The median home in Newton-le-Willows sells for £203,500
That is the middle of 858 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 4.9 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.
38% of Newton-le-Willows’s sales are semi-detached houses
858 homes sold in three years: 179 detached houses, 323 semi-detached houses, 307 terraced houses and 49 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£330K
median sale · 179 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£372K
Last 12 months
£343K50 sold
Semi-detached houses£215K
median sale · 323 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£179K–£255K
Last 12 months
£220K103 sold
Terraced houses£165K
median sale · 307 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£137K–£205K
Last 12 months
£173K95 sold
Flats and maisonettes£110K
median sale · 49 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£94K–£130K
Last 12 months
£105K11 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses38%
Terraced houses36%
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 Newton-le-Willows’s homes sold for between £160K and £266K
One sale in ten was under £118K and one in ten over £345K. 68% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £203,500, sits in the £200–250K band
858 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,500 in 1995 to £215,000 in the last 12 months (£158,997 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
259 sales in the last 12 months, against 560 in 2003, the busiest year, and 181 in 2009. Sales fell by 58% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 31% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Newton-le-Willows costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Newton-le-Willows, 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
£80K
£84K
£178K
£172K
£208K
£236K
£343K
Semi-detached houses
£44K
£57K
£117K
£120K
£134K
£167K
£220K
Terraced houses
£32K
£38K
£93K
£96K
£104K
£127K
£173K
Flats and maisonettes
£23K
£43K
£99K
£75K
£67K
£90K
£105K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 37% in 2019
2,350 new homes have been sold in Newton-le-Willows since 1995; the share peaked at 37% in 2019.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
48% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 45% sold leasehold in Newton-le-Willows. 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
Vulcan Park Way is Newton-le-Willows’s busiest street, with 26 sales in three years
58 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 15 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
Vulcan Park Way
WA12
26
£226,000
Mixed
2
Wargrave Road
WA12
25
£150,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Brimstone Drive
WA12
22
£265,000
Mixed
4
Birley Street
WA12
17
£232,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Market Street
WA12
17
£170,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Catherine Way
WA12
16
£155,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Garston Crescent
WA12
13
£262,500
Mostly detached houses
8
Crow Lane East
WA12
12
£185,250
Mixed
9
Mercer Street
WA12
12
£174,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Borron Road
WA12
12
£106,000
Mixed
11
Park Road South
WA12
11
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Peninsula Drive
WA12
11
£250,000
Mixed
13
Matilda Close
WA12
11
£220,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Siddeley Drive
WA12
10
£181,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Crow Lane West
WA12
10
£154,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Banastre Drive: £444,000
Newton-le-Willows median£204K
Banastre Drive£444K
Ashton Road£363K
Park Road North£355K
Victoria Road£341K
Rob Lane£340K
Cheapest streets
Mill Meadow: £98,500
Newton-le-Willows median£204K
Mill Meadow£99K
Sturgess Street£100K
Borron Road£106K
Frawley Avenue£108K
Haydock Street£113K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.5 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 Merseyside
Newton-le-Willows is the 16th most expensive of 25 towns in Merseyside
Newton-le-Willows is in the middle of Merseyside’s 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 Newton-le-Willows
What is the average house price in Newton-le-Willows?
The median home in Newton-le-Willows sold for £203,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 858 standard sales (£215,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £330,000, semi-detached houses £215,000, terraced houses £165,000 and flats and maisonettes £110,000.
Are house prices going up in Newton-le-Willows?
The median was £206,250 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£196,000), and £215,000 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 Newton-le-Willows each year?
259 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 411 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Newton-le-Willows?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Banastre Drive (WA12, £444,000), Ashton Road (WA12, £362,500) and Park Road North (WA12, £355,000).
Is Newton-le-Willows expensive for Merseyside?
Newton-le-Willows is the 16th most expensive of 25 towns of 2,500 or more in Merseyside 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.
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