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High Legh market report WA16 9, Knutsford
The WA16 9 (High Legh) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,606 registered sales in WA16 9 (Knutsford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WA16 9 (Knutsford) sold for £660,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £649,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,606 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WA16 9 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 9 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 9
The WA16 9 median stands at £660,000 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £649,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in WA16 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA16 9 costs about £4,630 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA16 9 sits 132% above the national market.
WA16 9'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 | £660,000 | £660,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £740,000 | £757,696 | 69 |
| 2024 | £600,000 | £637,923 | 43 |
| 2023 | £690,000 | £758,142 | 35 |
| 2022 | £612,500 | £718,226 | 58 |
| 2021 | £689,500 | £872,996 | 78 |
| 2020 | £493,000 | £639,678 | 47 |
| 2019 | £534,000 | £699,946 | 44 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 45 |
| 2017 | £535,000 | £729,686 | 53 |
| 2016 | £535,000 | £748,470 | 55 |
| 2015 | £405,000 | £572,265 | 59 |
| 2014 | £392,200 | £556,404 | 42 |
| 2013 | £372,000 | £535,271 | 50 |
| 2012 | £368,000 | £541,650 | 50 |
| 2011 | £370,000 | £558,558 | 45 |
| 2010 | £341,000 | £534,776 | 49 |
| 2009 | £367,500 | £590,759 | 40 |
| 2008 | £330,000 | £540,940 | 33 |
| 2007 | £375,000 | £636,104 | 55 |
| 2006 | £287,500 | £499,063 | 62 |
| 2005 | £320,000 | £569,471 | 45 |
| 2004 | £290,200 | £527,060 | 50 |
| 2003 | £248,500 | £457,797 | 57 |
| 2002 | £238,500 | £448,736 | 68 |
| 2001 | £190,500 | £366,227 | 62 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 49 |
| 1999 | £145,000 | £288,977 | 67 |
| 1998 | £131,000 | £264,433 | 49 |
| 1997 | £122,500 | £251,223 | 48 |
| 1996 | £135,000 | £284,709 | 47 |
| 1995 | £126,500 | £274,992 | 33 |
In cash terms the typical WA16 9 home went from £126,500 in 1995 to £660,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WA16 9 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 2021 (+39.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−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 years (since 2025) | −10.8% | −12.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 19 WA16 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 45 sales a year recently, against 56 a year before 2008. 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 rental side of WA16 9
For renting purposes WA16 9 sits in Cheshire East. The ONS average private rent there is £979 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £692 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,603, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire East
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £660,000 median purchase price, a rent of £979 a month (£11,748 a year) works out at a 1.8% 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 WA16 9 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 47% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
WA16 9 (High Legh): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WA16 9 (High Legh)?
Are property prices falling in WA16 9 (High Legh)?
Is WA16 9 (High Legh) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WA16 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
What is for sale in WA16 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 55 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA16 district, not just WA16 9: 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
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
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. 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 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 6 | £495,400 | 19 |
| WA16 7 | £335,000 | 35 |
| WA16 8 | £360,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full WA16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA16 9? 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 WA16 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA16 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA16 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WA16 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA16 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA16 9 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.
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.