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Willaston market report CW5, Nantwich
The standing CW5 (Willaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 19,508 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW5 (Nantwich) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CW5 (Nantwich) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 237 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £333,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,040 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,508 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CW5 is a postcode district covering Nantwich, Willaston, Sound in Nantwich. 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 CW5 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 CW5
237 sales were registered in CW5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £295,000. The mean works out at £333,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CW5
A square metre of CW5 home has cost about £3,040 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CW5 4% above the country at large.
CW5's median sold price, 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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 237 |
| 2025 | £292,800 | £299,802 | 684 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 620 |
| 2023 | £293,000 | £321,935 | 586 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 740 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 947 |
| 2020 | £268,000 | £347,736 | 647 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 685 |
| 2018 | £246,000 | £327,923 | 630 |
| 2017 | £228,400 | £311,515 | 638 |
| 2016 | £218,000 | £304,984 | 687 |
| 2015 | £203,000 | £286,839 | 622 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 622 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 532 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 412 |
| 2011 | £174,400 | £263,277 | 406 |
| 2010 | £176,000 | £276,013 | 409 |
| 2009 | £174,500 | £280,510 | 437 |
| 2008 | £178,500 | £292,599 | 354 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 820 |
| 2006 | £184,000 | £319,400 | 741 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 727 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 910 |
| 2003 | £141,600 | £260,862 | 899 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 735 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £190,322 | 688 |
| 2000 | £88,500 | £173,681 | 687 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 609 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 491 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 502 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 461 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 343 |
In cash terms the typical CW5 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW5 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 (+22.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.8% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CW5
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 | £450,000 | 91 | 7,400 |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | 62 | 5,188 |
| Terraced | £235,000 | 53 | 4,806 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 31 | 2,114 |
Sales activity in CW5
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 536 sales completed in CW5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 776 sales a year before the financial crisis and 573 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.
The shape of the CW5 market
Among the 12 measurable districts of its area, CW5 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around CW5
For renting purposes CW5 sits in Cheshire East. The ONS average private rent there is £979 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £692 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,603 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £979 a month is £11,748 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
What people ask about CW5 (Willaston)
Are property prices falling in CW5 (Willaston)?
Is CW5 (Willaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW5 (Willaston)?
Where do CW5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
CW5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CW5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 154 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the CW5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CW5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CW area, from the Land Registry record. 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
CW5 ranks 10 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 CW5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW5 5 | £200,000 | 65 |
| CW5 6 | £312,500 | 71 |
| CW5 7 | £360,000 | 76 |
| CW5 8 | £400,000 | 25 |
How CW5 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 (this report) | £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 CW5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CW5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CW5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CW5 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.