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Bowdon market report WA14 5, Altrincham
The WA14 5 (Bowdon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,139 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA14 5 (Altrincham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 51 registered 2026 sales put the WA14 5 (Altrincham) median at £425,000, up 40% on five years earlier, with a mean of £431,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,139 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WA14 5 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 5 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 5 sold prices: where the market stands
51 sales were registered in WA14 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £425,000. The mean works out at £431,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
WA14 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of WA14 5 home has cost about £4,190 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA14 5 trades 49% above the country as a whole.
WA14 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 125 |
| 2024 | £334,900 | £356,067 | 138 |
| 2023 | £333,000 | £365,886 | 107 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 115 |
| 2021 | £302,600 | £383,131 | 180 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 133 |
| 2019 | £249,000 | £326,379 | 148 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 221 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 177 |
| 2016 | £229,200 | £320,653 | 172 |
| 2015 | £227,000 | £320,751 | 195 |
| 2014 | £207,500 | £294,375 | 190 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 185 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 170 |
| 2011 | £196,200 | £296,187 | 158 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 148 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 118 |
| 2008 | £152,000 | £249,160 | 147 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 336 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 313 |
| 2005 | £171,000 | £304,311 | 224 |
| 2004 | £141,000 | £256,084 | 149 |
| 2003 | £118,000 | £217,385 | 145 |
| 2002 | £91,000 | £171,216 | 159 |
| 2001 | £87,200 | £167,638 | 154 |
| 2000 | £73,500 | £144,244 | 120 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 165 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 128 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 148 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 119 |
| 1995 | £51,500 | £111,953 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical WA14 5 home went from £51,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 280%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WA14 5 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +26.9% | +23.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.0% | +2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.4% | +2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WA14 5
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 register shows 51 WA14 5 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.
The shape of the WA14 5 market
This is a thin market: 51 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. 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.
Rents around WA14 5
WA14 5 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.
£1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, which against the £425,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about WA14 5 (Bowdon)
How much did a house sell for in WA14 5 (Bowdon)?
Are property prices falling in WA14 5 (Bowdon)?
Is WA14 5 (Bowdon) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WA14 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WA14's current homes for sale
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 5: 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.
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- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WA: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £455,000 | 40 |
| WA14 3 | £825,000 | 24 |
| WA14 4 | £435,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full WA14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WA14 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA14 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA14 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA14 5 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 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA14 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA14 5 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.