That is the middle of 78 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 4.4 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.
78 homes sold in three years: 9 detached houses, 27 semi-detached houses, 39 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Semi-detached houses£235K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£272K
Last 12 months
£225K10 sold
Terraced houses£205K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£225K
Last 12 months
£225K9 sold
Fewer sales
Detached houses: 9 sold, median £435K Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A terraced town: half of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses12%
Semi-detached houses35%
Terraced houses50%
Flats and maisonettes4%
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 Wardle’s homes sold for between £185K and £260K
One sale in ten was under £150K and one in ten over £410K. 73% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £215,000, sits in the £200–250K band
78 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £53,950 in 1995 to £240,000 in the last 12 months (£140,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
22 sales in the last 12 months, against 80 in 2005, the busiest year, and 11 in 2011. Sales fell by 59% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 21%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wardle costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Wardle, 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
Semi-detached houses
£54K
£60K
£145K
£140K
£135K
£165K
£225K
Terraced houses
£44K
£49K
£136K
£107K
£119K
£148K
£225K
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
83 new homes have been sold in Wardle since 1995; the share peaked at 38% 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
74% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 73% sold leasehold in Wardle. 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
Ramsden Road is Wardle’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Ramsden Road
OL12
15
£195,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Wasp Mill Drive
OL12
7
£235,000
Mixed
3
Dovedale Drive
OL12
6
£215,000
Mixed
4
Shaftesbury Drive
OL12
6
£205,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Alpine Drive
OL12
5
£240,050
Mostly semi-detached houses
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.
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 Wardle
What is the average house price in Wardle?
The median home in Wardle sold for £215,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 78 standard sales (£240,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £435,000, semi-detached houses £235,000 and terraced houses £205,000.
Are house prices going up in Wardle?
The median was £229,950 in 2025, up 10% on 2024 (£210,000), and £240,000 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 Wardle each year?
22 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 30 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.