The median price paid in Lower House Lane, Widnes across every sale on the register is £88,750. 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 Lower House Lane, Widnes?
112 sales are on record for Lower House Lane, Widnes, the most recent completing on 10 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower House Lane, Widnes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +1.7% between 2007 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -23.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower House Lane, Widnes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £121,500, 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 Lower House Lane, Widnes?
£1,224 per square metre, from the 33 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 10 Nov 2025. 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, “Lower House Lane, 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.