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Bowdon market report WA14 4, Altrincham
The standing WA14 4 (Bowdon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,377 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA14 4 (Altrincham) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical WA14 4 (Altrincham) home changed hands for £435,000 in 2026 (median of 55 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier), with the mean at £497,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,377 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WA14 4 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 4 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 4 sold prices: where the market stands
55 sales were registered in WA14 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £435,000. The mean works out at £497,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WA14 4
By floor space, homes in WA14 4 have sold for about £4,530 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA14 4 53% above the country at large.
WA14 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 130 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 106 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 105 |
| 2022 | £398,000 | £466,700 | 130 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 151 |
| 2020 | £369,800 | £479,823 | 122 |
| 2019 | £354,900 | £465,189 | 146 |
| 2018 | £332,800 | £443,629 | 195 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 242 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 110 |
| 2015 | £266,500 | £376,565 | 143 |
| 2014 | £227,500 | £322,748 | 158 |
| 2013 | £219,500 | £315,839 | 159 |
| 2012 | £235,800 | £347,068 | 120 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 97 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 71 |
| 2009 | £212,000 | £340,792 | 76 |
| 2008 | £222,000 | £363,905 | 81 |
| 2007 | £218,800 | £371,146 | 170 |
| 2006 | £197,000 | £341,967 | 224 |
| 2005 | £220,500 | £392,401 | 191 |
| 2004 | £237,000 | £430,438 | 169 |
| 2003 | £179,500 | £330,683 | 117 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 162 |
| 2001 | £148,000 | £284,522 | 173 |
| 2000 | £116,000 | £227,650 | 123 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 163 |
| 1998 | £94,000 | £189,746 | 140 |
| 1997 | £88,800 | £182,111 | 148 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 115 |
| 1995 | £82,500 | £179,342 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical WA14 4 home went from £82,500 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 143%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 9% 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 WA14 4 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 2018 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.0%). 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 year (since 2025) | +4.8% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.7% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
WA14 4 recorded 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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 homes rent for around WA14 4
WA14 4 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 £435,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,362 a month (£16,344 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
What kind of market WA14 4 is
Only 55 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA14 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What people ask about WA14 4 (Bowdon)
Are property prices falling in WA14 4 (Bowdon)?
Is WA14 4 (Bowdon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA14 4 (Bowdon)?
Are WA14 4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £225,000 | £260,000 (+16%) | £325,000 (+25%) | £436,995 (+34%) | £680,000 (+56%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £192,000 (+13%) | £232,500 (+21%) | £290,000 (+25%) | £410,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £129,975 | £140,000 (+8%) | £160,000 (+14%) | £249,475 (+56%) | £435,000 (+74%) |
| Flat | £105,000 | £140,000 (+33%) | £220,000 (+57%) | £315,000 (+43%) | £585,000 (+86%) |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 | £340,000 | 35 |
| WA14 2 | £460,000 | 49 |
| WA14 3 | £862,500 | 28 |
| WA14 5 | £422,500 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full WA14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WA14 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA14 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA14 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA14 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA14 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA14 4 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.