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Helsby market report WA6 0, Frodsham
The standing WA6 0 (Helsby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,286 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA6 0 (Frodsham) 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 WA6 0 (Frodsham) home changed hands for £230,000 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £262,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,286 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA6 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WA6 (Frodsham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WA6 0 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 buyers actually paid in WA6 0
The 2026 median for WA6 0 is £230,000, taken from 35 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £262,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WA6 0
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA6 0 sales average about £2,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WA6 0 sits 19% below the national market.
The price of a typical WA6 0 home, 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 73 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 65 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 70 |
| 2022 | £222,500 | £260,907 | 65 |
| 2021 | £206,000 | £260,823 | 82 |
| 2020 | £190,200 | £246,788 | 52 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 95 |
| 2018 | £178,900 | £238,477 | 86 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 110 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 81 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 87 |
| 2014 | £166,500 | £236,209 | 72 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 49 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 51 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 49 |
| 2010 | £147,200 | £230,848 | 36 |
| 2009 | £149,500 | £240,323 | 44 |
| 2008 | £156,100 | £255,881 | 70 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 106 |
| 2006 | £147,200 | £255,520 | 98 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 98 |
| 2004 | £142,500 | £258,808 | 70 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 84 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 83 |
| 2001 | £75,100 | £144,376 | 76 |
| 2000 | £77,000 | £151,113 | 66 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 90 |
| 1998 | £54,200 | £109,407 | 65 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 49 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 73 |
| 1995 | £55,500 | £120,648 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical WA6 0 home went from £55,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 91%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WA6 0 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.8%). 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) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.2% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in WA6 0
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in WA6 0. 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 62 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 WA6 0
For renting purposes WA6 0 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £712 a month here against £1,586 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
How WA6 0 trades
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA6 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WA6, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on WA6 0 (Helsby)
Are property prices falling in WA6 0 (Helsby)?
Is WA6 0 (Helsby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA6 0 (Helsby)?
What happens to WA6 0 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WA6 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 2 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA6 district, not just WA6 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every WA6 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.
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. 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. 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.
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 WA6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WA6, each linking to its own report:
Zoom out to the full WA6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WA6 0? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA6 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA6 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA6 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WA6 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA6 0 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.
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.