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Helsby market report WA6, Frodsham
The WA6 (Helsby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,581 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WA6 (Frodsham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WA6 (Frodsham) is £302,500, from 98 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £373,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,110 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,581 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WA6 is a postcode district covering Frodsham, Helsby in Frodsham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WA6 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.
Today's WA6 prices, from the sold record
98 sales were registered in WA6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £302,500. The mean works out at £373,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WA6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WA6 sales average about £3,110 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WA6 6% above the national figure.
A typical WA6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £302,500 | £302,500 | 98 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 293 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 300 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 243 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 314 |
| 2021 | £263,000 | £332,992 | 432 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 281 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 289 |
| 2018 | £221,500 | £295,264 | 320 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 375 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 314 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 343 |
| 2014 | £196,200 | £278,344 | 342 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 232 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 212 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 227 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 176 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 184 |
| 2008 | £198,000 | £324,564 | 256 |
| 2007 | £203,500 | £345,193 | 410 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 396 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 289 |
| 2004 | £173,000 | £314,202 | 321 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 373 |
| 2002 | £122,800 | £231,047 | 350 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 315 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 345 |
| 1999 | £77,200 | £153,856 | 391 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 294 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 286 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 315 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 265 |
In cash terms the typical WA6 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £302,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 114%: 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 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WA6 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 2004 (+23.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WA6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.8% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £490,000 against £167,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WA6
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £490,000 | 38 | 3,579 |
| Semi-detached | £277,500 | 36 | 3,231 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 16 | 1,815 |
| Flats | £167,000 | 8 | 956 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 205 WA6 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 350 sales a year before the financial crisis and 250 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.
The shape of the WA6 market
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.
What tenants pay around WA6
The local authority for WA6 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £302,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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 people ask about WA6 (Helsby)
Are property prices falling in WA6 (Helsby)?
Is WA6 (Helsby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WA6 (Helsby)?
What happens to WA6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WA6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WA6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 38 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% below the WA6 median sold price.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WA prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WA area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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
WA6 ranks 9 of 16 in the WA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, WA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WA6, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WA6 0 | £250,000 | 27 |
| WA6 6 | £457,500 | 22 |
| WA6 7 | £272,500 | 26 |
| WA6 8 | £469,800 | 7 |
| WA6 9 | £363,500 | 16 |
How WA6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WA15 | £500,000 | +14% |
| WA16 | £447,500 | +3% |
| WA14 | £425,000 | +15% |
| WA13 | £375,000 | +4% |
| WA4 | £314,000 | +8% |
| WA6 (this report) | £302,500 | +15% |
| WA5 | £260,000 | +12% |
| WA3 | £254,000 | +14% |
| WA1 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WA12 | £215,000 | +19% |
| WA8 | £202,500 | +19% |
| WA2 | £195,500 | +26% |
| WA11 | £185,500 | +21% |
| WA7 | £180,000 | +20% |
| WA9 | £173,000 | +19% |
| WA10 | £170,000 | +17% |
Selling in WA6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WA6, open the average prices map and zoom from the WA6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WA6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WA6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WA6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WA6 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.