Rectory Road, Wigan house prices are built from 123 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 31 Mar 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved -0.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -27.9%.
Median price paid
£70,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
-0.8%
Change in real terms
-27.9%
HM Land Registry123 salesLatest sale 31 Mar 2025
Section 01
How Rectory Road, Wigan prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rectory Road, Wigan house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2021. 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 | £18,000 | £39,969 |
| 2000s | 5 | £72,000 | £131,163 |
| 2010s | 2 | £70,250 | £99,053 |
| 2020s | 1 | £118,000 | £120,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rectory Road, Wigan is £119,000 in 2007; the lowest is £18,000 in 1998. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £18,000 to £118,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £37,324, so the real change over the whole record is +299.4% — about +6.21% 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: -0.8% in cash against -27.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 49 | 13 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 113a | 8 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £210,395 |
| 20 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £107,000 | £112,590 |
| 35 | 22 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £116,500 | £125,874 |
| 41 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £140,000 | £162,202 |
| 50 | 19 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £118,000 | £149,086 |
| 129 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £138,000 | £174,355 |
| 57 | 8 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 67 | 29 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 81 | 26 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| 29 | 4 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £86,000 | £111,350 |
| 55 | 24 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £102,000 | £132,066 |
| 28 | 11 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £73,000 | £95,482 |
| 19 | 31 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £65,000 | £85,019 |
| 26 | 30 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £123,000 | £163,922 |
| 39 | 28 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £75,000 | £99,953 |
| 35 | 27 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £82,000 | £109,282 |
| 55 | 26 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £87,500 | £116,612 |
| 113 | 21 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £176,931 |
| 113a | 22 May 2017 | Semi-detached | £132,000 | £179,653 |
| 135 | 8 May 2017 | Terraced | £82,500 | £112,283 |
| 117 | 17 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £112,500 | £153,113 |
| 37 | 28 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £76,500 | £106,797 |
| 129 | 11 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £119,995 | £167,518 |
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 Rectory Road, Wigan values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Rectory Road | £84,000 (2010) | £155,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.1% |
| 113A Rectory Road | £61,720 (2015) | £199,950 (2024) | +14.0% | +10.3% |
| 35 Rectory Road | £60,000 (2003) | £116,500 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 41 Rectory Road | £11,000 (1999) | £140,000 (2022) | +11.7% | +9.0% |
| 50 Rectory Road | £68,000 (2004) | £118,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
| 129 Rectory Road | £39,995 (2000) | £138,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 57 Rectory Road | £18,000 (1998) | £130,000 (2021) | +9.0% | +6.7% |
| 67 Rectory Road | £45,000 (2009) | £90,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.7% |
| 29 Rectory Road | £34,950 (1999) | £86,000 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 55 Rectory Road | £62,500 (2013) | £102,000 (2020) | +7.2% | +5.4% |
| 28 Rectory Road | £88,000 (2006) | £73,000 (2019) | -1.4% | -3.7% |
| 19 Rectory Road | £20,000 (1999) | £65,000 (2019) | +6.1% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rectory Road, Wigan 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 | 92 | 74.8% | £68,000 | £10,000 – £155,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 17.1% | £65,000 | £20,000 – £199,950 |
| Detached | 8 | 6.5% | £195,000 | £53,500 – £375,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.6% | £23,000 | £23,000 – £67,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rectory Road, Wigan
52 of the sales on record are leasehold and 71 freehold — 42.3% 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 £67,250 and the median freehold sale £74,000 — a gap of +10.0%. 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 | 52 | 42.3% | £67,250 |
| Freehold | 71 | 57.7% | £74,000 |
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 Rectory Road, Wigan
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 £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.68% 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 WN4, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 183,248 residents the 2021 census counted in St. Helens, that is 0.02 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 Rectory Road, Wigan
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.
11 state and independent schools have a WN4 postcode: 8 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,204 |
| The Byrchall High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,138 |
| Cansfield High School | Secondary | Community school | 974 |
| R L Hughes Primary School | Primary | Community school | 425 |
| Nicol Mere School | Primary | Community school | 418 |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 242 |
| Garswood Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 208 |
| St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 187 |
| Bryn St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 186 |
| St Thomas CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bryn Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Garswood Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Earlestown Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Newton-le-Willows Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
Section 09
How Rectory Road, Wigan compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rectory Road, Wigan sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Wigan the street ranks 2223 of 2660 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £107,000 (-34.6%).
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 £10,000 to £375,000. 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.
Rectory Road, Wigan 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
- Bolton Road£82,000 median
- Downall Green Road£84,950 median
- Old Road£80,000 median
- Wotton Drive£93,500 median
- Windsor Road£114,000 median
- Garswood Road£115,000 median
- Weavermill Park£185,000 median
- Princess Road£84,975 median
- Heath Road£89,498 median
- Moxon Way£105,225 median
- Belvedere Road£113,000 median
- Allscott Way£90,000 median
- Bryn Road£80,750 median
- Hilldale£230,495 median
- Low Bank Road£84,000 median
- Dunsdale Drive£91,125 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 123 Rectory Road5 sales
- 35 Rectory Road4 sales
- 57 Rectory Road4 sales
- 67 Rectory Road4 sales
- 19 Rectory Road4 sales
- 26 Rectory Road4 sales
- 25 Rectory Road4 sales
- 27 Rectory Road4 sales
- 49 Rectory Road3 sales
- 113A Rectory Road3 sales
- 50 Rectory Road3 sales
- 129 Rectory Road3 sales
- 55 Rectory Road3 sales
- 39 Rectory Road3 sales
- 117 Rectory Road3 sales
- 37 Rectory Road3 sales
- 58 Rectory Road3 sales
- 47 Rectory Road3 sales
- 46 Rectory Road3 sales
- 41 Rectory Road2 sales
- 29 Rectory Road2 sales
- 28 Rectory Road2 sales
- 113 Rectory Road2 sales
- 135 Rectory Road2 sales
Back to Wigan house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rectory Road, Wigan?
The median price paid in Rectory Road, Wigan across every sale on the register is £70,000. 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 Rectory Road, Wigan?
123 sales are on record for Rectory Road, Wigan, the most recent completing on 31 Mar 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rectory Road, Wigan house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -0.8% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -27.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rectory Road, Wigan house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £119,000, set in 2007. 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 Rectory Road, Wigan?
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 31 Mar 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, “Rectory Road, Wigan 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.