That is the middle of 700 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 6.2 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.
700 homes sold in three years: 268 detached houses, 201 semi-detached houses, 141 terraced houses and 90 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£975K
median sale · 268 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£750K–£1.4M
Last 12 months
£985K75 sold
Semi-detached houses£660K
median sale · 201 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£505K–£890K
Last 12 months
£615K55 sold
Terraced houses£585K
median sale · 141 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£445K–£725K
Last 12 months
£595K49 sold
Flats and maisonettes£272K
median sale · 90 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£203K–£500K
Last 12 months
£338K18 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses20%
Flats and maisonettes13%
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 Hale’s homes sold for between £497K and £995K
One sale in ten was under £335K and one in ten over £1.5M. 6% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £710,000, sits in the £500–750K band
700 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £113,000 in 1995 to £705,000 in the last 12 months (£550,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
197 sales in the last 12 months, against 485 in 2002, the busiest year, and 197 in 2008. Sales fell by 39% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 51% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hale costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hale, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£173K
£258K
£563K
£585K
£630K
£835K
£985K
Semi-detached houses
£105K
£180K
£300K
£305K
£433K
£500K
£615K
Terraced houses
£78K
£124K
£241K
£277K
£332K
£450K
£595K
Flats and maisonettes
£68K
£115K
£176K
£228K
£263K
£269K
£338K
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
420 new homes have been sold in Hale since 1995; the share peaked at 24% in 2005.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
23% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 12% sold leasehold in Hale. 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
Hale Road is Hale’s busiest street, with 38 sales in three years
49 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Hale Road
WA15
38
£747,500
Mixed
2
Grove Lane
WA15
24
£558,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Queens Road
WA15
20
£175,000
Mostly flats
4
Park Road
WA15
17
£1,157,500
Mixed
5
New Copper Moss
WA15
16
£217,500
Mostly flats
6
Chapel Lane
WA15
14
£1,170,055
Mostly detached houses
7
High Elm Road
WA15
14
£745,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Appleton Road
WA15
12
£667,500
Mixed
9
Oak Road
WA15
12
£486,750
Mostly terraced houses
10
Gorse Bank Road
WA15
11
£1,030,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Woburn Drive
WA15
11
£580,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Westgate
WA15
10
£943,250
Mixed
13
Briony Avenue
WA15
10
£472,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Carrwood
WA15
9
£2,304,375
Mostly detached houses
15
Hawthorn Road
WA15
9
£640,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Carrwood: £2,304,375
Hale median£710K
Carrwood£2.3M
Planetree Road£1.8M
Arthog Road£1.5M
Bower Road£1.2M
Chapel Lane£1.2M
Cheapest streets
Queens Road: £175,000
Hale median£710K
Queens Road£175K
New Copper Moss£218K
Wolf Grange£285K
Tarbolton Crescent£325K
Old Meadow Lane£373K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 13.2 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 Greater Manchester
Hale is the 2nd most expensive of 81 towns in Greater Manchester
Hale is one of Greater Manchester’s dearest 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 Hale
What is the average house price in Hale?
The median home in Hale sold for £710,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 700 standard sales (£705,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £975,000, semi-detached houses £660,000, terraced houses £585,000 and flats and maisonettes £272,000.
Are house prices going up in Hale?
The median was £700,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£707,500), and £705,000 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 Hale each year?
197 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 275 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Hale?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Carrwood (WA15, £2,304,375), Planetree Road (WA15, £1,760,700) and Arthog Road (WA15, £1,515,000).
Is Hale expensive for Greater Manchester?
Hale is the 2nd most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Greater Manchester 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.
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