Water Street, Macclesfield house prices are built from 161 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £96,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +13.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -24.7%.
Median price paid
£96,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+13.0%
Change in real terms
-24.7%
Median per m²
£963
HM Land Registry161 sales20 with floor areaLatest sale 20 May 2026
Section 01
How Water Street, Macclesfield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Water Street, Macclesfield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £50,500 | £112,134 |
| 2000s | 7 | £106,250 | £193,556 |
| 2010s | 1 | £219,950 | £310,130 |
| 2020s | 2 | £222,500 | £227,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for Water Street, Macclesfield is £247,000 in 2021; the lowest is £42,750 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £42,750 to £222,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,925, so the real change over the whole record is +171.6% — about +3.77% 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: +13.0% in cash against -24.7% 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 | 20 May 2026 | Terraced | £196,500 | £196,500 |
| 33 | 18 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 5 | 20 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 55 | 14 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 71 | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £224,950 | £236,701 |
| 26 | 18 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 1 | 5 May 2023 | Terraced | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 55 | 26 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| 46 | 18 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £259,000 | £300,074 |
| 27 | 14 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 19 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 29 | 8 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 43 | 1 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £217,500 | £251,993 |
| 38 | 28 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 31 | 20 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £283,000 | £357,554 |
| 75 | 18 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 45 | 1 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £247,000 | £312,070 |
| 33 | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £239,950 | £303,163 |
| 40 | 21 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £133,000 | £168,038 |
| 34 | 7 May 2020 | Semi-detached | £113,000 | £146,309 |
| 30 | 13 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £203,926 |
| 45 | 6 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £168,000 | £217,521 |
| 37 | 13 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £200,000 | £261,596 |
| 19 | 20 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £219,950 | £287,690 |
| 32a | 6 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £124,258 |
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 Water Street, Macclesfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Water Street | £51,000 (1996) | £196,500 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 33 Water Street | £239,950 (2021) | £265,000 (2024) | +3.4% | -2.7% |
| 55 Water Street | £68,500 (1999) | £270,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 71 Water Street | £71,500 (2000) | £224,950 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 26 Water Street | £55,500 (1996) | £130,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 1 Water Street | £54,000 (1995) | £210,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 46 Water Street | £77,000 (1997) | £259,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 19 Water Street | £110,000 (2004) | £245,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 29 Water Street | £134,950 (2006) | £220,000 (2022) | +3.1% | +0.4% |
| 43 Water Street | £50,000 (1995) | £217,500 (2022) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| 38 Water Street | £26,000 (1996) | £145,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 75 Water Street | £170,000 (2003) | £285,000 (2021) | +2.9% | +0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Water Street, Macclesfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 141 | 87.6% | £100,000 | £19,000 – £410,000 |
| Semi-detached | 10 | 6.2% | £80,000 | £50,000 – £217,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 4.3% | £60,000 | £37,000 – £157,500 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.9% | £179,950 | £164,950 – £209,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Water Street, Macclesfield
92 of the sales on record are leasehold and 69 freehold — 57.1% 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 £100,350 and the median freehold sale £88,000 — a gap of -12.3%. 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 | 92 | 57.1% | £100,350 |
| Freehold | 69 | 42.9% | £88,000 |
A further 18 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 Water Street, Macclesfield
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 £96,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.28% 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 SK10, 92 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 35 violent, 4 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.
Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.23 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 Water Street, Macclesfield
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.
18 state and independent schools have a SK10 postcode: 16 primary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fallibroome Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,532 |
| Tytherington School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,421 |
| Puss Bank School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 409 |
| Marlborough Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 405 |
| Prestbury CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 322 |
| Upton Priory School | Primary | Academy converter | 277 |
| St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 268 |
| Whirley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 212 |
| Dean Valley Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 199 |
| Rainow Primary School | Primary | Community school | 194 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Macclesfield Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Prestbury Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Adlington (Cheshire) Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Alderley Edge Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Water Street, Macclesfield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Water Street, Macclesfield sits below that national figure — -39.0%.
Within Macclesfield the street ranks 1102 of 1235 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £159,000 (-39.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £963 per square metre, across 20 of the 161 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 £19,000 to £410,000. 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.
Water Street, Macclesfield 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
- Buxton Road£190,000 median
- Hurdsfield Road£105,000 median
- Prestbury Road£184,500 median
- Pavilion Way£145,000 median
- Clarence Road£179,000 median
- Lord Street£115,500 median
- Beech Farm Drive£89,975 median
- Brocklehurst Avenue£118,500 median
- Garden Street£95,000 median
- Rainow Road£162,000 median
- Eastgate£155,000 median
- Abbey Road£86,750 median
- Tytherington Drive£170,000 median
- Chelford Road£280,000 median
- Whirley Road£185,000 median
- Shrigley Road£196,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 55 Water Street6 sales
- 38 Water Street6 sales
- 34 Water Street6 sales
- 8 Water Street6 sales
- 52 Water Street5 sales
- 24 Water Street5 sales
- 16 Water Street5 sales
- 44 Water Street5 sales
- 23 Water Street4 sales
- 26 Water Street4 sales
- 1 Water Street4 sales
- 19 Water Street4 sales
- 29 Water Street4 sales
- 37 Water Street4 sales
- 81 Water Street4 sales
- 73 Water Street4 sales
- 42 Water Street4 sales
- 46 Water Street3 sales
- 43 Water Street3 sales
- 32A Water Street3 sales
- 32 Water Street3 sales
- 6 Water Street3 sales
- 21 Water Street3 sales
- 57 Water Street3 sales
Back to Macclesfield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Water Street, Macclesfield?
The median price paid in Water Street, Macclesfield across every sale on the register is £96,000. 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 Water Street, Macclesfield?
161 sales are on record for Water Street, Macclesfield, the most recent completing on 20 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Water Street, Macclesfield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +13.0% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -24.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Water Street, Macclesfield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £247,000, set in 2021. 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 Water Street, Macclesfield?
£963 per square metre, from the 20 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 20 May 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, “Water Street, Macclesfield 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.