Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,845 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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open CW3 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£382,500median sold price, 2026
+26%five-year change (cash)
119sales in the last 12 months
2.6%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in CW3 sells for
The 2026 median in CW3 is £382,500, from 26 registered sales; the mean, £382,700, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so CW3 trades 40% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CW3 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£382,500
£382,500
26
2025
£317,500
£317,500
160
2024
£335,000
£347,856
147
2023
£302,500
£324,611
146
2022
£295,000
£337,842
175
2021
£303,500
£375,296
242
2020
£272,500
£345,317
214
2019
£221,200
£283,169
256
2018
£254,000
£330,679
202
2017
£229,000
£305,039
178
2016
£249,000
£340,218
163
2015
£198,000
£273,240
135
2014
£235,000
£325,602
143
2013
£230,000
£323,218
136
2012
£195,000
£280,313
101
2011
£191,000
£281,603
102
2010
£200,000
£306,326
127
2009
£205,000
£321,843
119
2008
£212,500
£340,197
104
2007
£185,000
£306,483
181
2006
£197,000
£333,980
147
2005
£194,000
£337,179
144
2004
£165,000
£292,674
157
2003
£143,000
£257,288
137
2002
£112,800
£207,276
188
2001
£100,000
£187,755
160
2000
£85,500
£163,875
122
1999
£85,500
£166,417
159
1998
£81,000
£159,686
151
1997
£66,500
£133,193
166
1996
£58,200
£119,875
114
1995
£65,800
£139,698
143
In cash terms the typical CW3 home went from £65,800 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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 (−15.7%). 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)
+20.5%
+20.5%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.7%
+0.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.4%
+1.2%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.4%
+0.7%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CW3 recorded 119 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 131 sales a year recently, against 155 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 homes rent for 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 £382,500 median sold price, £826 a month is £9,912 a year, a gross yield of 2.6%: 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.
Will CW3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
CW3 ranks 1 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CW3, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.