High Peak house prices

High Peak house prices are built from 17,047 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £149,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +39.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is 0.0%.

HM Land Registry17,047 sales278 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median High Peak house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for High Peak is £280,000 in 2025; the lowest is £49,950 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £261,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +130.5% — about +2.73% 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: +39.6% in cash against 0.0% 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.

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.

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 High Peak values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,111 certificates cover High Peak, and their median floor area is 83 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

6,496 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,551 freehold — 38.1% 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 £134,000 and the median freehold sale £160,000 — a gap of +19.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +27.6%. 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 824 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.

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.

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 £149,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.88% 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.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SK23, 14 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 10 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 11.9 times quieter.

Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.04 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

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.

9 state and independent schools have a SK23 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Peak sits below that national figure — -5.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,188 per square metre, across 278 of the 17,047 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 £350 to £1,750,000. 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.

High Peak sits in Cheshire East, in the East Midlands.

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.

Streets in High Peak

• Buxton Road822 sales
• Hayfield Road334 sales
• Macclesfield Road259 sales
• New Mills Road258 sales
• Market Street257 sales
• Hyde Bank Road209 sales
• Manchester Road206 sales
• Low Leighton Road179 sales
• Laneside Road169 sales
• Kinder Road168 sales
• Church Road165 sales
• Old Road164 sales
• Western Lane149 sales
• Rowton Grange Road145 sales
• Sovereign Way144 sales
• Danesway140 sales
• New Street139 sales
• Bridge Street133 sales
• Mellor Road124 sales
• Eccles Road123 sales
• Albion Road122 sales
• High Street119 sales
• Glossop Road118 sales
• St Georges Road112 sales
• Horse Fair Avenue110 sales
• Frith View108 sales
• Park Road107 sales
• Lower Lane105 sales
• Chapel Street102 sales
• Jubilee Street99 sales
• Chapel Road97 sales
• High Hill Road96 sales
• Whaley Lane95 sales
• New Road93 sales
• Wirksmoor Road92 sales
• Station Road91 sales
• Yeardsley Lane89 sales
• Hague Bar86 sales
• Arden Street83 sales
• Burrfields Road82 sales
• Slack Lane80 sales
• South Head Drive78 sales
• Crossings Road77 sales
• Burnside Avenue76 sales
• High Lea Road76 sales
• Bridgemont75 sales
• Whitehough75 sales
• Highfield Terrace73 sales
• Green Lane72 sales
• Ash Grove71 sales
• Long Lane70 sales
• Jodrell Meadow69 sales
• Marsh Lane69 sales
• Woodbrook69 sales
• Belgrade Avenue67 sales
• Hall Street66 sales
• Hill Drive66 sales
• Godward Road63 sales
• Bowden Lane62 sales
• Church Street62 sales

Postcode districts covering High Peak

• SK23£159,950 median
• SK22£135,000 median

What is the average house price in High Peak?

The median price paid in High Peak across every sale on the register is £149,500. 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 High Peak?

17,047 sales are on record for High Peak, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have High Peak house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +39.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is 0.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were High Peak house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £280,000, 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 High Peak?

£3,188 per square metre, from the 278 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 18 Jun 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, “High Peak 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.