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Cheadle Hulme market report SK8 1, Cheadle
The standing SK8 1 (Cheadle Hulme) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,303 HM Land Registry entries for SK8 1 (Cheadle), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SK8 1 (Cheadle) came in at £337,500, out of 39 registered, down 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £402,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,303 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SK8 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SK8 (Cheadle). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SK8 1 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 SK8 1
The SK8 1 median stands at £337,500 for 2026, built from 39 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £402,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SK8 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SK8 1 sales average about £3,740 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SK8 1 18% above the country at large.
A typical SK8 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £337,500 | £337,500 | 39 |
| 2025 | £344,900 | £353,148 | 98 |
| 2024 | £326,500 | £347,137 | 72 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 61 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 111 |
| 2021 | £352,000 | £445,677 | 129 |
| 2020 | £374,200 | £485,532 | 105 |
| 2019 | £318,000 | £416,822 | 103 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 127 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 97 |
| 2016 | £287,500 | £402,215 | 98 |
| 2015 | £278,500 | £393,521 | 104 |
| 2014 | £200,500 | £284,444 | 94 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 71 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 79 |
| 2011 | £188,500 | £284,563 | 82 |
| 2010 | £217,500 | £341,096 | 56 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 97 |
| 2008 | £210,400 | £344,890 | 96 |
| 2007 | £246,200 | £417,624 | 132 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 115 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 104 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 106 |
| 2003 | £174,200 | £320,919 | 136 |
| 2002 | £141,000 | £265,290 | 158 |
| 2001 | £129,000 | £247,996 | 109 |
| 2000 | £142,000 | £278,675 | 133 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 153 |
| 1998 | £103,000 | £207,913 | 123 |
| 1997 | £92,000 | £188,673 | 157 |
| 1996 | £83,200 | £175,465 | 96 |
| 1995 | £73,200 | £159,126 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical SK8 1 home went from £73,200 in 1995 to £337,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SK8 1 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 2015 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−23.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SK8 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in SK8 1
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in SK8 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the SK8 1 market
This is a thin market: 39 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the SK8 district median, SK8 1 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of SK8 1
For renting purposes SK8 1 sits in Stockport. The ONS average private rent there is £1,100 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £798 a month here against £1,719 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Stockport
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £337,500 median sold price, £1,100 a month is £13,200 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about SK8 1 (Cheadle Hulme)
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What happens to SK8 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SK8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 71 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SK8 district, not just SK8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% 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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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SK8 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SK area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
SK area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SK8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SK8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SK8 2 | £322,300 | 60 |
| SK8 3 | £369,000 | 86 |
| SK8 4 | £411,200 | 46 |
| SK8 5 | £300,000 | 59 |
| SK8 6 | £440,000 | 37 |
| SK8 7 | £459,500 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full SK8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SK8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SK8 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SK8 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SK8 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SK8 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SK8 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SK8 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SK8 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.