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Wellington Street, Warrington WA1

North West

£185,000

Listed on 17/09/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
2
Type
Semi Detached
Area
680 sqft

Features

  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This two-bedroom semi-detached house is offered with no onward chain and scope for modernisation. The ground floor includes an entrance hall, a living room and a fitted kitchen. Upstairs are two bedrooms and a family bathroom. Outside, the property has front and rear gardens, along with a driveway providing off-road parking. The listing describes the home as being close to local amenities, schools and parks. It is freehold and falls within Council Tax Band B.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

40out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity

Confidence: MEDIUM

This two-bedroom semi offers a clear, medium-scale modernisation project: the photographed interiors have consistently dated finishes, with an older kitchen and coloured bathroom suite, while the overgrown rear garden could be cleared and reshaped. The driveway and off-road parking are useful existing features, and there is no obvious major structural defect in the submitted photographs.

The main constraint is the price. At £272 per sq ft, the asking price is above the local average of £254, and adding the £30,000–£50,000 refurbishment range leaves the purchase-plus-works cost stretched against the local benchmark for a home of this floor area. That comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of the value after renovation, so the numbers make this a weak overall opportunity despite the scope to improve it.

Key opportunities

  • Refresh the dated kitchen and bathroom as part of a coherent modernisation.
  • Update the patterned carpets and wall and ceiling finishes across the photographed rooms.
  • Clear the overgrown rear garden and make better use of its enclosed space, shed and paved area.

Key risks

  • At the asking price, adding the £30,000–£50,000 works range puts purchase-plus-refurbishment costs well above the local average-value benchmark for this floor area; that benchmark is not a post-renovation valuation.

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Current average 2-year fixed rate is 4.45%

Current average variable rate is 6.60%

Monthly Repayments
£699
Based on a loan of £138,750 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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