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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/north-west

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House prices in the North West

Homes in the North West sold for a median of £225,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 182,453 standard sales.

That makes the North West the fourth cheapest of the nine English regions and Wales, 24% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£225,000182,453 standard sales
Middle half of prices£160,000 to £320,000
Change since 2016+52%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 52%, from £150,000 in 2016 to £227,500 in 2025, the biggest rise of the nine English regions and Wales.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Oldham, up 75%, and least in Fylde, up 28%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Trafford, at £375,000, and the cheapest was Burnley, at £136,500. The dearest median is 2.7 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Stockport and Cheshire East, and the next cheapest Blackpool and Hyndburn.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

13 of the 35 council areas had a median above £225,000, the figure for the North West as a whole. The most sales were in Cheshire East (12,994), Cheshire West and Chester (9,971), Manchester (8,718), Liverpool (8,629) and Wirral (8,389).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Trafford5,745 sales£375,000£4,118+4%
  2. Stockport8,320 sales£310,000£3,646+5%
  3. Cheshire East12,994 sales£300,000£3,421+2%
  4. Ribble Valley2,063 sales£277,000£2,963+6%
  5. Cheshire West and Chester9,971 sales£265,000£3,031+2%
  6. Warrington5,438 sales£260,000£3,211+3%
  7. Manchester8,718 sales£252,500£3,4570%
  8. Bury4,417 sales£250,000£2,880+6%
  9. West Lancashire3,005 sales£248,000£2,845+1%
  10. Fylde2,672 sales£245,000£2,888+1%
  11. Westmorland and Furness6,750 sales£240,000£2,9010%
  12. Salford6,442 sales£235,000£2,952+7%
  13. Sefton7,010 sales£230,000£2,600+3%
  14. Chorley3,186 sales£225,000£2,965+2%
  15. Wirral8,389 sales£222,500£2,533+4%
  16. South Ribble3,518 sales£220,000£2,635+7%
  17. Tameside5,096 sales£220,000£2,785+4%
  18. Rochdale4,640 sales£210,500£2,631+2%
  19. Oldham4,471 sales£210,000£2,783+7%
  20. Bolton6,302 sales£209,000£2,642+5%
  21. Lancaster3,639 sales£203,000£2,613+3%
  22. Preston3,805 sales£200,000£2,432−6%
  23. Wigan8,234 sales£200,000£2,498+5%
  24. Wyre3,670 sales£200,000£2,503+4%
  25. Knowsley3,308 sales£197,000£2,640+3%
  26. Halton2,826 sales£195,000£2,556+7%
  27. St. Helens4,336 sales£193,000£2,490+5%
  28. Rossendale2,031 sales£190,000£2,309+3%
  29. Liverpool8,629 sales£185,000£2,363+7%
  30. Cumberland8,327 sales£177,000£2,094+1%
  31. Blackburn with Darwen3,550 sales£172,000£2,194+3%
  32. Pendle2,556 sales£148,000£1,828+6%
  33. Hyndburn2,118 sales£140,000£1,933+7%
  34. Blackpool3,708 sales£139,000£1,601+2%
  35. Burnley2,569 sales£136,500£2,157+5%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the North West, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached40,225£370,000£293,000 to £490,000£3,230/m²from 1,648 sales
Semi-detached66,352£235,000£185,000 to £299,000£2,778/m²from 2,491 sales
Terraced55,821£166,000£127,000 to £225,000£2,188/m²from 1,939 sales
Flats and maisonettes20,055£150,000£110,000 to £213,000£2,611/m²from 598 sales

Semi-detached houses were the most common type sold in the North West, at 36% of sales, ahead of terraced houses at 31%.

Leasehold is more common here: 33% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Postcode areas in the North West

About these figures

The 182,453 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the North West by each home's postcode, and 6,676 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.