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Madeley market report CW3, Crewe
The CW3 (Madeley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,565 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW3 (Crewe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 46 registered 2026 sales put the CW3 (Crewe) median at £345,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £376,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,565 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CW3 is the postcode district covering Madeley, Betley, Woore in Crewe. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CW3 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.
The going rate for a home in CW3
In the CW3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £345,000, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £376,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CW3
By floor space, homes in CW3 have sold for about £2,880 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CW3 21% above the country at large.
A typical CW3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £316,500 | £324,068 | 140 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 126 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 130 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 151 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 217 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 187 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 168 |
| 2018 | £254,000 | £338,587 | 172 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 158 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 141 |
| 2015 | £194,500 | £274,829 | 132 |
| 2014 | £238,000 | £337,645 | 141 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 134 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 101 |
| 2011 | £191,000 | £288,337 | 102 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 127 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 119 |
| 2008 | £212,500 | £348,332 | 104 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 181 |
| 2006 | £197,000 | £341,967 | 147 |
| 2005 | £194,000 | £345,242 | 144 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 157 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 137 |
| 2002 | £112,800 | £212,232 | 188 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 160 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 122 |
| 1999 | £85,500 | £170,397 | 159 |
| 1998 | £81,000 | £163,504 | 151 |
| 1997 | £66,500 | £136,378 | 166 |
| 1996 | £58,200 | £122,741 | 114 |
| 1995 | £65,800 | £143,039 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical CW3 home went from £65,800 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 141%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CW3 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 2003 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−18.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.0% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £387,500 against £159,200 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, CW3
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 | £425,000 | 29 | 2,370 |
| Semi-detached | £247,500 | 10 | 1,249 |
| Terraced | £196,200 | 6 | 736 |
| Flats | £159,200 (2025) | – | 185 |
How many homes change hands in CW3
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 106 CW3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. 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 CW3
CW3 falls under Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £826 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £574 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,301, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Newcastle-under-Lyme
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £345,000 median sold price, £826 a month is £9,912 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How CW3 trades
Only 106 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CW3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Among the 12 measurable districts of its area, CW3 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
CW3 (Madeley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CW3 (Madeley)?
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What happens to CW3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in CW3 right now
Everything above is what homes in CW3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 21 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% below the CW3 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Pastoral Close, Madeley, Crewe, Staff...
- Church View, CREWE, Cheshire, CW3
- Wrinehill, Crewe, Staffordshire, Crewe
"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 CW3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CW prices by size
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CW3 ranks 4 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.
Five-year change in the median, CW area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CW3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CW3 0 | £346,500 | 14 |
| CW3 9 | £345,000 | 32 |
How CW3 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 (this report) | £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 | £230,500 | +9% |
| CW7 | £214,000 | +20% |
| CW1 | £195,000 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in CW3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CW3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CW3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CW3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual CW3 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.