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Crewe market report CW
The CW (Crewe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 186,027 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the CW postcode area (Crewe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical the CW postcode area (Crewe) home changed hands for £260,000 in 2026 (median of 2,096 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £295,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,780 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 186,027 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The figures for CW centred on Crewe run across 12 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where CW sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CW
The 2026 median for CW is £260,000, taken from 2,096 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £295,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CW
A square metre of CW home has cost about £2,780 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CW trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CW home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 2,096 |
| 2025 | £261,000 | £267,241 | 5,996 |
| 2024 | £253,500 | £269,523 | 5,448 |
| 2023 | £247,000 | £271,393 | 5,374 |
| 2022 | £249,000 | £291,981 | 6,845 |
| 2021 | £233,000 | £295,008 | 8,079 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 5,749 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 6,321 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 6,448 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 6,848 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 6,405 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 5,986 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 5,504 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 4,426 |
| 2012 | £148,000 | £217,838 | 3,641 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 3,503 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 3,441 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 3,323 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 3,513 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 7,332 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 7,618 |
| 2005 | £135,600 | £241,313 | 6,290 |
| 2004 | £132,000 | £239,738 | 7,757 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 7,894 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 8,443 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 7,529 |
| 2000 | £69,500 | £136,394 | 7,298 |
| 1999 | £63,500 | £126,552 | 6,601 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 5,558 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 5,630 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 4,833 |
| 1995 | £54,400 | £118,257 | 4,298 |
In cash terms the typical CW home went from £54,400 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+23.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £372,200 against £120,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, CW
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £372,200 | 784 | 69,869 |
| Semi-detached | £238,600 | 736 | 62,885 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 453 | 43,161 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 123 | 10,112 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 4,562 CW sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 7,520 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,152 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around CW
CW falls under Cheshire East, the local authority covering most of the CW area (parts fall under Cheshire West and Chester and Newcastle-under-Lyme, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £692 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,603, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CW (Crewe): the questions that come up
Is CW (Crewe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW (Crewe)?
Are property prices falling in CW (Crewe)?
Where do CW prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in CW today
Everything above is what homes in CW sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 951 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the CW median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Beltony Drive, CREWE, Cheshire, CW1
- Samuel Armstrong Way, Crewe, CW1, Crewe
- Grasmere Avenue, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CW home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in CW: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CW area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £260,000 | £365,000 (+40%) | £550,000 (+51%) | £788,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £205,000 (+17%) | £258,000 (+26%) | £362,495 (+41%) | £515,000 (+42%) |
| Terraced | £147,000 | £160,000 (+9%) | £190,000 (+19%) | £280,000 (+47%) | £545,000 (+95%) |
| Flat | £115,000 | £140,000 (+22%) | £190,000 (+36%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CW area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every CW district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CW6 Tarporley, Winsford Rural West | £408,400 | -6% | 76 |
| CW4 Holmes Chapel, Goostrey | £400,000 | +14% | 71 |
| CW3 Madeley, Betley | £345,000 | +11% | 46 |
| CW5 Nantwich, Willaston | £295,000 | +5% | 237 |
| CW12 Congleton, North Rode | £269,500 | +4% | 200 |
| CW11 Sandbach, Ettiley Heath | £266,200 | +11% | 170 |
| CW8 Northwich (west), Hartford | £266,000 | +11% | 282 |
| CW10 Middlewich, Winsford Rural East | £255,000 | +24% | 109 |
| CW9 Northwich (east), Wincham | £252,000 | +6% | 238 |
| CW2 Crewe (south), Wistaston | £230,500 | +9% | 226 |
| CW7 Winsford (Town), Wharton | £214,000 | +20% | 196 |
| CW1 Crewe (north), Haslington | £195,000 | +10% | 245 |
Selling in CW? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CW sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.