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North Rode market report CW12 1, Congleton
The standing CW12 1 (North Rode) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,743 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW12 1 (Congleton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW12 1 (Congleton) came in at £175,000, out of 33 registered, down 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £204,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,560 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,743 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CW12 1 is one sector of CW12 (Congleton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CW12 1 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 CW12 1
The 2026 median for CW12 1 is £175,000, taken from 33 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £204,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in CW12 1
Per square metre, CW12 1 homes have averaged around £2,560 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CW12 1 39% below the national figure.
A typical CW12 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 120 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 107 |
| 2023 | £179,000 | £196,677 | 63 |
| 2022 | £192,500 | £225,728 | 100 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 107 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 101 |
| 2019 | £247,000 | £323,758 | 110 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 121 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 121 |
| 2016 | £141,000 | £197,260 | 85 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 79 |
| 2014 | £143,500 | £203,580 | 84 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 61 |
| 2012 | £107,800 | £158,668 | 56 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 57 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 63 |
| 2009 | £119,200 | £191,615 | 52 |
| 2008 | £126,200 | £206,868 | 70 |
| 2007 | £154,200 | £261,566 | 95 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 146 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 83 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 99 |
| 2003 | £87,000 | £160,275 | 94 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 93 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 85 |
| 2000 | £55,800 | £109,508 | 82 |
| 1999 | £44,500 | £88,686 | 81 |
| 1998 | £44,200 | £89,221 | 82 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 80 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 69 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical CW12 1 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 46% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CW12 1 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 2018 (+42.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−31.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −31.4% | −33.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.5% | −8.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CW12 1 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 85 sales a year recently, against 97 a year before 2008. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How CW12 1 trades
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CW12 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CW12 district median, CW12 1 sits 35% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CW12 1
The local authority for CW12 1 is Cheshire East, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.
Common questions on CW12 1 (North Rode)
Are property prices falling in CW12 1 (North Rode)?
Is CW12 1 (North Rode) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW12 1 (North Rode)?
Where do CW12 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CW12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 18 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW12 district, not just CW12 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
43% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Forge Lane, Congleton, CW12, Congleton
- Somerford Hall, Somerford, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12
- Belgrave Avenue, Congleton, Cheshire,...
"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 CW12 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.
What another bedroom costs in CW
Real sold prices by size across the CW area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CW12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CW12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW12 2 | £306,000 | 42 |
| CW12 3 | £285,000 | 46 |
| CW12 4 | £269,000 | 79 |
Zoom out to the full CW12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW12 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CW12 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CW12 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working CW12 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW12 1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW12 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CW12 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.