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Holmes Chapel market report CW4 8, Crewe
The CW4 8 (Holmes Chapel) 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: 2,195 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW4 8 (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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW4 8 (Crewe) came in at £470,000, out of 25 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £540,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,690 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,195 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CW4 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CW4 (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 CW4 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.
What buyers actually paid in CW4 8
The 2026 median for CW4 8 is £470,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £540,600, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in CW4 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CW4 8 sales average about £3,690 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CW4 8 runs 65% above it.
The price of a typical CW4 8 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £530,000 | £542,674 | 74 |
| 2024 | £442,500 | £470,468 | 59 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 63 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 67 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 103 |
| 2020 | £366,000 | £474,893 | 81 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 91 |
| 2018 | £343,000 | £457,225 | 121 |
| 2017 | £400,000 | £545,560 | 119 |
| 2016 | £391,000 | £547,013 | 99 |
| 2015 | £351,500 | £496,670 | 94 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 118 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 47 |
| 2012 | £302,500 | £445,242 | 30 |
| 2011 | £354,800 | £535,612 | 32 |
| 2010 | £312,500 | £490,080 | 29 |
| 2009 | £370,000 | £594,778 | 41 |
| 2008 | £386,200 | £633,063 | 28 |
| 2007 | £375,000 | £636,104 | 61 |
| 2006 | £329,800 | £572,491 | 68 |
| 2005 | £346,500 | £616,630 | 65 |
| 2004 | £322,500 | £585,723 | 64 |
| 2003 | £292,500 | £538,856 | 57 |
| 2002 | £233,000 | £438,387 | 66 |
| 2001 | £188,800 | £362,958 | 72 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 49 |
| 1999 | £187,000 | £372,681 | 93 |
| 1998 | £158,000 | £318,934 | 126 |
| 1997 | £135,000 | £276,858 | 88 |
| 1996 | £103,000 | £217,222 | 39 |
| 1995 | £87,500 | £190,212 | 26 |
In cash terms the typical CW4 8 home went from £87,500 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CW4 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 1997 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−15.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW4 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.3% | −13.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CW4 8
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CW4 8 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 58 sales a year recently, against 63 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around CW4 8
CW4 8 falls under Cheshire East, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £692 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,603, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £470,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 2.5% 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.
How CW4 8 trades
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within CW4, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CW4 8 (Holmes Chapel)
Is CW4 8 (Holmes Chapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW4 8 (Holmes Chapel)?
Are property prices falling in CW4 8 (Holmes Chapel)?
What happens to CW4 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CW4 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 7 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW4 district, not just CW4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 CW4 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CW: the cost
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CW4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CW4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW4 7 | £352,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full CW4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CW4 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CW4 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 CW4 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW4 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CW4 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CW4 8 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.
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.