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North Rode market report CW12 2, Congleton
The CW12 2 (North Rode) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,063 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW12 2 (Congleton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW12 2 (Congleton) came in at £306,000, out of 42 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £357,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,063 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CW12 2 is a single group of streets within CW12 (Congleton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CW12 2 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.
What CW12 2 homes really sell for
Take the 42 registered 2026 sales in CW12 2 and the middle price, the median, is £306,000. The mean lands at £357,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in CW12 2
By floor space, homes in CW12 2 have sold for about £3,110 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CW12 2 7% above the national figure.
CW12 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £306,000 | £306,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 163 |
| 2024 | £364,500 | £387,538 | 196 |
| 2023 | £344,000 | £377,972 | 149 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 211 |
| 2021 | £298,700 | £378,193 | 170 |
| 2020 | £238,800 | £309,848 | 138 |
| 2019 | £247,500 | £324,413 | 144 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 131 |
| 2017 | £222,500 | £303,468 | 99 |
| 2016 | £184,800 | £258,537 | 81 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 104 |
| 2014 | £187,800 | £266,427 | 103 |
| 2013 | £176,700 | £254,254 | 84 |
| 2012 | £161,500 | £237,708 | 66 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 47 |
| 2010 | £158,000 | £247,785 | 35 |
| 2009 | £152,000 | £244,341 | 41 |
| 2008 | £147,200 | £241,292 | 46 |
| 2007 | £164,500 | £279,038 | 58 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 99 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 85 |
| 2004 | £144,000 | £261,532 | 78 |
| 2003 | £120,800 | £222,543 | 78 |
| 2002 | £99,500 | £187,208 | 128 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 113 |
| 2000 | £68,500 | £134,431 | 72 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 70 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 63 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 66 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 59 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 44 |
In cash terms the typical CW12 2 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £306,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 156%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW12 2 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 2001 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−16.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW12 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.2% | −18.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 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.
Sales activity in CW12 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in CW12 2. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 152 sales a year over the last five years against 89 before the financial crisis. 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.
Rents around CW12 2
The local authority for CW12 2 is Cheshire East, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £692 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,603 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£979 a month is £11,748 a year, which against the £306,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How CW12 2 trades
This is a thin market: 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within CW12, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CW12 2 (North Rode)
Is CW12 2 (North Rode) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW12 2 (North Rode)?
Are property prices falling in CW12 2 (North Rode)?
What happens to CW12 2 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in CW12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 18 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW12 district, not just CW12 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 43% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CW12 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CW: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CW area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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.
Other sectors in CW12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CW12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW12 1 | £175,000 | 33 |
| 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.
Selling in CW12 2? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CW12 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CW12 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CW12 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW12 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CW12 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.