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Bowdon market report WA14 2, Altrincham
The WA14 2 (Bowdon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,480 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA14 2 (Altrincham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA14 2 (Altrincham) came in at £455,000, out of 40 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £614,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,480 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WA14 2 is a single group of streets within WA14 (Altrincham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA14 2 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 WA14 2 homes really sell for
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WA14 2 home went for £455,000. The mean is £614,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WA14 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA14 2 costs about £4,870 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA14 2 trades 60% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WA14 2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 112 |
| 2024 | £502,500 | £534,261 | 108 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 114 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 142 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 154 |
| 2020 | £450,000 | £583,884 | 104 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 107 |
| 2018 | £492,500 | £656,512 | 132 |
| 2017 | £434,500 | £592,614 | 132 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 131 |
| 2015 | £327,600 | £462,899 | 174 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 118 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 111 |
| 2012 | £340,000 | £500,438 | 113 |
| 2011 | £280,000 | £422,692 | 99 |
| 2010 | £312,500 | £490,080 | 103 |
| 2009 | £236,000 | £379,372 | 68 |
| 2008 | £328,800 | £538,973 | 76 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 240 |
| 2006 | £297,500 | £516,422 | 191 |
| 2005 | £265,000 | £471,593 | 129 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 203 |
| 2003 | £241,500 | £444,902 | 190 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 222 |
| 2001 | £168,500 | £323,933 | 154 |
| 2000 | £170,000 | £333,625 | 149 |
| 1999 | £135,000 | £269,048 | 190 |
| 1998 | £138,000 | £278,563 | 165 |
| 1997 | £111,000 | £227,639 | 195 |
| 1996 | £100,500 | £211,950 | 165 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical WA14 2 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA14 2 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 (+50.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−28.2%). 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) | −8.1% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in WA14 2
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in WA14 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 a year over the last five. 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 WA14 2
The local authority for WA14 2 is Trafford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £455,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
The shape of the WA14 2 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA14 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on WA14 2 (Bowdon)
How much did a house sell for in WA14 2 (Bowdon)?
Are property prices falling in WA14 2 (Bowdon)?
Is WA14 2 (Bowdon) a good place to buy a house?
Will WA14 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WA14 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 76 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA14 district, not just WA14 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA14
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA14, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA14 1 | £330,800 | 30 |
| 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 2? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA14 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA14 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA14 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA14 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA14 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA14 2 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.
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.