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Birch Vale market report SK22 4, High Peak
The SK22 4 (Birch Vale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,338 registered sales in SK22 4 (High Peak) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SK22 4 (High Peak) is £245,000, from 29 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,338 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SK22 4 is one sector of SK22 (High Peak): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SK22 4 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.
The going rate for a home in SK22 4
29 sales were registered in SK22 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,000. The mean works out at £255,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in SK22 4
Per square metre, SK22 4 homes have averaged around £3,070 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SK22 4 14% below the national figure.
SK22 4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 141 |
| 2024 | £246,500 | £262,080 | 117 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 71 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 83 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 114 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 89 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 99 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 97 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 103 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 109 |
| 2015 | £141,500 | £199,940 | 118 |
| 2014 | £133,000 | £188,684 | 123 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 79 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 52 |
| 2011 | £116,500 | £175,870 | 84 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 69 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 61 |
| 2008 | £131,000 | £214,737 | 48 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 155 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 149 |
| 2005 | £127,800 | £227,432 | 162 |
| 2004 | £118,200 | £214,674 | 138 |
| 2003 | £93,800 | £172,802 | 152 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 171 |
| 2001 | £62,500 | £120,153 | 127 |
| 2000 | £57,800 | £113,433 | 152 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 109 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 101 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 91 |
| 1996 | £42,800 | £90,263 | 74 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical SK22 4 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SK22 4 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 2002 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.5% | −14.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SK22 4
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.
The register shows 29 SK22 4 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 151 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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.
What tenants pay around SK22 4
SK22 4 falls under High Peak, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £907 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £605 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,388, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, High Peak
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £907 a month (£10,884 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the SK22 4 market
This is a thin market: 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Common questions on SK22 4 (Birch Vale)
Is SK22 4 (Birch Vale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SK22 4 (Birch Vale)?
Are property prices falling in SK22 4 (Birch Vale)?
Will SK22 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
SK22's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 18 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SK22 district, not just SK22 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SK22 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in SK
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SK area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £330,000 | £474,050 (+44%) | £712,500 (+50%) | £1,000,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £227,000 | £265,000 (+17%) | £343,225 (+30%) | £475,000 (+38%) | £660,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £180,000 | £205,700 (+14%) | £264,000 (+28%) | £350,000 (+33%) | £483,975 (+38%) |
| Flat | £135,000 | £200,000 (+48%) | £300,000 (+50%) | £450,000 (+50%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SK area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SK22
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SK22's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SK22 1 | £242,200 | 6 |
| SK22 2 | £226,000 | 9 |
| SK22 3 | £255,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full SK22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SK22 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SK22 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SK22 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SK22 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SK22 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SK22 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SK22 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SK22 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual SK22 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.