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Warrington’s fastest and slowest house sales markets

By Hannah Skentelbery on 7th February 2024 1:49 pm Life Style

The latest data, highlighting the fastest and slowest house sales markets, reveals that house sale transactions in Warrington are averaging 123.69 days to complete over the last year. Among the quickest areas for property sales currently are Lymm (WA13), Altrincham (WA14), and Runcorn (WA7).

Professional house buying firm Property Solvers’ speed of sale tool has revealed that it’s taking an average of 17.67 weeks to sell a property across Warrington.

Updated monthly, the latest dataset analysed over 1,089 property sales across the region between February 2023 and February 2024.

The statistics track the moment a property is listed on the UK’s leading property portals to the point it’s marked as officially ‘sold’ at the HM Land Registry.

As shown in the table below, properties were selling the fastest in Lymm (WA13), Altrincham (WA14) and Runcorn (WA7) adopting a minimum number of 10 property sales in a given area. In the top 5 areas, Property Solvers revealed that homes took 115.40 days (16.49 weeks) to sell on average.


Warrington’s Fastest Areas to Sell a Property (February 2023 to February 2024)
Area	Postcode	Average No. of Days to Sell	No. of Properties
Lymm	WA13	107	14
Altrincham	WA14	110	49
Runcorn	WA7	119	93
Widnes	WA8	120	128
St. Helens	WA10	121	75

Homes were selling the slowest in the Frodsham (WA6), Warrington (WA3) and Altrincham (WA15) postcodes (also sampling a minimum data set of 10 property sales). In the bottom 5 postcodes, the data showed that properties were taking 131.40 days (18.77 weeks) to sell on average.


Warrington’s Slowest Areas to Sell a Property (February 2023 to February 2024)
Area	Postcode	Average No. of Days to Sell	No. of Properties
Frodsham	WA6	140	18
Warrington	WA3	131	67
Altrincham	WA15	130	85
St. Helens	WA11	129	58
Warrington	WA2	127	56

Ruban Selvanayagam of Property Solvers commented: “whilst we’re starting to see some noticeable improvements into 2024, the continued pressures on the mortgage sector and buyers’ ability to secure the right kind of finance has resulted in delays with sales completing,”

The co-founder of the Warrington sell house fast company concludes: “combined with the recognised ‘snail pace’ nature of the conveyancing process, it’s likely that these trends are likely to remain for some time.”