Birchtree Drive, Leek house prices are built from 121 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 25 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,000. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved -48.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -60.9%.
Median price paid
£170,000
Change in cash, 2011–2022
-48.3%
Change in real terms
-60.9%
Median per m²
£1,884
HM Land Registry121 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Birchtree Drive, Leek prices moved
The chart tracks the median Birchtree Drive, Leek house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 to 2022. 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 | 5 | £162,000 | £295,116 |
| 2010s | 1 | £222,500 | £313,725 |
| 2020s | 2 | £115,000 | £117,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Birchtree Drive, Leek is £222,500 in 2011; the lowest is £115,000 in 2022. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £180,000 to £115,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £333,947, so the real change over the whole record is -60.1% — about -4.98% 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: -48.3% in cash against -60.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 25 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| Apartment 9 27 | 24 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 25 | 4 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Apartment 7 11 | 4 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £104,000 | £109,433 |
| 16 | 30 Aug 2023 | Detached | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| Apartment 6 11 | 28 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £114,500 | £123,713 |
| Apartment 7 27 | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| Apartment 1 27 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| Apartment 6 27 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £97,550 | £113,020 |
| 36 | 26 Sep 2022 | Detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| Apartment 1 11 | 13 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £97,950 | £113,484 |
| 34 | 11 Mar 2022 | Detached | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 9 | 22 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 30 | 16 Jul 2021 | Detached | £281,000 | £355,027 |
| 26 | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £308,000 | £389,140 |
| Apartment 1 27 | 24 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £126,344 |
| Apartment 2 11 | 9 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| 4 | 24 Jul 2020 | Detached | £305,000 | £394,904 |
| 17 | 28 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £210,000 | £271,901 |
| 19 | 13 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £222,000 | £287,438 |
| Apartment 5 27 | 10 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £142,424 |
| Apartment 5 11 | 27 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £111,500 | £145,840 |
| 2 | 21 Aug 2019 | Detached | £335,000 | £438,173 |
| 24 | 14 Jun 2019 | Detached | £200,000 | £261,596 |
| 20 | 20 Dec 2018 | Detached | £285,500 | £380,487 |
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 Birchtree Drive, Leek values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Birchtree Drive | £179,950 (2006) | £235,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.5% |
| APARTMENT 9 27 Birchtree Drive | £114,950 (2006) | £105,000 (2025) | -0.5% | -3.3% |
| 25 Birchtree Drive | £162,000 (2007) | £195,000 (2025) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| APARTMENT 7 11 Birchtree Drive | £107,500 (2006) | £104,000 (2024) | -0.2% | -3.1% |
| 16 Birchtree Drive | £180,000 (2004) | £265,000 (2023) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| APARTMENT 6 11 Birchtree Drive | £105,000 (2006) | £114,500 (2023) | +0.5% | -2.4% |
| APARTMENT 7 27 Birchtree Drive | £119,950 (2006) | £110,000 (2022) | -0.5% | -3.2% |
| APARTMENT 1 27 Birchtree Drive | £112,500 (2007) | £120,000 (2022) | +0.4% | -2.2% |
| APARTMENT 6 27 Birchtree Drive | £90,500 (2007) | £97,550 (2022) | +0.5% | -2.2% |
| 36 Birchtree Drive | £185,000 (2004) | £330,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| APARTMENT 1 11 Birchtree Drive | £107,500 (2005) | £97,950 (2022) | -0.5% | -3.2% |
| 34 Birchtree Drive | £180,000 (2004) | £265,000 (2022) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Birchtree Drive, 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 | 59 | 48.8% | £200,000 | £132,349 – £335,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 43 | 35.5% | £107,500 | £75,000 – £179,950 |
| Terraced | 11 | 9.1% | £179,950 | £158,000 – £235,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 6.6% | £170,000 | £160,000 – £210,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Birchtree Drive, Leek
54 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67 freehold — 44.6% 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 £112,250 and the median freehold sale £194,740 — a gap of +73.5%. 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 | 54 | 44.6% | £112,250 |
| Freehold | 67 | 55.4% | £194,740 |
| New build | 48 | 39.7% | £170,000 |
| Existing home | 73 | 60.3% | £178,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.5%. 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 3 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 Birchtree Drive, 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 Birchtree Drive, 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 Birchtree Drive, Leek compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Birchtree Drive, 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 £1,884 per square metre, across 7 of the 121 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 £75,000 to £335,000. 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.
Birchtree Drive, 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
- APARTMENT 1, 11 Birchtree Drive5 sales
- APARTMENT 5, 27 Birchtree Drive5 sales
- APARTMENT 1, 27 Birchtree Drive4 sales
- 1 Birchtree Drive4 sales
- 23 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 16 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- APARTMENT 6, 27 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 36 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 30 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 26 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- APARTMENT 2, 11 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 4 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 17 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- APARTMENT 5, 11 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 20 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 7 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 18 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 28 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 50 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- 40 Birchtree Drive3 sales
- APARTMENT 9, 27 Birchtree Drive2 sales
- 25 Birchtree Drive2 sales
- APARTMENT 7, 11 Birchtree Drive2 sales
- APARTMENT 6, 11 Birchtree Drive2 sales
Back to Leek house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Birchtree Drive, Leek?
The median price paid in Birchtree Drive, 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 Birchtree Drive, Leek?
121 sales are on record for Birchtree Drive, Leek, the most recent completing on 25 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Birchtree Drive, Leek house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -48.3% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -60.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Birchtree Drive, Leek house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £222,500, set in 2011. 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 Birchtree Drive, Leek?
£1,884 per square metre, from the 7 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 Feb 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, “Birchtree Drive, 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.