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Ashley market report WA15, Altrincham
The WA15 (Ashley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 23,505 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA15 (Altrincham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in WA15 (Altrincham) sold for £500,000 in 2026, the median of 256 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £580,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 23,505 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district WA15 covering Altrincham (east), Ashley, Hale sits in Altrincham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WA15 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 a home in WA15 sells for
The 2026 median for WA15 is £500,000, taken from 256 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £580,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WA15
The last five years of sales put WA15 at roughly £4,830 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA15 trades 75% above the country as a whole.
WA15'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 256 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 691 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 608 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 539 |
| 2022 | £470,000 | £551,129 | 548 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 907 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 558 |
| 2019 | £386,500 | £506,609 | 595 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 629 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 692 |
| 2016 | £338,800 | £473,985 | 760 |
| 2015 | £299,000 | £422,487 | 793 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 735 |
| 2013 | £267,500 | £384,906 | 645 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 542 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 576 |
| 2010 | £251,500 | £394,417 | 574 |
| 2009 | £248,500 | £399,466 | 511 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 439 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 933 |
| 2006 | £247,200 | £429,108 | 978 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 1,005 |
| 2004 | £216,500 | £393,206 | 1,046 |
| 2003 | £194,000 | £357,395 | 959 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 1,049 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 909 |
| 2000 | £129,200 | £253,555 | 800 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 954 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 749 |
| 1997 | £88,500 | £181,496 | 963 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 881 |
| 1995 | £77,500 | £168,473 | 681 |
In cash terms the typical WA15 home went from £77,500 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 197%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA15 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 (+22.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−7.8%). 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 year (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.7% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £775,000 against £199,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WA15
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £775,000 | 45 | 5,883 |
| Semi-detached | £495,000 | 121 | 10,235 |
| Terraced | £450,000 | 58 | 4,809 |
| Flats | £199,000 | 32 | 2,578 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 483 WA15 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 960 sales a year before the financial crisis and 528 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.
What kind of market WA15 is
By median price, WA15 presently tops its postcode area.
Rents around WA15
WA15 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 £500,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
What people ask about WA15 (Ashley)
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What happens to WA15 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
The WA15 sales calendar
Across the 3,293 sales completed in WA15 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (12.4% of the total) and April the quietest (5.9%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 220 | 6.7% |
| February | 247 | 7.5% |
| March | 409 | 12.4% |
| April | 195 | 5.9% |
| May | 228 | 6.9% |
| June | 390 | 11.8% |
| July | 236 | 7.2% |
| August | 275 | 8.4% |
| September | 313 | 9.5% |
| October | 308 | 9.4% |
| November | 229 | 7.0% |
| December | 243 | 7.4% |
What another bedroom costs in WA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WA area. 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 | £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%) |
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
WA15 ranks 11 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
WA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA15, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 0 | £800,000 | 21 |
| WA15 6 | £445,000 | 73 |
| WA15 7 | £350,000 | 64 |
| WA15 8 | £510,000 | 46 |
| WA15 9 | £741,200 | 52 |
How WA15 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 (this report) | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £456,000 | +5% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £390,000 | +8% |
| WA4 | £315,000 | +9% |
| WA6 | £300,000 | +14% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £250,000 | +13% |
| WA1 | £245,500 | +26% |
| WA12 | £220,000 | +22% |
| WA2 | £200,000 | +29% |
| WA8 | £200,000 | +18% |
| WA11 | £189,000 | +23% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Before you sell in WA15: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA15, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA15 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA15 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA15 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WA15 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.