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Cheadle Hulme market report SK8, Cheadle
The standing SK8 (Cheadle Hulme) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 31,720 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SK8 (Cheadle) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical SK8 (Cheadle) home changed hands for £375,000 in 2026 (median of 444 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £397,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 31,720 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SK8 covering Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Gatley sits in Cheadle. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SK8 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.
What a home in SK8 sells for
Take the 444 registered 2026 sales in SK8 and the middle price, the median, is £375,000. The mean lands at £397,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SK8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SK8 costs about £3,900 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SK8 32% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SK8 home, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 444 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 963 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 820 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 779 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 966 |
| 2021 | £322,900 | £408,833 | 1,251 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 897 |
| 2019 | £278,300 | £364,785 | 978 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 1,107 |
| 2017 | £256,000 | £349,158 | 1,043 |
| 2016 | £243,800 | £341,079 | 1,043 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 1,100 |
| 2014 | £212,200 | £301,043 | 1,096 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 857 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 716 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 689 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 680 |
| 2009 | £179,500 | £288,548 | 683 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 612 |
| 2007 | £201,000 | £340,952 | 1,197 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 1,224 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 890 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 1,204 |
| 2003 | £151,000 | £278,179 | 1,240 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 1,335 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 1,229 |
| 2000 | £95,500 | £187,419 | 1,183 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 1,301 |
| 1998 | £77,400 | £156,237 | 1,166 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 1,249 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 1,026 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 752 |
In cash terms the typical SK8 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SK8 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 2003 (+20.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £553,800 against £176,200 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SK8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £553,800 | 114 | 8,665 |
| Semi-detached | £380,000 | 195 | 14,451 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 71 | 5,221 |
| Flats | £176,200 | 64 | 3,383 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.2% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SK8 recorded 747 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 794 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.
Rents around SK8
SK8 falls under Stockport, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,100 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £798 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,719 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Stockport
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £375,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,100 a month (£13,200 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
The shape of the SK8 market
Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, SK8 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
SK8 (Cheadle Hulme): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SK8 (Cheadle Hulme)?
Are property prices falling in SK8 (Cheadle Hulme)?
Is SK8 (Cheadle Hulme) a good place to buy a house?
Will SK8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SK8 now
Everything above is what homes in SK8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 8 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 55% below the SK8 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (747 in SK8), the 8 homes listed here amount to about a week of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
See every SK8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Month by month: when SK8 sells
Across the 4,779 sales completed in SK8 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.9% of the total) and January the quietest (6.4%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 306 | 6.4% |
| February | 409 | 8.6% |
| March | 522 | 10.9% |
| April | 347 | 7.3% |
| May | 316 | 6.6% |
| June | 501 | 10.5% |
| July | 360 | 7.5% |
| August | 442 | 9.2% |
| September | 504 | 10.5% |
| October | 371 | 7.8% |
| November | 360 | 7.5% |
| December | 341 | 7.1% |
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | £310,000 | £335,000 (+8%) | £395,000 (+18%) | £525,000 (+33%) | £721,750 (+37%) |
| Semi-detached | £227,000 | £250,000 (+10%) | £305,000 (+22%) | £392,500 (+29%) | £526,250 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £175,000 | £197,500 (+13%) | £230,000 (+16%) | £295,000 (+28%) | £386,934 (+31%) |
| Flat | £122,000 | £165,000 (+35%) | £250,000 (+52%) | £297,000 (+19%) | £443,000 (+49%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SK8 ranks 10 of 19 in the SK area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, SK area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SK8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SK8 1 | £350,000 | 47 |
| SK8 2 | £315,000 | 67 |
| SK8 3 | £367,200 | 102 |
| SK8 4 | £410,000 | 55 |
| SK8 5 | £315,000 | 67 |
| SK8 6 | £440,000 | 48 |
| SK8 7 | £468,500 | 58 |
How SK8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SK area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SK12 | £440,000 | +22% |
| SK9 | £425,000 | +0% |
| SK7 | £400,000 | +10% |
| SK8 (this report) | £375,000 | +16% |
| SK10 | £359,500 | +9% |
| SK4 | £330,000 | +6% |
| SK6 | £320,000 | +19% |
| SK2 | £279,000 | +15% |
| SK23 | £275,000 | +9% |
| SK11 | £265,000 | +15% |
| SK3 | £264,500 | +23% |
| SK13 | £257,500 | +17% |
| SK17 | £255,000 | +18% |
| SK22 | £250,000 | +14% |
| SK5 | £235,000 | +28% |
| SK16 | £231,000 | +25% |
| SK15 | £220,000 | +16% |
| SK1 | £219,200 | +37% |
| SK14 | £218,000 | +20% |
Selling in SK8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SK8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SK8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SK8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.