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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £248,750 | £453,149 |
| 2010s | 1 | £356,000 | £501,960 |
| 2020s | 1 | £658,000 | £672,304 |
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 2 Dec 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 2 Moss Cottage | 27 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| Meadowcroft | 12 Dec 2023 | Detached | £355,000 | £383,563 |
| Lime Tree Bungalow | 16 Oct 2023 | Detached | £685,000 | £740,115 |
| 102 | 3 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £486,000 | £525,103 |
| The Cedars | 30 Jun 2023 | Detached | £695,000 | £750,920 |
| Brook Cottage | 28 Apr 2023 | Detached | £658,000 | £710,943 |
| 102 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £561,915 |
| Rydal | 25 Feb 2022 | Detached | £640,000 | £741,495 |
| 108 | 28 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| Beech Trees | 10 Mar 2021 | Detached | £452,500 | £571,707 |
| Tabley Brook Farm | 20 Aug 2020 | Detached | £147,285 | £190,700 |
| 93 | 6 Aug 2020 | Detached | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| Willow Tree Barn | 28 Nov 2019 | Detached | £1,125,000 | £1,471,475 |
| 2 Royle Cottage | 22 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £275,000 | £359,694 |
| 110 | 5 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £346,614 |
| Hollybush Dairy 2 Hollybush Barns | 19 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £520,000 | £693,006 |
| Hollybush Hayloft 1 Hollybush Barns | 26 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £535,000 | £712,996 |
| 3 Hollybush Barns | 21 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £674,999 | £899,573 |
| 22 | 29 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £231,000 | £307,854 |
| Meadowcroft | 20 Nov 2017 | Detached | £235,000 | £319,836 |
| The Brambles | 17 Nov 2017 | Detached | £387,000 | £526,708 |
| Bucklow Dell | 16 Aug 2017 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £353,861 |
| Tabley Brook Farm | 4 Aug 2017 | Detached | £325,000 | £442,326 |
| 1 Royle Cottage | 1 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £459,000 | £624,701 |
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.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real 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% |
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 type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 44 | 48.9% | £325,000 | £80,000 – £1,125,000 |
| Semi-detached | 35 | 38.9% | £222,500 | £70,000 – £486,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 12.2% | £340,000 | £84,700 – £674,999 |
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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 12 | 13.3% | £283,750 |
| Freehold | 78 | 86.7% | £268,500 |
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 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 £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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knutsford Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,429 |
| Bexton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 500 |
| Manor Park Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 244 |
| Egerton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| Lower Peover CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Mobberley CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 193 |
| High Legh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 162 |
| Peover Superior Endowed Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 95 |
| St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Knutsford Rail Station | Rail | 0.1 km |
| Mobberley Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Plumley Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Ashley Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
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
- Faulkners Lane£169,975 median
- Mobberley Road£205,000 median
- Tabley Road£89,000 median
- Town Lane£239,725 median
- Grove Park£349,950 median
- Cranford Avenue£278,750 median
- Ruskin Court£82,000 median
- Bexton Road£343,500 median
- Stanley Road£200,000 median
- Warren Avenue£164,000 median
- Chester Road£448,500 median
- Chelford Road£410,000 median
- Mereheath Park£295,000 median
- Manchester Road£343,750 median
- Northwich Road£365,000 median
- King Edward Road£119,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- MEADOWCROFT Pickmere Lane4 sales
- 102 Pickmere Lane4 sales
- 110 Pickmere Lane4 sales
- THE BRAMBLES Pickmere Lane4 sales
- 2, ROYLE COTTAGE Pickmere Lane3 sales
- 22 Pickmere Lane3 sales
- 1, ROYLE COTTAGE Pickmere Lane3 sales
- 89 Pickmere Lane3 sales
- 101 Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 2, MOSS COTTAGE Pickmere Lane2 sales
- BROOK COTTAGE Pickmere Lane2 sales
- RYDAL Pickmere Lane2 sales
- BEECH TREES Pickmere Lane2 sales
- TABLEY BROOK FARM Pickmere Lane2 sales
- BUCKLOW DELL Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 116 Pickmere Lane2 sales
- OAKFIELD Pickmere Lane2 sales
- TABLEY VIEW Pickmere Lane2 sales
- WILLOW TREE HOUSE Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 112 Pickmere Lane2 sales
- THE JAYS Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 1, MOSS COTTAGE Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 91 Pickmere Lane2 sales
- 32 Pickmere Lane2 sales
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.