Capel Way, Nantwich house prices are built from 77 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 31 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £189,950. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +9.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.5%.
Median price paid
£189,950
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+9.3%
Change in real terms
-20.5%
Median per m²
£2,149
HM Land Registry77 sales13 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Capel Way, Nantwich prices moved
The chart tracks the median Capel Way, Nantwich house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2005 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £187,475 | £341,524 |
| 2010s | 1 | £177,500 | £250,275 |
| 2020s | 1 | £205,000 | £209,457 |
The highest yearly median on record for Capel Way, Nantwich is £205,000 in 2021; the lowest is £177,500 in 2014. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £194,370 to £205,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £354,085, so the real change over the whole record is -26.9% — about -1.94% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +9.3% in cash against -20.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 31 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £227,000 | £227,000 |
| 28 | 4 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 19 | 30 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 15 | 28 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 4 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 42 | 14 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 50 | 20 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 24 | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 5 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £207,000 | £261,532 |
| 40 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| 4 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 34 | 15 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £185,000 | £239,532 |
| 28 | 13 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 48 | 25 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 36 | 1 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £261,596 |
| 40 | 22 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £195,000 | £265,396 |
| 24 | 20 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £184,950 | £251,718 |
| 52 | 17 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £170,000 | £231,371 |
| 28 | 5 Jul 2016 | Terraced | £180,000 | £251,287 |
| 23 | 30 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £184,000 | £259,440 |
| 48 | 15 May 2015 | Terraced | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| 12 | 14 Nov 2014 | Terraced | £185,000 | £265,361 |
| 15 | 14 Aug 2014 | Terraced | £182,000 | £261,058 |
| 30 | 1 Aug 2014 | Terraced | £180,000 | £258,189 |
| 7 | 3 Jul 2014 | Terraced | £167,500 | £240,259 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Capel Way, Nantwich values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 Capel Way | £199,850 (2005) | £227,000 (2026) | +0.6% | -2.2% |
| 28 Capel Way | £195,900 (2005) | £225,000 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 19 Capel Way | £199,850 (2005) | £215,000 (2025) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
| 15 Capel Way | £178,450 (2005) | £265,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 4 Capel Way | £195,750 (2005) | £225,000 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 42 Capel Way | £167,748 (2005) | £220,000 (2022) | +1.6% | -1.1% |
| 50 Capel Way | £168,147 (2005) | £205,000 (2021) | +1.2% | -1.0% |
| 24 Capel Way | £176,310 (2005) | £205,000 (2021) | +0.9% | -1.3% |
| 5 Capel Way | £194,040 (2005) | £207,000 (2021) | +0.4% | -1.9% |
| 40 Capel Way | £195,900 (2005) | £198,000 (2021) | +0.1% | -2.2% |
| 34 Capel Way | £190,550 (2005) | £185,000 (2020) | -0.2% | -2.4% |
| 36 Capel Way | £181,600 (2005) | £200,000 (2019) | +0.7% | -1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Capel Way, Nantwich is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 64 | 83.1% | £187,250 | £155,000 – £265,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 10.4% | £181,600 | £172,000 – £229,936 |
| Detached | 4 | 5.2% | £194,700 | £192,800 – £207,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 1.3% | £124,850 | £124,850 – £124,850 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Capel Way, Nantwich
74 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 96.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £188,600 and the median freehold sale £207,000 — a gap of +9.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 74 | 96.1% | £188,600 |
| Freehold | 3 | 3.9% | £207,000 |
| New build | 37 | 48.1% | £194,700 |
| Existing home | 40 | 51.9% | £185,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +5.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 4 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Capel Way, Nantwich
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,489 | 0.8% |
| B | 29,554 | 15.0% |
| C | 55,700 | 28.2% |
| D | 73,725 | 37.4% |
| E | 26,906 | 13.6% |
| F | 7,570 | 3.8% |
| G | 2,422 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £189,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.20% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CW5, 144 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 77 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 18 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.36 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Capel Way, Nantwich
The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a CW5 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brine Leas School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,417 |
| Malbank School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,289 |
| Willaston Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 251 |
| Highfields Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 247 |
| Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| Millfields Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 229 |
| Pear Tree Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 214 |
| Weaver Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Wybunbury Delves CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 205 |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 198 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Nantwich Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| Crewe Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
| Wrenbury Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
| Sandbach Rail Station | Rail | 13.1 km |
Section 09
How Capel Way, Nantwich compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Capel Way, Nantwich sits above that national figure — +20.6%.
Within Nantwich the street ranks 285 of 518 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £178,500 (+6.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,149 per square metre, across 13 of the 77 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £124,850 to £265,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Capel Way, Nantwich sits in Cheshire East, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- London Road£135,000 median
- Crewe Road£170,000 median
- Wistaston Road£129,750 median
- Clonners Field£159,750 median
- Queens Drive£129,500 median
- Hawksey Drive£177,863 median
- Richmond Village£210,000 median
- Barony Road£135,000 median
- Millstone Lane£124,500 median
- Talbot Way£235,000 median
- Wybunbury Road£122,225 median
- Marsh Lane£170,000 median
- Flowerscroft£136,500 median
- Haydn Jones Drive£228,000 median
- Saltmeadows£193,975 median
- Main Road£185,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 48 Capel Way4 sales
- 28 Capel Way4 sales
- 42 Capel Way4 sales
- 24 Capel Way4 sales
- 19 Capel Way3 sales
- 15 Capel Way3 sales
- 4 Capel Way3 sales
- 40 Capel Way3 sales
- 36 Capel Way3 sales
- 50 Capel Way2 sales
- 5 Capel Way2 sales
- 34 Capel Way2 sales
- 52 Capel Way2 sales
- 23 Capel Way2 sales
- 12 Capel Way2 sales
- 30 Capel Way2 sales
- 7 Capel Way2 sales
- 9 Capel Way2 sales
- 38 Capel Way2 sales
- 2 Capel Way2 sales
- 16 Capel Way2 sales
- 44 Capel Way2 sales
- 8 Capel Way2 sales
- 14 Capel Way2 sales
Back to Nantwich house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Capel Way, Nantwich?
The median price paid in Capel Way, Nantwich across every sale on the register is £189,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Capel Way, Nantwich?
77 sales are on record for Capel Way, Nantwich, the most recent completing on 31 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Capel Way, Nantwich house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +9.3% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Capel Way, Nantwich house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £205,000, set in 2021. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Capel Way, Nantwich?
£2,149 per square metre, from the 13 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 31 Mar 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Capel Way, Nantwich house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.