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Wistaston market report CW2 8, Crewe
The standing CW2 8 (Wistaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,895 HM Land Registry entries for CW2 8 (Crewe), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CW2 8 (Crewe) sold for £222,500 in 2026, the median of 70 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £248,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,570 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,895 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CW2 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CW2 (Crewe). 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 CW2 8 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.
Today's CW2 8 prices, from the sold record
70 sales were registered in CW2 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £222,500. The mean works out at £248,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CW2 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of CW2 8 home has cost about £2,570 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CW2 8 sits 22% below the national market.
CW2 8's median sold price, 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 | £222,500 | £222,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 231 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 194 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 174 |
| 2022 | £235,800 | £276,502 | 236 |
| 2021 | £216,000 | £273,484 | 330 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 237 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 233 |
| 2018 | £162,000 | £215,949 | 190 |
| 2017 | £149,000 | £203,221 | 193 |
| 2016 | £139,000 | £194,462 | 198 |
| 2015 | £148,500 | £209,831 | 248 |
| 2014 | £133,600 | £189,535 | 196 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 171 |
| 2012 | £128,200 | £188,694 | 152 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 139 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 111 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 136 |
| 2008 | £123,800 | £202,934 | 130 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 261 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 271 |
| 2005 | £129,800 | £230,992 | 224 |
| 2004 | £123,000 | £223,392 | 250 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 258 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 341 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 331 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 287 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 237 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 209 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 253 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 190 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 214 |
In cash terms the typical CW2 8 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £222,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW2 8 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 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW2 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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 CW2 8
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, 70 sales completed in CW2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 278 sales a year before the financial crisis and 181 a year over the last five. 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 homes rent for around CW2 8
For renting purposes CW2 8 sits in Cheshire East. The ONS average private rent there is £979 a month (May 2026). 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 £222,500 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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 kind of market CW2 8 is
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.
Asked and answered: CW2 8 (Wistaston)
Is CW2 8 (Wistaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW2 8 (Wistaston)?
Are property prices falling in CW2 8 (Wistaston)?
Are CW2 8 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 3% 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.
On the market in CW2 today
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Grasmere Avenue, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
- Burnet Close, Shavington, Crewe, Ches...
- Blunstone Close, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in CW
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CW area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CW2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CW2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW2 5 | £280,000 | 72 |
| CW2 6 | £240,000 | 49 |
| CW2 7 | £147,500 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full CW2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CW2 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CW2 8'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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW2 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CW2 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CW2 8 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.