That is the middle of 1,925 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Widnes’s sales are semi-detached houses
1,925 homes sold in three years: 476 detached houses, 679 semi-detached houses, 655 terraced houses and 115 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£355K
median sale · 476 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£290K–£430K
Last 12 months
£356K135 sold
New build
£430K
Semi-detached houses£210K
median sale · 679 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£255K
Last 12 months
£210K190 sold
Terraced houses£136K
median sale · 655 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£115K–£167K
Last 12 months
£149K196 sold
Flats and maisonettes£105K
median sale · 115 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£87K–£125K
Last 12 months
£102K30 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses35%
Terraced houses34%
Flats and maisonettes6%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Widnes’s homes sold for between £135K and £278K
One sale in ten was under £108K and one in ten over £388K. 67% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £195,000, sits in the £150–200K band
1,925 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,500 in 1995 to £195,000 in the last 12 months (£150,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
551 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,477 in 2003, the busiest year, and 401 in 2009. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 33% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Widnes costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Widnes, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£77K
£98K
£230K
£232K
£245K
£276K
£356K
Semi-detached houses
£46K
£55K
£129K
£130K
£140K
£155K
£210K
Terraced houses
£32K
£33K
£85K
£82K
£87K
£106K
£149K
Flats and maisonettes
£31K
£35K
£112K
£97K
£85K
£90K
£102K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
3,688 new homes have been sold in Widnes since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £344,995
against £194,000 for a home sold on, 78% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
25% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 20% sold leasehold in Widnes. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Liverpool Road is Widnes’s busiest street, with 35 sales in three years
133 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 29 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Liverpool Road
WA8
35
£200,000
Mixed
2
Moorfield Road
WA8
22
£189,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Peel House Lane
WA8
21
£128,000
Mixed
4
Cowan Way
WA8
18
£247,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Upton Rocks Avenue
WA8
18
£115,000
Mostly flats
6
Cronton Lane
WA8
17
£120,000
Mostly flats
7
Ditchfield Road
WA8
16
£220,000
Mixed
8
Derby Road
WA8
16
£205,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Upton Lane
WA8
15
£420,000
Mixed
10
Alder Avenue
WA8
14
£207,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Norlands Lane
WA8
13
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Lynton Crescent
WA8
13
£259,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Warrington Road (WA8)
WA8
13
£170,000
Mixed
14
Afton
WA8
13
£130,000
Mostly terraced houses
15
Foster Street
WA8
13
£103,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Lunts Heath Road: £565,000
Widnes median£195K
Lunts Heath Road£565K
Regency Park£510K
Upton Bridle Path£490K
Balmoral Road£442K
Falkirk Avenue£430K
Cheapest streets
Darlington Court: £75,000
Widnes median£195K
Darlington Court£75K
Randle Mews£85K
St Michaels View£86K
Fir Street£95K
Chidlow Close£96K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 7.5 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cheshire
Widnes is the 42nd most expensive of 46 towns in Cheshire
Widnes is one of Cheshire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Widnes
What is the average house price in Widnes?
The median home in Widnes sold for £195,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,925 standard sales (£195,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £355,000, semi-detached houses £210,000, terraced houses £136,040 and flats and maisonettes £105,000.
Are house prices going up in Widnes?
The median was £195,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£190,000), and £195,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Widnes each year?
551 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 774 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Widnes?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Lunts Heath Road (WA8, £565,000), Regency Park (WA8, £510,000) and Upton Bridle Path (WA8, £490,000).
How much does a new build cost in Widnes?
New homes sold for a median £344,995 over three years, against £194,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 0.6% of sales.
Is Widnes expensive for Cheshire?
Widnes is the 42nd most expensive of 46 towns of 2,500 or more in Cheshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.