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Wistaston market report CW2 5, Crewe
The standing CW2 5 (Wistaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,094 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW2 5 (Crewe) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CW2 5 (Crewe) home changed hands for £280,000 in 2026 (median of 72 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £327,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,094 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CW2 5 is one sector of CW2 (Crewe): 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 CW2 5 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 buyers actually paid in CW2 5
In the CW2 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £280,000, from 72 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £327,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
CW2 5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CW2 5 at roughly £2,760 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CW2 5 2% below the country at large.
A typical CW2 5 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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 72 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 242 |
| 2024 | £251,200 | £267,077 | 209 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 225 |
| 2022 | £270,800 | £317,544 | 328 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 414 |
| 2020 | £233,000 | £302,322 | 251 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 289 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 253 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 272 |
| 2016 | £203,800 | £285,118 | 250 |
| 2015 | £182,500 | £257,873 | 187 |
| 2014 | £187,500 | £266,002 | 151 |
| 2013 | £194,500 | £279,866 | 129 |
| 2012 | £160,500 | £236,236 | 104 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 112 |
| 2010 | £207,000 | £324,629 | 105 |
| 2009 | £167,700 | £269,579 | 124 |
| 2008 | £174,000 | £285,223 | 106 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 219 |
| 2006 | £188,200 | £326,691 | 262 |
| 2005 | £201,500 | £358,589 | 190 |
| 2004 | £262,500 | £476,751 | 228 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 199 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 220 |
| 2001 | £111,500 | £214,353 | 163 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 155 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 151 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 98 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 163 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 113 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical CW2 5 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 41% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW2 5 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 2004 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−23.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.8% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 72 CW2 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 215 sales a year recently, against 205 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market CW2 5 is
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 CW2, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around CW2 5
CW2 5 falls under Cheshire East, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £692 a month here against £1,603 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £280,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
What people ask about CW2 5 (Wistaston)
Is CW2 5 (Wistaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW2 5 (Wistaston)?
Are property prices falling in CW2 5 (Wistaston)?
Are CW2 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
CW2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 174 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW2 district, not just CW2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"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 CW2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CW
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CW area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CW2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CW2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW2 6 | £240,000 | 49 |
| CW2 7 | £147,500 | 35 |
| CW2 8 | £222,500 | 70 |
Zoom out to the full CW2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CW2 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CW2 5'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 CW2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW2 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CW2 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.