Sold Price History


Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house prices

Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house prices are built from 90 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 2 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £268,500. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved +130.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +43.5%.

Median price paid

£268,500

Change in cash, 2007–2023

+130.9%

Change in real terms

+43.5%

HM Land Registry90 salesLatest sale 2 Dec 2025

Section 01

How Pickmere Lane, Knutsford prices moved

The chart tracks the median Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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.

Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house prices by year, median price paid 2003 to 2023
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
2000s2£248,750£453,149
2010s1£356,000£501,960
2020s1£658,000£672,304
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Pickmere Lane, Knutsford is £658,000 in 2023; the lowest is £248,750 in 2003. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £248,750 to £658,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £470,158, so the real change over the whole record is +51.2% — about +2.09% 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: +130.9% in cash against +43.5% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
1012 Dec 2025Detached£380,000£388,261
2 Moss Cottage27 Oct 2025Semi-detached£415,000£424,022
Meadowcroft12 Dec 2023Detached£355,000£383,563
Lime Tree Bungalow16 Oct 2023Detached£685,000£740,115
1023 Jul 2023Semi-detached£486,000£525,103
The Cedars30 Jun 2023Detached£695,000£750,920
Brook Cottage28 Apr 2023Detached£658,000£710,943
10219 Aug 2022Semi-detached£485,000£561,915
Rydal25 Feb 2022Detached£640,000£741,495
10828 Jun 2021Semi-detached£225,000£284,274
Beech Trees10 Mar 2021Detached£452,500£571,707
Tabley Brook Farm20 Aug 2020Detached£147,285£190,700
936 Aug 2020Detached£365,000£472,590
Willow Tree Barn28 Nov 2019Detached£1,125,000£1,471,475
2 Royle Cottage22 Nov 2019Terraced£275,000£359,694
1105 Apr 2019Semi-detached£265,000£346,614
Hollybush Dairy 2 Hollybush Barns19 Dec 2018Terraced£520,000£693,006
Hollybush Hayloft 1 Hollybush Barns26 Oct 2018Terraced£535,000£712,996
3 Hollybush Barns21 Sep 2018Terraced£674,999£899,573
2229 Mar 2018Semi-detached£231,000£307,854
Meadowcroft20 Nov 2017Detached£235,000£319,836
The Brambles17 Nov 2017Detached£387,000£526,708
Bucklow Dell16 Aug 2017Semi-detached£260,000£353,861
Tabley Brook Farm4 Aug 2017Detached£325,000£442,326
1 Royle Cottage1 Aug 2017Terraced£459,000£624,701
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 Pickmere Lane, Knutsford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
101 Pickmere Lane£307,500 (2015)£380,000 (2025)+2.1%-1.1%
2 MOSS COTTAGE Pickmere Lane£124,750 (1997)£415,000 (2025)+4.4%+1.7%
MEADOWCROFT Pickmere Lane£140,000 (2003)£355,000 (2023)+4.8%+1.9%
102 Pickmere Lane£70,000 (1998)£486,000 (2023)+8.1%+5.3%
BROOK COTTAGE Pickmere Lane£357,500 (2003)£658,000 (2023)+3.1%+0.3%
RYDAL Pickmere Lane£198,000 (1999)£640,000 (2022)+5.2%+2.7%
BEECH TREES Pickmere Lane£162,000 (1998)£452,500 (2021)+4.6%+2.3%
TABLEY BROOK FARM Pickmere Lane£325,000 (2017)£147,285 (2020)-23.2%-24.5%
2 ROYLE COTTAGE Pickmere Lane£84,700 (1999)£275,000 (2019)+6.1%+3.7%
110 Pickmere Lane£135,000 (2004)£265,000 (2019)+4.6%+2.2%
22 Pickmere Lane£79,100 (2003)£231,000 (2018)+7.4%+4.9%
THE BRAMBLES Pickmere Lane£272,000 (2005)£387,000 (2017)+3.0%+0.5%
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. Pickmere Lane, Knutsford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Detached4448.9%£325,000£80,000 – £1,125,000
Semi-detached3538.9%£222,500£70,000 – £486,000
Terraced1112.2%£340,000£84,700 – £674,999
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Pickmere Lane, Knutsford

12 of the sales on record are leasehold and 78 freehold — 13.3% 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 £283,750 and the median freehold sale £268,500 — a gap of -5.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold1213.3%£283,750
Freehold7886.7%£268,500
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

A further 12 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 Pickmere Lane, Knutsford

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 £268,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.39% 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 WA16, 66 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 27 violent, 2 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times quieter.

Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.17 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.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Pickmere Lane, Knutsford

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 WA16 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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Knutsford AcademySecondaryAcademy converter1,429
Bexton Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter500
Manor Park Primary School and NurseryPrimaryAcademy converter244
Egerton Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter225
Lower Peover CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter208
Mobberley CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school193
High Legh Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school162
Peover Superior Endowed Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led95
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Knutsford Rail StationRail0.1 km
Mobberley Rail StationRail3.9 km
Plumley Rail StationRail4.5 km
Ashley Rail StationRail6.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Pickmere Lane, Knutsford compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Pickmere Lane, Knutsford sits above that national figure — +70.5%.

Within Knutsford the street ranks 210 of 389 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £249,000 (+7.8%).

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.

The full range on record runs from £70,000 to £1,125,000. 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.

Pickmere Lane, Knutsford 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 Knutsford house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Pickmere Lane, Knutsford?

The median price paid in Pickmere Lane, Knutsford across every sale on the register is £268,500. 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 Pickmere Lane, Knutsford?

90 sales are on record for Pickmere Lane, Knutsford, the most recent completing on 2 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +130.9% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +43.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Pickmere Lane, Knutsford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £658,000, 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 Pickmere Lane, Knutsford?

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 2 Dec 2025. 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, “Pickmere Lane, Knutsford 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.