That is the middle of 93 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 5.9 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.
93 homes sold in three years: 31 detached houses, 44 semi-detached houses, 13 terraced houses and 5 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£485K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£745K
Last 12 months
£775K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£249K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£213K–£330K
Last 12 months
£304K13 sold
Terraced houses£230K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£210K–£276K
Last 12 months
£240K5 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 5 sold, median £220K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 47% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses47%
Terraced houses14%
Flats and maisonettes5%
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 Parbold’s homes sold for between £223K and £449K
One sale in ten was under £198K and one in ten over £655K. 38% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £300,000, sits in the £300–400K band
93 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.9 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,000 in 1995 to £316,000 in the last 12 months (£265,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
30 sales in the last 12 months, against 69 in 2001, the busiest year, and 20 in 2009. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Parbold costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Parbold, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£115K
£150K
£247K
£322K
£494K
£518K
£775K
Semi-detached houses
£51K
£68K
£145K
£149K
£185K
£205K
£304K
Terraced houses
—
£53K
£133K
—
£130K
£175K
£240K
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
6 new homes have been sold in Parbold since 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
45% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 42% sold leasehold in Parbold. 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
Burnside is Parbold’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Burnside
WN8
14
£275,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Fairhurst Drive
WN8
9
£220,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
The Common
WN8
6
£508,000
Mixed
4
West View
WN8
5
£229,000
Mostly terraced houses
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.
Parbold’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Appley Bridge, Skelmersdale and Burscough.
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 Parbold
What is the average house price in Parbold?
The median home in Parbold sold for £300,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 93 standard sales (£316,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £485,000, semi-detached houses £248,750, terraced houses £230,000 and flats and maisonettes £220,000.
Are house prices going up in Parbold?
The median was £324,500 in 2025, up 24% on 2024 (£261,500), and £316,000 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 Parbold each year?
30 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 37 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.