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Bowdon market report WA14 1, Altrincham
The standing WA14 1 (Bowdon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,059 HM Land Registry entries for WA14 1 (Altrincham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WA14 1 (Altrincham) home changed hands for £330,800 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £330,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,059 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA14 1 is one sector of WA14 (Altrincham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WA14 1 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 WA14 1
Across 30 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA14 1 home went for £330,800. The mean is £330,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
WA14 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of WA14 1 home has cost about £4,080 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 WA14 1 16% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WA14 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,800 | £330,800 | 30 |
| 2025 | £341,000 | £349,154 | 88 |
| 2024 | £342,000 | £363,616 | 89 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 93 |
| 2022 | £317,000 | £371,719 | 108 |
| 2021 | £303,000 | £383,637 | 105 |
| 2020 | £258,000 | £334,760 | 81 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 101 |
| 2018 | £273,800 | £364,981 | 80 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 95 |
| 2016 | £217,500 | £304,285 | 95 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 120 |
| 2014 | £179,500 | £254,652 | 98 |
| 2013 | £182,500 | £262,599 | 92 |
| 2012 | £174,200 | £256,401 | 76 |
| 2011 | £188,000 | £283,808 | 61 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 71 |
| 2009 | £158,900 | £255,433 | 70 |
| 2008 | £179,000 | £293,419 | 41 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 169 |
| 2006 | £189,500 | £328,948 | 116 |
| 2005 | £189,800 | £337,768 | 86 |
| 2004 | £163,000 | £296,040 | 120 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 142 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 112 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 108 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 124 |
| 1999 | £79,000 | £157,443 | 127 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 113 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 103 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 86 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical WA14 1 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £330,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 158%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA14 1 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 2002 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in WA14 1
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.
WA14 1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
What tenants pay around WA14 1
WA14 1 falls under Trafford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,362 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £938 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,098, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £330,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,362 a month (£16,344 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
The shape of the WA14 1 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WA14 district median, WA14 1 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WA14 1 (Bowdon): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WA14 1 (Bowdon)?
Are property prices falling in WA14 1 (Bowdon)?
Is WA14 1 (Bowdon) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WA14 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 you could buy in WA14 now
Turning to what is actually available: 76 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA14 district, not just WA14 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Pochard Drive, Broadheath, Altrincham...
- Woodfield Road, Greater Manchester, WA14
- Cranberry Close, Broadheath, Altrinch...
"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 WA14 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 WA: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £265,000 | £385,000 (+45%) | £645,000 (+68%) | £1,000,000 (+55%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £210,000 (+17%) | £270,000 (+29%) | £440,000 (+63%) | £692,500 (+57%) |
| Terraced | £134,000 | £145,000 (+8%) | £190,000 (+31%) | £360,000 (+89%) | £675,500 (+88%) |
| Flat | £118,787 | £180,000 (+52%) | £350,000 (+94%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA14 2 | £455,000 | 40 |
| WA14 3 | £825,000 | 24 |
| WA14 4 | £435,000 | 49 |
| WA14 5 | £425,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full WA14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA14 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA14 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA14 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA14 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA14 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA14 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WA14 1 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.
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.