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Empress Drive, WN7

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£55,000
all recorded sales
Recorded sales
17
Distinct homes
4
Price range
£11,000£95,000
Sales recorded
2001 → 2021
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Empress Drive is a street almost entirely of semi-detached houses. The median sale price is £55,000, about 65% below the typical WN7 sale. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; WN7 prices as a whole have been rising. HM Land Registry records 17 sales across 4 homes since 2001 — the street turns over frequently.

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Empress Drive prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 17 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianWN7 district trend
£0£50k£100k£150k£200k200520102015202020252001: £17,500 median · 1 sale2003: £20,000 median · 3 sales2005: £65,000 median · 3 sales2007: £94,000 median · 1 sale2008: £49,000 median · 1 sale2010: £75,000 median · 1 sale2015: £31,580 median · 1 sale2016: £58,000 median · 2 sales2017: £50,000 median · 1 sale2019: £72,500 median · 2 sales2021: £95,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the WN7 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Empress Drive compares

Empress Drive against the WN7 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Tiverton Avenue£215k · 77
Hulme Gardens£196k · 92
Bowden Green Drive£185k · 65
Holden Road£175k · 70
St Helens Road£170k · 99
Mather Lane£130k · 127
Wigan Road£119k · 76
Hope Street£100k · 67
Empress Drive£55k · 17*

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£55,000
median · all recorded sales
WN7 district
£154,995
median · last 8 years · street -65%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Empress Drive's £55,000 median sits about 65% below WN7's £154,995.

Street and WN7 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Every recorded sale on Empress Drive

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
27 Jun 202523 · WN7 2UNnon-standardSemi-detached£120,000
16 Aug 202423 · WN7 2UNnon-standardSemi-detached£131,000
25 Mar 20217 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£95,000
13 Jun 20191 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£80,000
31 May 201938 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£65,000
13 Oct 201740 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£50,000
22 Aug 201638 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£63,000
24 Jun 20161 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£53,000
19 Jun 20151 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£31,580
30 Jul 20107 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£75,000
29 Sept 20087 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£49,000
10 Aug 20071 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£94,000
9 Dec 200538 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£65,000
25 Nov 20051 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£88,500
5 Apr 200538 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£55,000
25 Apr 20037 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£22,500
9 Apr 20037 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£20,000
14 Feb 20037 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£11,000
14 Sept 200138 · WN7 2UNSemi-detached£17,500

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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More streets in WN7

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider WN7 area guide.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.