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High Legh market report WA16 6, Knutsford
The WA16 6 (High Legh) 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: 2,073 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA16 6 (Knutsford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WA16 6 (Knutsford) came in at £495,400, out of 19 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £667,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,410 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,073 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WA16 6 is one sector of WA16 (Knutsford): 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 WA16 6 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.
The going rate for a home in WA16 6
The WA16 6 median stands at £495,400 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £667,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WA16 6
The last five years of sales put WA16 6 at roughly £4,410 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA16 6 74% above the national figure.
A typical WA16 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £495,400 | £495,400 | 19 |
| 2025 | £558,800 | £572,163 | 60 |
| 2024 | £482,500 | £512,997 | 56 |
| 2023 | £578,000 | £635,081 | 34 |
| 2022 | £502,500 | £589,239 | 52 |
| 2021 | £432,000 | £546,968 | 70 |
| 2020 | £502,500 | £652,004 | 56 |
| 2019 | £437,500 | £573,458 | 69 |
| 2018 | £367,500 | £489,884 | 49 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 61 |
| 2016 | £426,000 | £595,978 | 77 |
| 2015 | £354,800 | £501,332 | 64 |
| 2014 | £325,000 | £461,069 | 59 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 39 |
| 2012 | £273,000 | £401,822 | 47 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 38 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 47 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 34 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 33 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 93 |
| 2006 | £269,500 | £467,818 | 83 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 87 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 75 |
| 2003 | £220,000 | £405,293 | 87 |
| 2002 | £196,000 | £368,772 | 102 |
| 2001 | £157,800 | £303,362 | 69 |
| 2000 | £170,000 | £333,625 | 80 |
| 1999 | £157,200 | £313,291 | 98 |
| 1998 | £106,700 | £215,382 | 88 |
| 1997 | £117,800 | £241,584 | 100 |
| 1996 | £116,000 | £244,639 | 79 |
| 1995 | £94,000 | £204,342 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical WA16 6 home went from £94,000 in 1995 to £495,400 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA16 6 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 1999 (+47.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.9%). 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) | −11.3% | −13.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 19 WA16 6 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 85 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 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 homes rent for around WA16 6
WA16 6 falls under Cheshire East, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £692 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,603 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£979 a month is £11,748 a year, which against the £495,400 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.4%. 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 kind of market WA16 6 is
This is a thin market: 19 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WA16, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about WA16 6 (High Legh)
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What happens to WA16 6 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
WA16's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 55 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA16 district, not just WA16 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16
- Marion Drive, Mobberley, Knutsford, C...
- Robert Moffat, High Legh, Knutsford
"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 WA16 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
Real sold prices by size across the WA area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WA16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA16 0 | £480,000 | 34 |
| WA16 7 | £335,000 | 35 |
| WA16 8 | £360,000 | 41 |
| WA16 9 | £660,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full WA16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WA16 6? 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 WA16 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA16 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA16 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual WA16 6 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.
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.