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Holmes Chapel market report CW4, Crewe
The CW4 (Holmes Chapel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,213 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW4 (Crewe) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CW4 (Crewe) is £400,000, from 71 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £430,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,500 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,213 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CW4 is the postcode district covering Holmes Chapel, Goostrey, Cranage 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 CW4 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 CW4
The CW4 median stands at £400,000 for 2026, built from 71 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £430,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CW4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CW4 sales average about £3,500 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CW4 40% above the country at large.
A typical CW4 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £389,000 | £398,302 | 204 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 202 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 195 |
| 2022 | £346,500 | £406,311 | 264 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 283 |
| 2020 | £347,800 | £451,278 | 190 |
| 2019 | £340,500 | £446,314 | 212 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 248 |
| 2017 | £320,500 | £437,130 | 246 |
| 2016 | £281,500 | £393,821 | 226 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 201 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 234 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 141 |
| 2012 | £231,500 | £340,739 | 110 |
| 2011 | £239,000 | £360,798 | 108 |
| 2010 | £209,000 | £327,766 | 107 |
| 2009 | £231,200 | £371,656 | 114 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 83 |
| 2007 | £238,000 | £403,714 | 261 |
| 2006 | £234,200 | £406,541 | 210 |
| 2005 | £239,800 | £426,747 | 158 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 197 |
| 2003 | £181,200 | £333,814 | 214 |
| 2002 | £140,600 | £264,538 | 265 |
| 2001 | £132,000 | £253,763 | 199 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 183 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 233 |
| 1998 | £104,000 | £209,931 | 265 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 273 |
| 1996 | £82,500 | £173,989 | 170 |
| 1995 | £82,500 | £179,342 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical CW4 home went from £82,500 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CW4 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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, 55% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £496,500 against £118,500 for a flat, 4.2 times the price.
Median by property type, CW4
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 | £495,000 | 33 | 3,396 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 27 | 1,635 |
| Terraced | £279,000 | 7 | 608 |
| Flats | £118,500 (2025) | – | 553 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 145 CW4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 187 sales a year recently, against 211 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.
Rents around CW4
The local authority for CW4 is Cheshire East, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£979 a month is £11,748 a year, which against the £400,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the CW4 market
Only 145 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CW4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. CW4 sits 2 of 12 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about CW4 (Holmes Chapel)
Is CW4 (Holmes Chapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW4 (Holmes Chapel)?
Are property prices falling in CW4 (Holmes Chapel)?
Are CW4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 CW4 right now
Everything above is what homes in CW4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 7 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 56% above the CW4 median sold price.
40% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
CW4 ranks 3 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CW4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CW4 7 | £352,500 | 46 |
| CW4 8 | £470,000 | 25 |
How CW4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CW6 | £408,400 | -6% |
| CW4 (this report) | £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 | £230,500 | +9% |
| CW7 | £214,000 | +20% |
| CW1 | £195,000 | +10% |
Before you sell in CW4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
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See every individual CW4 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.
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.