That is the middle of 279 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 3.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
279 homes sold in three years: 119 detached houses, 104 semi-detached houses, 33 terraced houses and 23 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£500K
median sale · 119 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£410K–£720K
Last 12 months
£505K31 sold
Semi-detached houses£300K
median sale · 104 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£252K–£365K
Last 12 months
£300K30 sold
Terraced houses£262K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£225K–£300K
Last 12 months
£240K9 sold
Flats and maisonettes£155K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£130K–£205K
Last 12 months
£150K7 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 43% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses43%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses12%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Culcheth’s homes sold for between £260K and £490K
One sale in ten was under £205K and one in ten over £730K. 20% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £358,000, sits in the £300–400K band
279 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 3.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £93,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in the last 12 months (£265,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
77 sales in the last 12 months, against 180 in 2006, the busiest year, and 66 in 2008. Sales fell by 40% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 16%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 36% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Culcheth costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Culcheth, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£122K
£140K
£272K
£303K
£352K
£425K
£505K
Semi-detached houses
£65K
£78K
£168K
£170K
£193K
£239K
£300K
Terraced houses
£55K
£72K
£157K
£143K
£160K
£260K
£240K
Flats and maisonettes
£44K
£52K
£180K
£128K
£113K
£139K
£150K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
315 new homes have been sold in Culcheth since 1995; the share peaked at 52% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
37% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 31% sold leasehold in Culcheth. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Ellesmere Road is Culcheth’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
20 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 6 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Ellesmere Road
WA3
14
£197,500
Mostly flats
2
Twiss Green Lane
WA3
12
£515,000
Mixed
3
Warrington Road
WA3
12
£165,000
Mixed
4
Culcheth Hall Drive
WA3
11
£632,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Severn Road
WA3
11
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Hob Hey Lane
WA3
10
£972,500
Mostly detached houses
7
Common Lane
WA3
9
£750,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Chiltern Road
WA3
8
£432,500
Mostly detached houses
9
Birchall Avenue
WA3
7
£382,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Wigshaw Lane
WA3
7
£320,000
Mixed
11
Downham Avenue
WA3
7
£240,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Wellfield Road
WA3
6
£399,999
Mostly detached houses
13
Sutton Avenue
WA3
6
£352,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Newland Mews
WA3
6
£263,750
Mixed
15
Lane End Mews
WA3
5
£625,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Hob Hey Lane: £972,500
Culcheth median£358K
Hob Hey Lane£973K
Common Lane£750K
Culcheth Hall Drive£633K
Lane End Mews£625K
Bowden Close£538K
Cheapest streets
Warrington Road: £165,000
Culcheth median£358K
Warrington Road£165K
Ellesmere Road£198K
Downham Avenue£240K
Broadhurst Avenue£240K
Newland Mews£264K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cheshire
Culcheth is the 11th most expensive of 46 towns in Cheshire
Culcheth is in the middle of Cheshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Culcheth
What is the average house price in Culcheth?
The median home in Culcheth sold for £358,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 279 standard sales (£325,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £500,000, semi-detached houses £300,000, terraced houses £262,000 and flats and maisonettes £155,000.
Are house prices going up in Culcheth?
The median was £395,000 in 2025, up 14% on 2024 (£345,000), and £325,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Culcheth each year?
77 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 114 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Culcheth?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Hob Hey Lane (WA3, £972,500), Common Lane (WA3, £750,000) and Culcheth Hall Drive (WA3, £632,500).
Is Culcheth expensive for Cheshire?
Culcheth is the 11th most expensive of 46 towns of 2,500 or more in Cheshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.