Grove Lane, Cheadle house prices are built from 171 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £276,500. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +97.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +46.5%.
Median price paid
£276,500
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+97.7%
Change in real terms
+46.5%
Median per m²
£2,837
HM Land Registry171 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Grove Lane, Cheadle prices moved
The chart tracks the median Grove Lane, Cheadle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £90,000 | £199,843 |
| 2000s | 5 | £225,000 | £409,884 |
| 2010s | 6 | £350,000 | £493,500 |
| 2020s | 4 | £487,250 | £497,842 |
The highest yearly median on record for Grove Lane, Cheadle is £603,000 in 2021; the lowest is £81,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £81,000 to £487,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £175,708, so the real change over the whole record is +199.6% — about +4.15% 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: +97.7% in cash against +46.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 | 28 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £580,000 | £580,000 |
| 64 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £481,500 | £491,967 |
| 176 | 4 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 95 | 13 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £623,000 | £636,543 |
| Flat 9 Grove House, 100 | 18 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 189 | 16 Aug 2024 | Detached | £900,000 | £947,015 |
| 143 | 12 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £564,000 | £593,463 |
| Flat 8 Grove House, 100 | 30 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £261,000 | £282,000 |
| 181 | 31 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £437,500 | £472,701 |
| 111 | 10 Jul 2023 | Detached | £545,000 | £588,851 |
| 66 | 7 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £418,000 | £451,632 |
| 141 | 16 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £537,000 | £580,207 |
| 51 | 28 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 131 | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £595,000 | £642,874 |
| 182 | 10 Feb 2023 | Detached | £1,020,000 | £1,102,069 |
| 122 | 7 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| 25 | 15 Jul 2022 | Detached | £865,000 | £1,002,177 |
| 179 | 9 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £695,000 | £805,218 |
| Flat 6 Grove House | 31 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £277,500 | £321,508 |
| 157 | 31 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £421,500 | £488,344 |
| 55 | 10 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £317,000 | £400,511 |
| 148 | 5 Oct 2021 | Detached | £668,000 | £843,978 |
| 180 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £603,000 | £761,855 |
| 107 | 16 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 147 | 18 Jun 2021 | Detached | £660,000 | £833,871 |
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 Grove Lane, Cheadle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 Grove Lane | £395,000 (2020) | £580,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +2.1% |
| 64 Grove Lane | £395,000 (2020) | £481,500 (2025) | +4.0% | -0.8% |
| 95 Grove Lane | £250,000 (2018) | £623,000 (2025) | +13.9% | +9.7% |
| FLAT 9 GROVE HOUSE, 100 Grove Lane | £193,000 (2014) | £230,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.5% |
| 143 Grove Lane | £264,000 (2012) | £564,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 8 GROVE HOUSE, 100 Grove Lane | £74,000 (1996) | £261,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 181 Grove Lane | £94,000 (1996) | £437,500 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 141 Grove Lane | £83,500 (1997) | £537,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.7% |
| 51 Grove Lane | £120,000 (2006) | £290,000 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 182 Grove Lane | £570,000 (2016) | £1,020,000 (2023) | +8.7% | +4.8% |
| 122 Grove Lane | £132,501 (2001) | £575,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.6% |
| 25 Grove Lane | £522,250 (2017) | £865,000 (2022) | +10.6% | +7.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Grove Lane, Cheadle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 70 | 40.9% | £283,000 | £74,000 – £695,000 |
| Detached | 63 | 36.8% | £490,000 | £81,000 – £1,020,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 29 | 17.0% | £146,500 | £72,000 – £317,000 |
| Terraced | 9 | 5.3% | £155,000 | £56,000 – £260,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Grove Lane, Cheadle
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 132 freehold — 22.8% 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 £195,000 and the median freehold sale £326,250 — a gap of +67.3%. 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 | 39 | 22.8% | £195,000 |
| Freehold | 132 | 77.2% | £326,250 |
| New build | 8 | 4.7% | £275,000 |
| Existing home | 163 | 95.3% | £276,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -0.5%. 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 7 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 Grove 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 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 £276,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.26% 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 Grove 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheadle Hulme High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,690 |
| The Kingsway School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,260 |
| Laurus Cheadle Hulme | Secondary | Free schools | 1,054 |
| St James' Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 824 |
| Gatley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 659 |
| Oak Tree Primary School | Primary | Community school | 638 |
| Bradshaw Hall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| Cheadle Hulme Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 458 |
| Meadowbank Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 424 |
| Etchells Primary School | Primary | Community school | 397 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cheadle Hulme Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Gatley Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Heald Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Peel Hall (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 2.8 km |
Section 09
How Grove Lane, Cheadle compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Grove Lane, Cheadle sits above that national figure — +75.6%.
Within Cheadle the street ranks 163 of 768 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £185,000 (+49.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,837 per square metre, across 3 of the 171 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 £56,000 to £1,020,000. 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.
Grove 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
- Wilmslow Road£155,950 median
- Ladybridge Road£162,750 median
- Gatley Road£110,000 median
- Lavington Avenue£156,000 median
- Councillor Lane£157,000 median
- St Davids Road£137,000 median
- New Hey Road£144,000 median
- Bulkeley Road£165,000 median
- Cheadle Road£163,500 median
- Outwood Road£137,500 median
- Hulme Hall Road£199,950 median
- Styal Road£285,000 median
- Queensway£195,000 median
- Turves Road£170,000 median
- Finney Lane£180,162 median
- Gatley Green£73,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 107 Grove Lane7 sales
- 141 Grove Lane5 sales
- 127 Grove Lane5 sales
- FLAT 3, GROVE HOUSE, 100 Grove Lane4 sales
- 178 Grove Lane4 sales
- 31 Grove Lane4 sales
- FLAT 8, GROVE HOUSE, 100 Grove Lane3 sales
- 181 Grove Lane3 sales
- 122 Grove Lane3 sales
- 25 Grove Lane3 sales
- 179 Grove Lane3 sales
- 157 Grove Lane3 sales
- 55 Grove Lane3 sales
- 180 Grove Lane3 sales
- 123 Grove Lane3 sales
- FLAT 5, GROVE HOUSE Grove Lane3 sales
- 203 Grove Lane3 sales
- 128 Grove Lane3 sales
- 72 Grove Lane3 sales
- 70 Grove Lane3 sales
- 139 Grove Lane3 sales
- FLAT 1, GROVE HOUSE, 100 Grove Lane3 sales
- 130 Grove Lane3 sales
- 174 Grove Lane2 sales
Back to Cheadle house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Grove Lane, Cheadle?
The median price paid in Grove Lane, Cheadle across every sale on the register is £276,500. 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 Grove Lane, Cheadle?
171 sales are on record for Grove Lane, Cheadle, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Grove Lane, Cheadle house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +97.7% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +46.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Grove Lane, Cheadle house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £603,000, 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 Grove Lane, Cheadle?
£2,837 per square metre, from the 3 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 28 Jan 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, “Grove 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.