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Helsby market report WA6 7, Frodsham
The standing WA6 7 (Helsby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,029 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WA6 7 (Frodsham) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WA6 7 (Frodsham) sold for £272,500 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £294,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,860 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,029 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WA6 7 is a single group of streets within WA6 (Frodsham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WA6 7 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.
WA6 7 sold prices: where the market stands
26 sales were registered in WA6 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £272,500. The mean works out at £294,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WA6 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WA6 7 costs about £2,860 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WA6 7 trades 4% below the country as a whole.
A typical WA6 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £272,500 | £272,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £263,000 | £269,289 | 81 |
| 2024 | £236,000 | £250,916 | 95 |
| 2023 | £242,500 | £266,448 | 67 |
| 2022 | £235,500 | £276,151 | 110 |
| 2021 | £224,200 | £283,866 | 144 |
| 2020 | £203,000 | £263,397 | 98 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 75 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 100 |
| 2017 | £186,500 | £254,367 | 104 |
| 2016 | £187,500 | £262,314 | 86 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 97 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 127 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 89 |
| 2012 | £172,500 | £253,898 | 51 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 65 |
| 2010 | £174,000 | £272,877 | 55 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 49 |
| 2008 | £181,500 | £297,517 | 66 |
| 2007 | £179,000 | £303,634 | 127 |
| 2006 | £157,000 | £272,532 | 174 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 90 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 113 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 104 |
| 2002 | £107,200 | £201,696 | 102 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 94 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 133 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 133 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 98 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 93 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 101 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical WA6 7 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £272,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 128%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA6 7 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 (+23.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.8%). 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) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 26 WA6 7 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 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
Reading the WA6 7 market
This is a thin market: 26 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. Against the WA6 district median, WA6 7 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around WA6 7
The local authority for WA6 7 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £712 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,586 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £272,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
Asked and answered: WA6 7 (Helsby)
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Are WA6 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WA6's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 38 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WA6 district, not just WA6 7: 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 →
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
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.
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 WA6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WA6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA6 0 | £250,000 | 27 |
| WA6 6 | £457,500 | 22 |
| 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 a home in WA6 7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WA6 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WA6 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WA6 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WA6 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WA6 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WA6 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA6 7 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.