Waterside Drive, Market Drayton house prices are built from 121 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £87,500. Across the 6 years from 1996 to 2002 the median moved +127.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +102.2%.
Median price paid
£87,500
Change in cash, 1996–2002
+127.4%
Change in real terms
+102.2%
Median per m²
£1,318
HM Land Registry121 sales39 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Waterside Drive, Market Drayton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Waterside Drive, Market Drayton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2002. 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 | 4 | £57,950 | £128,676 |
| 2000s | 3 | £90,000 | £163,953 |
The highest yearly median on record for Waterside Drive, Market Drayton is £108,000 in 2002; the lowest is £47,500 in 1996. Across the full 7-year record the cash median has moved from £47,500 to £108,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £103,038, so the real change over the whole record is +102.2% — about +12.45% 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: +127.4% in cash against +102.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 29 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 17 | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 3 | 19 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 18 | 22 Apr 2024 | Detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 27 | 8 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £198,000 | £208,343 |
| 41 | 22 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £248,000 | £267,954 |
| 32 | 22 Sep 2023 | Detached | £242,100 | £261,579 |
| 45 | 16 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 11 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 27 | 5 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £212,500 | £268,481 |
| 7 | 5 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £160,000 | £207,163 |
| 16 | 30 Nov 2018 | Detached | £205,000 | £273,204 |
| 51 | 16 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £154,500 | £205,903 |
| 23 | 5 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £165,000 | £219,896 |
| 5 | 22 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 14 | 17 Feb 2017 | Detached | £238,500 | £324,599 |
| 41 | 12 May 2016 | Terraced | £151,000 | £210,802 |
| 5 | 23 Feb 2015 | Terraced | £166,000 | £234,060 |
| 26 | 31 Jan 2014 | Detached | £225,000 | £322,737 |
| 29 | 6 Sep 2013 | Terraced | £140,000 | £204,137 |
| 5 | 30 Nov 2012 | Terraced | £145,000 | £216,578 |
| 32 | 10 May 2012 | Detached | £160,000 | £238,983 |
| 12 | 20 Oct 2011 | Detached | £182,000 | £278,935 |
| 19 | 18 Feb 2011 | Terraced | £134,000 | £205,370 |
| 12 | 27 Aug 2010 | Detached | £167,000 | £266,670 |
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 Waterside Drive, Market Drayton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 Waterside Drive | £54,950 (1997) | £180,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 17 Waterside Drive | £46,500 (1996) | £205,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| 3 Waterside Drive | £46,000 (1996) | £175,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 18 Waterside Drive | £66,950 (1996) | £270,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 27 Waterside Drive | £54,250 (1997) | £198,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 41 Waterside Drive | £49,750 (1996) | £248,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 32 Waterside Drive | £65,950 (1997) | £242,100 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 45 Waterside Drive | £53,950 (1996) | £190,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
| 11 Waterside Drive | £53,950 (1996) | £180,000 (2021) | +4.9% | +2.7% |
| 7 Waterside Drive | £46,500 (1996) | £160,000 (2020) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| 16 Waterside Drive | £75,750 (1997) | £205,000 (2018) | +4.9% | +2.6% |
| 51 Waterside Drive | £47,250 (1996) | £154,500 (2018) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waterside Drive, Market Drayton 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 | 78 | 64.5% | £75,950 | £45,500 – £248,000 |
| Detached | 43 | 35.5% | £98,500 | £65,950 – £270,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Waterside Drive, Market Drayton
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 121 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 | 121 | 100.0% | £87,500 |
| New build | 35 | 28.9% | £65,950 |
| Existing home | 86 | 71.1% | £121,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.7%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Waterside Drive, Market Drayton
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 £87,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.47% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Waterside Drive, Market Drayton
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.
14 state and independent schools have a TF9 postcode: 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grove School | Secondary | Academy converter | 856 |
| Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 346 |
| Market Drayton Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 333 |
| Hugo Meynell CofE (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 206 |
| Longlands Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 201 |
| Hodnet Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 193 |
| Hinstock Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 124 |
| Stoke-on-Tern Primary School | Primary | Community school | 118 |
| Moreton Say CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 111 |
| Buntingsdale Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 76 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Prees Rail Station | Rail | 14.8 km |
| Whitchurch (Shrops) Rail Station | Rail | 15.7 km |
| Wrenbury Rail Station | Rail | 16.0 km |
| Wem Rail Station | Rail | 17.3 km |
Section 09
How Waterside Drive, Market Drayton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waterside Drive, Market Drayton sits below that national figure — -44.4%.
Within Market Drayton the street ranks 355 of 383 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-45.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,318 per square metre, across 39 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 £45,500 to £270,000. 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.
Waterside Drive, Market Drayton sits in Cheshire East, in England.
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
- Shrewsbury Road£110,000 median
- Elm Drive£122,000 median
- Riverside Drive£84,950 median
- Victoria Road£110,000 median
- Longslow Road£130,000 median
- Frogmore Road£99,975 median
- Chancel Drive£135,000 median
- Hampton Drive£175,000 median
- Newcastle Road£237,500 median
- Sherwood Crescent£142,000 median
- Mercian Court£72,000 median
- Hugo Way£265,000 median
- Salisbury Road£115,750 median
- Chestnut Road£119,498 median
- Farcroft Drive£139,250 median
- Smithfield Road£130,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Waterside Drive6 sales
- 51 Waterside Drive6 sales
- 5 Waterside Drive5 sales
- 19 Waterside Drive5 sales
- 17 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 3 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 27 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 41 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 32 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 12 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 35 Waterside Drive4 sales
- 55 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 45 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 23 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 26 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 29 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 21 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 37 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 43 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 44 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 40 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 10 Waterside Drive3 sales
- 11 Waterside Drive2 sales
- 7 Waterside Drive2 sales
Back to Market Drayton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Waterside Drive, Market Drayton?
The median price paid in Waterside Drive, Market Drayton across every sale on the register is £87,500. 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 Waterside Drive, Market Drayton?
121 sales are on record for Waterside Drive, Market Drayton, the most recent completing on 29 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Waterside Drive, Market Drayton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +127.4% between 1996 and 2002. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +102.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Waterside Drive, Market Drayton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £108,000, set in 2002. 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 Waterside Drive, Market Drayton?
£1,318 per square metre, from the 39 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 29 Aug 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, “Waterside Drive, Market Drayton 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.