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Helsby market report WA6 6, Frodsham
The WA6 6 (Helsby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,299 registered sales in WA6 6 (Frodsham) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WA6 6 (Frodsham) home changed hands for £457,500 in 2026 (median of 22 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier), with the mean at £471,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,299 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WA6 6 is one sector of WA6 (Frodsham): 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 WA6 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 WA6 6
In the WA6 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £457,500, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £471,800, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in WA6 6
By floor space, homes in WA6 6 have sold for about £3,350 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WA6 6 61% above the country at large.
A typical WA6 6 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £457,500 | £457,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £436,200 | £446,631 | 76 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 77 |
| 2023 | £422,200 | £463,895 | 60 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 77 |
| 2021 | £369,400 | £467,708 | 106 |
| 2020 | £277,500 | £360,062 | 76 |
| 2019 | £258,000 | £338,176 | 63 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 69 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 73 |
| 2016 | £327,500 | £458,176 | 74 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 83 |
| 2014 | £249,500 | £353,959 | 72 |
| 2013 | £237,500 | £341,739 | 60 |
| 2012 | £232,000 | £341,475 | 69 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 71 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 45 |
| 2009 | £232,500 | £373,746 | 52 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 81 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 91 |
| 2006 | £247,000 | £428,760 | 64 |
| 2005 | £244,500 | £435,111 | 56 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 74 |
| 2003 | £148,500 | £273,573 | 106 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 83 |
| 2001 | £147,800 | £284,138 | 82 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 77 |
| 1999 | £119,000 | £237,161 | 91 |
| 1998 | £85,800 | £173,193 | 68 |
| 1997 | £82,500 | £169,191 | 76 |
| 1996 | £65,500 | £138,137 | 68 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical WA6 6 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £457,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA6 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 2001 (+52.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−22.1%). 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) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 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
How many homes change hands
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 22 WA6 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 79 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 6
For renting purposes WA6 6 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £712 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,586, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £457,500 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 2.6% 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.
The shape of the WA6 6 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WA6 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within WA6, this sector trades 51% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about WA6 6 (Helsby)
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What happens to WA6 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WA6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 38 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA6 district, not just WA6 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WA6 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.
What another bedroom costs in WA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WA6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WA6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA6 0 | £250,000 | 27 |
| WA6 7 | £272,500 | 26 |
| WA6 8 | £469,800 | 7 |
| WA6 9 | £363,500 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full WA6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WA6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WA6 6? 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 WA6 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA6 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA6 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA6 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA6 6.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA6 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WA6 6 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.
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.