Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle house prices are built from 130 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £154,475. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +83.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.3%.
Median price paid
£154,475
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+83.0%
Change in real terms
+30.3%
Median per m²
£2,009
HM Land Registry130 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shakespeare Drive, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £56,250 | £124,902 |
| 2000s | 6 | £144,725 | £263,646 |
| 2010s | 3 | £170,500 | £240,405 |
| 2020s | 3 | £312,000 | £318,783 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle is £350,000 in 2023; the lowest is £56,250 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £56,250 to £312,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,267, so the real change over the whole record is +167.3% — about +3.57% 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: +83.0% in cash against +30.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 23 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £85,000 | £85,000 |
| 55 | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 93 | 5 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| 42 | 17 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 4 | 4 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £432,000 | £441,391 |
| 60 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 50 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £312,000 | £318,783 |
| 73 | 18 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £349,950 | £378,107 |
| 9 | 14 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £425,500 | £459,736 |
| 16 | 25 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 74 | 12 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 56 | 14 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 17 | 6 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £386,000 | £417,057 |
| 12 | 31 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £453,793 |
| 24 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 43 | 22 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £446,056 |
| 50 | 21 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| 45 | 4 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 69 | 2 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 3 | 22 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 93 | 13 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £336,639 |
| 72 | 28 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £308,154 |
| 84 | 7 Aug 2020 | Detached | £398,500 | £515,964 |
| 34 | 27 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 10 | 8 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £353,154 |
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 Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 Shakespeare Drive | £65,000 (1999) | £85,000 (2026) | +1.0% | -1.6% |
| 55 Shakespeare Drive | £153,000 (2007) | £345,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 93 Shakespeare Drive | £132,000 (2004) | £310,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 42 Shakespeare Drive | £171,000 (2006) | £280,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 4 Shakespeare Drive | £72,000 (1999) | £432,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 60 Shakespeare Drive | £53,500 (1996) | £315,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 50 Shakespeare Drive | £66,000 (1999) | £312,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 73 Shakespeare Drive | £138,000 (2009) | £349,950 (2023) | +6.9% | +3.7% |
| 9 Shakespeare Drive | £60,000 (1997) | £425,500 (2023) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| 16 Shakespeare Drive | £181,500 (2019) | £350,000 (2023) | +17.8% | +12.3% |
| 56 Shakespeare Drive | £158,000 (2004) | £215,000 (2023) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| 17 Shakespeare Drive | £68,500 (1998) | £386,000 (2023) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shakespeare Drive, 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 | 123 | 94.6% | £154,000 | £45,000 – £432,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 3.1% | £175,000 | £46,000 – £398,500 |
| Terraced | 3 | 2.3% | £158,000 | £150,000 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 130 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 130 | 100.0% | £154,475 |
A further 4 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 Shakespeare Drive, 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 £154,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.63% 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 Shakespeare Drive, 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 Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle sits below that national figure — -1.9%.
Within Cheadle the street ranks 596 of 768 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-16.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,009 per square metre, across 25 of the 130 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 £45,000 to £432,000. 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.
Shakespeare Drive, 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
- 9 Shakespeare Drive6 sales
- 93 Shakespeare Drive5 sales
- 50 Shakespeare Drive5 sales
- 24 Shakespeare Drive5 sales
- 4 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 60 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 10 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 61 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 89 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 65 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 48 Shakespeare Drive4 sales
- 17 Shakespeare Drive3 sales
- 45 Shakespeare Drive3 sales
- 69 Shakespeare Drive3 sales
- 32 Shakespeare Drive3 sales
- 53 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 55 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 42 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 73 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 16 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 56 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 12 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 43 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
- 39 Shakespeare Drive2 sales
Back to Cheadle house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle?
The median price paid in Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle across every sale on the register is £154,475. 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 Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle?
130 sales are on record for Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +83.0% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £350,000, set in 2023. 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 Shakespeare Drive, Cheadle?
£2,009 per square metre, from the 25 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 23 Mar 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, “Shakespeare Drive, 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.