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Where the LHA reaches · October 2026

Wigan

Of 1,851 homes advertised to rent in Wigan in the six months to 31 October 2026, 21 (1.1%) could be let within the Local Housing Allowance for their size.

Of 1,707 homes for sale at the end of October 2026, 33 would return 7% gross or more a year if let at the LHA.

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By size · the six months to 31 October 2026

Each size against its own LHA rate.

Size Homes to rent Within the LHA Gap at the 30th percentile For sale Work at 7%
1 bed and studios2252 (0.9%)£225587
2 bed87712 (1.4%)£25047621
3 bed6567 (1.1%)£3058414
4 bed930 (0%)£5253321
All sizes1,85121 (1.1%)£2751,70733

A dash means too few homes to give a figure (a share needs 10 judged homes, a gap 20); the count is still shown. Studios are read as one bedroom; homes of five bedrooms or more are not read, as the LHA has no rate for them. 10 homes were counted but not judged because their rental market area or rate was not known.

The trend · June 2024 to October 2026

Month by month, as published.

Each point is one completed month, read over the six months before it. A month's figures are published once and never changed.

Share of homes advertised to rent within the LHA, all sizes
0%10%Jun 24: 1.2%Jul 24: 0.6%Aug 24: 0.6%Sep 24: 0.7%Oct 24: 0.6%Nov 24: 0.7%Dec 24: 0.8%Jan 25: 1.1%Feb 25: 1.1%Mar 25: 0.9%Apr 25: 0.9%May 25: 0.7%Jun 25: 0.6%Jul 25: 0.4%Aug 25: 0.3%Sep 25: 0.5%Oct 25: 0.4%Nov 25: 0.5%Dec 25: 0.5%Jan 26: 0.3%Feb 26: 0.3%Mar 26: 0.4%Apr 26: 0.3%May 26: 0.3%Jun 26: 0.3%Jul 26: 0.3%Aug 26: 0.3%Sep 26: 0.6%Oct 26: 1.1%Jun 24Aug 25Oct 26
Homes for sale that would work at 7% at the LHA, all sizes
040Jun 24: 40Jul 24: 36Aug 24: 35Sep 24: 28Oct 24: 34Nov 24: 19Dec 24: 16Jan 25: 14Feb 25: 15Mar 25: 18Apr 25: 19May 25: 27Jun 25: 25Jul 25: 26Aug 25: 25Sep 25: 21Oct 25: 20Nov 25: 20Dec 25: 21Jan 26: 21Feb 26: 28Mar 26: 31Apr 26: 27May 26: 29Jun 26: 27Jul 26: 32Aug 26: 33Sep 26: 35Oct 26: 33Jun 24Aug 25Oct 26
Month Homes to rent Within the LHA 2-bed gap 3-bed gap For sale Work at 7%
October 20261,8511.1%£250£3051,70733
September 20261,6530.6%£250£3051,63635
August 20261,5720.3%£250£3051,51633
July 20261,7160.3%£250£3051,51532
June 20261,6690.3%£250£3051,49027
May 20261,5820.3%£250£3051,50029
April 20261,5160.3%£250£3001,55727
March 20261,4960.4%£250£3001,39431
February 20261,4320.3%£250£3051,25128
January 20261,2680.3%£250£30588421
December 20251,2130.5%£250£30084321
November 20251,2530.5%£250£30186820
October 20251,3540.4%£250£30592120
September 20251,2920.5%£250£30597721
August 20251,2640.3%£250£30593425
July 20251,2240.4%£250£30598626
June 20251,2100.6%£250£30097525
May 20251,1260.7%£250£3001,01327
April 20251,0630.9%£250£30079519
March 20251,0930.9%£250£30076118
February 20251,0971.1%£250£28082815
January 20251,1331.1%£250£28088814
December 20241,1590.8%£250£28099316
November 20241,2120.7%£225£2551,14019
October 20241,2470.6%£225£2551,79834
September 20241,2410.7%£200£2551,74428
August 20241,2680.6%£200£2801,67035
July 20241,2490.6%£200£2801,60736
June 20241,2341.2%£195£2551,46540
Reading the figures

What these numbers are, and are not.

  • Advertised, not agreed. Asking rents and asking prices as the portals showed them. Rents finally agreed usually sit below advertised rents, so the true gap is likely to be smaller; prices paid sit below asking, so slightly more homes may work.
  • Each home against its own rate. The LHA for the home's size in its own broad rental market area, in force at the month's end. Where Wigan spans more than one area, each home is read against the right one.
  • A screen, not a return. "Work at 7%" is twelve months at the LHA divided by the asking price, before service charges, voids, repairs or purchase costs. It says which homes are worth looking at, not what they would earn.
  • Counted, never modelled. No figure on this page is estimated or produced by AI. The full method, the floors below which a figure is withheld, and the sources are on the index page.

Cite as: Viiyoo, Where the LHA reaches: Wigan, October 2026, www.viiyoo.com/lha/wigan. If Wigan holds achieved rents and would like them shown beside these figures, labelled as the council's, write to us.

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Behind the counts

The 33 homes themselves

The index counts the homes for sale in Wigan that would work at LHA rents. A Viiyoo buying plan names them, costs each one after grant, checks its lease, flood risk and licensing, and comes back as a pack a cabinet can follow. The first brief is free, for up to 25 homes.

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