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Bowdon market report WA14 3, Altrincham
The WA14 3 (Bowdon) 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: 2,762 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA14 3 (Altrincham) 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 WA14 3 (Altrincham) came in at £825,000, out of 24 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £953,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,762 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 3 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 3 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.
WA14 3 sold prices: where the market stands
24 sales were registered in WA14 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £825,000. The mean works out at £953,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in WA14 3
By floor space, homes in WA14 3 have sold for about £5,110 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA14 3 189% above the national figure.
The price of a typical WA14 3 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 | £825,000 | £825,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £915,000 | £936,880 | 57 |
| 2024 | £940,000 | £999,413 | 47 |
| 2023 | £770,000 | £846,042 | 51 |
| 2022 | £830,000 | £973,270 | 87 |
| 2021 | £766,200 | £970,108 | 88 |
| 2020 | £726,700 | £942,908 | 61 |
| 2019 | £678,800 | £889,744 | 64 |
| 2018 | £696,000 | £927,781 | 84 |
| 2017 | £587,500 | £801,291 | 81 |
| 2016 | £545,000 | £762,460 | 70 |
| 2015 | £625,000 | £883,125 | 79 |
| 2014 | £600,000 | £851,205 | 72 |
| 2013 | £530,000 | £762,617 | 81 |
| 2012 | £482,500 | £710,180 | 64 |
| 2011 | £582,500 | £879,351 | 60 |
| 2010 | £540,000 | £846,859 | 75 |
| 2009 | £357,000 | £573,881 | 67 |
| 2008 | £500,000 | £819,606 | 67 |
| 2007 | £537,500 | £911,750 | 106 |
| 2006 | £500,000 | £867,936 | 140 |
| 2005 | £420,000 | £747,431 | 81 |
| 2004 | £415,000 | £753,721 | 102 |
| 2003 | £347,500 | £640,179 | 106 |
| 2002 | £341,000 | £641,589 | 142 |
| 2001 | £282,000 | £542,131 | 101 |
| 2000 | £280,000 | £549,500 | 127 |
| 1999 | £242,500 | £483,290 | 132 |
| 1998 | £192,500 | £388,575 | 105 |
| 1997 | £181,000 | £371,194 | 152 |
| 1996 | £153,000 | £322,670 | 111 |
| 1995 | £199,000 | £432,595 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical WA14 3 home went from £199,000 in 1995 to £825,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 91%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA14 3 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 2010 (+51.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−28.6%). 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) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 WA14 3
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.
The register shows 24 WA14 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around WA14 3
WA14 3 falls under Trafford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,362 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £938 a month here against £2,098 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £825,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 2.0%: 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.
How WA14 3 trades
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the WA14 district median, WA14 3 sits 94% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about WA14 3 (Bowdon)
How much did a house sell for in WA14 3 (Bowdon)?
Are property prices falling in WA14 3 (Bowdon)?
Is WA14 3 (Bowdon) a good place to buy a house?
Will WA14 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
What is for sale in WA14 right 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Winners and losers across the WA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £330,800 | 30 |
| WA14 2 | £455,000 | 40 |
| 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 3? 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 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA14 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA14 3 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 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA14 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA14 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.