Basford Bridge Lane, Leek house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +169.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +95.0%.
Median price paid
£170,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+169.1%
Change in real terms
+95.0%
Median per m²
£4,688
HM Land Registry84 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Basford Bridge Lane, Leek prices moved
The chart tracks the median Basford Bridge Lane, Leek house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | £69,000 | £153,213 |
| 2000s | 1 | £175,000 | £318,798 |
| 2010s | 1 | £144,000 | £203,040 |
| 2020s | 2 | £330,000 | £337,174 |
The highest yearly median on record for Basford Bridge Lane, Leek is £387,500 in 2025; the lowest is £69,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £69,000 to £387,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £153,213, so the real change over the whole record is +158.4% — about +3.22% 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: +169.1% in cash against +95.0% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 17 | 7 Jul 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 69 | 7 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 160 | 10 Apr 2025 | Detached | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 166 | 27 Mar 2025 | Detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| 104a | 19 Mar 2025 | Detached | £412,000 | £420,957 |
| 134 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £330,000 | £347,239 |
| 156 | 26 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 9 | 21 Jun 2024 | Detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 107 | 7 Jun 2024 | Detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 81 | 20 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 107 | 5 Dec 2023 | Detached | £216,000 | £233,379 |
| 41 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 104 | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 21 | 29 Mar 2023 | Detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 162 | 5 Aug 2022 | Detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| 81 | 25 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 63 | 11 Mar 2021 | Detached | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 132 | 18 Jun 2020 | Detached | £277,000 | £358,650 |
| 79 | 22 May 2020 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £207,163 |
| 69 | 11 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £163,000 | £211,047 |
| 59 | 13 Feb 2020 | Detached | £265,000 | £343,113 |
| 99 | 13 Aug 2019 | Detached | £227,000 | £296,911 |
| 107 | 26 Jul 2019 | Detached | £140,300 | £183,509 |
| 110a | 27 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
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 Basford Bridge Lane, Leek values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 Basford Bridge Lane | £227,000 (2019) | £365,000 (2025) | +8.2% | +3.9% |
| 69 Basford Bridge Lane | £163,000 (2020) | £240,000 (2025) | +8.0% | +3.0% |
| 17 Basford Bridge Lane | £184,950 (2010) | £350,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 104A Basford Bridge Lane | £279,000 (2010) | £412,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 156 Basford Bridge Lane | £73,000 (2001) | £225,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 107 Basford Bridge Lane | £140,300 (2019) | £235,000 (2024) | +10.9% | +6.1% |
| 81 Basford Bridge Lane | £24,000 (1995) | £345,000 (2024) | +9.6% | +6.8% |
| 162 Basford Bridge Lane | £96,000 (1998) | £600,000 (2022) | +7.9% | +5.3% |
| 132 Basford Bridge Lane | £76,000 (1998) | £277,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 79 Basford Bridge Lane | £125,000 (2015) | £160,000 (2020) | +5.1% | +3.3% |
| 59 Basford Bridge Lane | £235,000 (2018) | £265,000 (2020) | +6.2% | +4.7% |
| 83 Basford Bridge Lane | £56,000 (1995) | £155,000 (2018) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Basford Bridge Lane, Leek 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 | 60 | 71.4% | £182,000 | £68,000 – £700,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 28.6% | £155,000 | £24,000 – £345,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Basford Bridge Lane, Leek
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 84 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 | 84 | 100.0% | £170,000 |
| New build | 1 | 1.2% | £190,000 |
| Existing home | 83 | 98.8% | £170,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.8%. 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 1 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 Basford Bridge Lane, Leek
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Staffordshire Moorlands, 30.1% of 41,355 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 269 | 0.7% |
| B | 2,731 | 6.6% |
| C | 9,465 | 22.9% |
| D | 17,983 | 43.5% |
| E | 7,362 | 17.8% |
| F | 2,529 | 6.1% |
| G | 1,016 | 2.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Staffordshire Moorlands at £719 a month as of Jun 2026 — £521 for a one-bedroom home and £855 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £170,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.08% 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 ST13, 121 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 4 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.
Against the 95,845 residents the 2021 census counted in Staffordshire Moorlands, that is 1.26 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 Basford Bridge Lane, Leek
The 2021 census counted 95,845 residents in Staffordshire Moorlands across 42,355 households. 78.6% of those households own their home and 21.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a ST13 postcode: 9 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood College | Secondary | Academy converter | 735 |
| St Edward's Church of England Academy | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 662 |
| Churnet View Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 440 |
| Leek High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 261 |
| Westwood First School | Primary | Academy converter | 251 |
| All Saints CofE First School | Primary | Academy converter | 228 |
| St Edward's CofE Academy Cheddleton | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| St Mary's Catholic Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| Beresford Memorial CofE First School | Primary | Academy converter | 153 |
| Woodcroft Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 138 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cheddleton (Churnet Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 4.0 km |
| Kingsley & Froghall (Churnet Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 9.6 km |
| Congleton Rail Station | Rail | 13.2 km |
| Longton Rail Station | Rail | 14.6 km |
Section 09
How Basford Bridge Lane, Leek compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Basford Bridge Lane, Leek sits above that national figure — +7.9%.
Within Leek the street ranks 96 of 364 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+44.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,688 per square metre, across 1 of the 84 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 £24,000 to £700,000. 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.
Basford Bridge Lane, Leek sits in Staffordshire Moorlands, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Staffordshire Moorlands at 7.3 times median local earnings of £30,801 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
- Willow Drive£149,950 median
- Cheadle Road£147,500 median
- Ashbourne Road£124,475 median
- Portland Street£114,750 median
- Ladderedge£155,250 median
- Grove Street£84,000 median
- Buxton Road£140,000 median
- Ball Haye Green£73,500 median
- Cheddleton Park Avenue£212,998 median
- Southbank Street£96,000 median
- Wallbridge Drive£135,000 median
- Shirburn Road£109,000 median
- Grosvenor Street£83,250 median
- Junction Road£86,500 median
- Mulberry Way£113,500 median
- Park Road£109,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 132 Basford Bridge Lane4 sales
- 75 Basford Bridge Lane4 sales
- 107 Basford Bridge Lane3 sales
- 81 Basford Bridge Lane3 sales
- 162 Basford Bridge Lane3 sales
- 83 Basford Bridge Lane3 sales
- 5 Basford Bridge Lane3 sales
- 99 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 17 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 69 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 104A Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 156 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 79 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 59 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 89 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 13 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 57 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 152 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 61 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 154 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 126 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 144 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 11 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
- 29 Basford Bridge Lane2 sales
Back to Leek house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Basford Bridge Lane, Leek?
The median price paid in Basford Bridge Lane, Leek across every sale on the register is £170,000. 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 Basford Bridge Lane, Leek?
84 sales are on record for Basford Bridge Lane, Leek, the most recent completing on 25 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Basford Bridge Lane, Leek house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +169.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +95.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Basford Bridge Lane, Leek house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £387,500, 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 Basford Bridge Lane, Leek?
£4,688 per square metre, from the 1 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 25 Jul 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, “Basford Bridge Lane, Leek 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.