Sold Price History


Finney Lane, Cheadle house prices

Finney Lane, Cheadle house prices are built from 177 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £180,162. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +56.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.2%.

Median price paid

£180,162

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+56.3%

Change in real terms

+13.2%

Median per m²

£2,434

HM Land Registry177 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026

Section 01

How Finney Lane, Cheadle prices moved

The chart tracks the median Finney Lane, Cheadle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Finney Lane, Cheadle house prices by year, median price paid 1997 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s3£86,750£192,626
2000s6£130,750£238,188
2010s5£216,000£304,560
2020s5£295,450£301,873
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Finney Lane, Cheadle is £337,500 in 2025; the lowest is £72,000 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £72,000 to £337,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £152,662, so the real change over the whole record is +125.9% — about +2.95% 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: +56.3% in cash against +13.2% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
Flat 31 Smithy Croft, 10722 May 2026Flat or maisonette£183,750£183,750
4326 Mar 2026Semi-detached£360,000£360,000
10212 Mar 2026Semi-detached£315,000£315,000
Flat 7 Smithy Croft, 10730 Jan 2026Flat or maisonette£170,000£170,000
514 Nov 2025Semi-detached£345,000£352,500
246 Oct 2025Semi-detached£390,000£398,478
Flat 16 Smithy Croft, 10717 Sep 2025Flat or maisonette£237,000£242,152
Flat 43 Smithy Croft, 10731 Jul 2025Flat or maisonette£117,000£119,543
Flat 4 Smithy Croft, 10719 Jun 2025Flat or maisonette£239,950£245,166
20527 May 2025Semi-detached£330,000£337,174
9726 Mar 2025Semi-detached£515,000£526,196
93 Jan 2025Detached£550,000£561,957
4519 Dec 2024Semi-detached£340,000£357,761
Flat 15 Smithy Croft, 10719 Dec 2024Flat or maisonette£160,000£168,358
Flat 44 Smithy Croft, 10727 Nov 2024Flat or maisonette£232,500£244,646
16410 Jul 2024Detached£515,000£541,903
3 Willow Tree Mews31 May 2024Terraced£300,000£315,672
Flat 31 Smithy Croft, 10717 May 2024Flat or maisonette£183,750£193,349
Flat 50 Smithy Croft, 10728 Feb 2024Flat or maisonette£245,000£257,799
Flat 10 Smithy Croft, 10726 Jan 2024Flat or maisonette£239,000£251,485
18115 Nov 2023Semi-detached£320,000£345,747
9729 Sep 2023Semi-detached£440,000£475,402
1859 Aug 2023Semi-detached£548,630£592,773
Flat 17 Smithy Croft, 10730 May 2023Flat or maisonette£245,000£264,713
Flat 2 Smithy Croft, 10724 Feb 2023Flat or maisonette£239,000£258,230
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Finney Lane, Cheadle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 31 SMITHY CROFT, 107 Finney Lane£169,863 (2018)£183,750 (2026)+1.0%-2.6%
43 Finney Lane£145,000 (2003)£360,000 (2026)+4.0%+1.2%
102 Finney Lane£177,500 (2006)£315,000 (2026)+2.9%0.0%
5 Finney Lane£158,950 (2006)£345,000 (2025)+4.2%+1.2%
24 Finney Lane£290,000 (2014)£390,000 (2025)+2.7%-0.4%
FLAT 43 SMITHY CROFT, 107 Finney Lane£92,500 (2017)£117,000 (2025)+3.0%-0.6%
FLAT 4 SMITHY CROFT, 107 Finney Lane£220,000 (2021)£239,950 (2025)+2.2%-3.1%
205 Finney Lane£95,000 (1996)£330,000 (2025)+4.4%+1.7%
97 Finney Lane£250,000 (2011)£515,000 (2025)+5.3%+2.3%
FLAT 15 SMITHY CROFT, 107 Finney Lane£138,750 (2018)£160,000 (2024)+2.4%-1.6%
FLAT 44 SMITHY CROFT, 107 Finney Lane£165,000 (2014)£232,500 (2024)+3.5%+0.3%
164 Finney Lane£168,500 (1999)£515,000 (2024)+4.6%+1.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Finney Lane, Cheadle is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached8246.3%£183,000£31,500 – £548,630
Detached3720.9%£215,000£58,500 – £550,000
Flat or maisonette3720.9%£169,863£49,950 – £245,000
Terraced2111.9%£105,000£36,000 – £315,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Finney Lane, Cheadle

62 of the sales on record are leasehold and 115 freehold — 35.0% 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 £151,188 and the median freehold sale £210,000 — a gap of +38.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold6235.0%£151,188
Freehold11565.0%£210,000
New build42.3%£150,000
Existing home17397.7%£183,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.0%. 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 21 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 Finney Lane, Cheadle

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 bandCertificatesShare
A1,4890.8%
B29,55415.0%
C55,70028.2%
D73,72537.4%
E26,90613.6%
F7,5703.8%
G2,4221.2%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Cheshire East.

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 £180,162 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.54% 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.

No street-level crime was published for SK8 in Jun 2026 by Greater Manchester. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Finney Lane, Cheadle

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.

23 state and independent schools have a SK8 postcode: 19 primary, 4 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Cheadle Hulme High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,690
The Kingsway SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,260
Laurus Cheadle HulmeSecondaryFree schools1,054
St James' Catholic High SchoolSecondaryVoluntary aided school824
Gatley Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter659
Oak Tree Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school638
Bradshaw Hall Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school472
Cheadle Hulme Primary SchoolPrimaryFree schools458
Meadowbank Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter424
Etchells Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school397
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Cheadle Hulme Rail StationRail1.4 km
Gatley Rail StationRail2.1 km
Heald Green Rail StationRail2.1 km
Peel Hall (Manchester Metrolink)Tram2.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Finney Lane, Cheadle compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Finney Lane, Cheadle sits above that national figure — +14.4%.

Within Cheadle the street ranks 478 of 768 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-2.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,434 per square metre, across 11 of the 177 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 £31,500 to £550,000. 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.

Finney Lane, Cheadle 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Cheadle house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Finney Lane, Cheadle?

The median price paid in Finney Lane, Cheadle across every sale on the register is £180,162. 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 Finney Lane, Cheadle?

177 sales are on record for Finney Lane, Cheadle, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Finney Lane, Cheadle house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +56.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Finney Lane, Cheadle house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £337,500, set in 2025. 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 Finney Lane, Cheadle?

£2,434 per square metre, from the 11 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 22 May 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, “Finney Lane, Cheadle 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.