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Wistaston market report CW2, Crewe
The standing CW2 (Wistaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 23,510 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW2 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW2 (Crewe) came in at £230,500, out of 226 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £261,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,450 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 23,510 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CW2 is a postcode district covering Crewe (south), Wistaston, Woolstanwood in Crewe. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CW2 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
Across 226 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CW2 home went for £230,500. The mean is £261,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CW2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CW2 sales average about £2,450 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CW2 sits 19% below the national market.
The price of a typical CW2 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,500 | £230,500 | 226 |
| 2025 | £226,400 | £231,814 | 716 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 601 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 627 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 805 |
| 2021 | £212,000 | £268,419 | 1,029 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 653 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 745 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 696 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 718 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 749 |
| 2015 | £148,000 | £209,124 | 717 |
| 2014 | £142,000 | £201,452 | 599 |
| 2013 | £135,800 | £195,403 | 532 |
| 2012 | £128,000 | £188,400 | 462 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 452 |
| 2010 | £134,700 | £211,244 | 434 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 472 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 568 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 1,040 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 1,073 |
| 2005 | £123,000 | £218,890 | 864 |
| 2004 | £112,500 | £204,322 | 1,015 |
| 2003 | £87,200 | £160,644 | 1,006 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 1,172 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 1,088 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 912 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 800 |
| 1998 | £50,700 | £102,342 | 682 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 814 |
| 1996 | £46,700 | £98,488 | 614 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 629 |
In cash terms the typical CW2 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £230,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW2 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £347,500 against £105,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, CW2
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £347,500 | 89 | 7,832 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 79 | 8,922 |
| Terraced | £145,000 | 52 | 6,097 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 6 | 656 |
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CW2 recorded 526 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,021 sales a year before the financial crisis and 595 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.
Reading the CW2 market
In its area's price order CW2 comes 10 of 12, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around CW2
CW2 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 £230,500 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
Common questions on CW2 (Wistaston)
How much did a house sell for in CW2 (Wistaston)?
Are property prices falling in CW2 (Wistaston)?
Is CW2 (Wistaston) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CW2 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What is for sale in CW2 right now
Everything above is what homes in CW2 sold for. The live side of the market holds 174 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the CW2 median sold price.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Grasmere Avenue, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
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- Blunstone Close, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CW2 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.
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
CW2 ranks 8 of 12 in the CW area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside CW2, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW2 5 | £280,000 | 72 |
| CW2 6 | £240,000 | 49 |
| CW2 7 | £147,500 | 35 |
| CW2 8 | £222,500 | 70 |
How CW2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CW6 | £408,400 | -6% |
| CW4 | £400,000 | +14% |
| CW3 | £345,000 | +11% |
| CW5 | £295,000 | +5% |
| CW12 | £269,500 | +4% |
| CW11 | £266,200 | +11% |
| CW8 | £266,000 | +11% |
| CW10 | £255,000 | +24% |
| CW9 | £252,000 | +6% |
| CW2 (this report) | £230,500 | +9% |
| CW7 | £214,000 | +20% |
| CW1 | £195,000 | +10% |
Selling in CW2? 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'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CW2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CW2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CW2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.