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North Rode market report CW12 3, Congleton
The CW12 3 (North Rode) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,487 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW12 3 (Congleton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CW12 3 (Congleton) sold for £285,000 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £339,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,000 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,487 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CW12 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CW12 (Congleton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CW12 3 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 a home in CW12 3 sells for
Across 46 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CW12 3 home went for £285,000. The mean is £339,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in CW12 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CW12 3 sales average about £3,000 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CW12 3 trades 0% above the country as a whole.
A typical CW12 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 191 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 144 |
| 2023 | £278,500 | £306,003 | 134 |
| 2022 | £303,500 | £355,888 | 172 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 229 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 161 |
| 2019 | £238,500 | £312,616 | 165 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 163 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 205 |
| 2016 | £188,000 | £263,014 | 149 |
| 2015 | £181,200 | £256,036 | 158 |
| 2014 | £208,000 | £295,084 | 157 |
| 2013 | £172,500 | £248,210 | 143 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 123 |
| 2011 | £176,000 | £265,692 | 92 |
| 2010 | £197,000 | £308,947 | 104 |
| 2009 | £158,000 | £253,986 | 99 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 109 |
| 2007 | £183,600 | £311,437 | 230 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 235 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 167 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 232 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 209 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 242 |
| 2001 | £103,000 | £198,012 | 228 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 251 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 215 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 211 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 199 |
| 1996 | £75,500 | £159,226 | 207 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical CW12 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 119%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CW12 3 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 1996 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CW12 3
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.
CW12 3 recorded 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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 CW12 3
The local authority for CW12 3 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.
Against the £285,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
The shape of the CW12 3 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CW12 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on CW12 3 (North Rode)
How much did a house sell for in CW12 3 (North Rode)?
Are property prices falling in CW12 3 (North Rode)?
Is CW12 3 (North Rode) a good place to buy a house?
Will CW12 3 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
CW12's current homes for sale
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 3: 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CW area, 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 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 2 | £306,000 | 42 |
| 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 a home in CW12 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW12 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW12 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW12 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CW12 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW12 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CW12 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CW12 3 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.