Kings Drive, Wirral house prices are built from 129 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £145,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +48.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.6%.
Median price paid
£145,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+48.0%
Change in real terms
+8.6%
HM Land Registry129 salesLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Kings Drive, Wirral prices moved
The chart tracks the median Kings Drive, Wirral house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 2 | £43,500 | £96,591 |
| 2000s | 4 | £141,500 | £257,771 |
| 2010s | 2 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 3 | £185,000 | £189,022 |
The highest yearly median on record for Kings Drive, Wirral is £308,000 in 2002; the lowest is £43,500 in 1999. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £217,000 to £185,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £460,105, so the real change over the whole record is -57.7% — about -3.14% 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: +48.0% in cash against +8.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| Hilthorpe | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £1,985,000 | £1,985,000 |
| Stapledon Cottage | 8 Sep 2025 | Detached | £2,000,000 | £2,043,478 |
| 84a | 1 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 17 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 127 | 10 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 54 | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £148,750 | £156,521 |
| 105 | 24 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| 90 | 20 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 84 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £70,000 | £73,657 |
| 84a | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £70,000 | £73,657 |
| 25 | 9 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 84 | 26 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 111 | 13 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £201,000 | £217,172 |
| 57 | 25 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 78 | 21 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £216,000 | £250,255 |
| 55 | 12 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 84 | 12 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 123 | 19 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £136,713 |
| Purley | 8 Jul 2022 | Detached | £1,850,000 | £2,143,385 |
| 2 | 1 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £220,600 | £255,584 |
| 33 | 19 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 135 | 15 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 48 | 20 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £206,228 |
| Thorswood | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £1,340,000 | £1,693,011 |
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 Kings Drive, Wirral values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Kings Drive | £57,000 (2001) | £190,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| HILTHORPE Kings Drive | £1,170,000 (2015) | £1,985,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +1.7% |
| STAPLEDON COTTAGE Kings Drive | £217,000 (1997) | £2,000,000 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| 84A Kings Drive | £70,000 (2024) | £285,000 (2025) | +307.1% | +295.3% |
| 105 Kings Drive | £49,500 (1999) | £205,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 84 Kings Drive | £165,000 (2022) | £70,000 (2024) | -34.9% | -37.9% |
| 57 Kings Drive | £30,000 (1997) | £145,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 78 Kings Drive | £43,000 (1998) | £216,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.4% |
| PURLEY Kings Drive | £645,000 (2002) | £1,850,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.8% |
| 2 Kings Drive | £91,000 (2002) | £220,600 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
| 135 Kings Drive | £190,000 (2019) | £310,000 (2022) | +17.7% | +13.1% |
| THORSWOOD Kings Drive | £475,000 (1997) | £1,340,000 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kings Drive, Wirral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 73 | 56.6% | £137,000 | £21,000 – £310,000 |
| Detached | 29 | 22.5% | £1,170,000 | £65,000 – £4,200,000 |
| Terraced | 24 | 18.6% | £105,000 | £30,000 – £205,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 2.3% | £68,000 | £59,950 – £118,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Kings Drive, Wirral
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 125 freehold — 3.1% 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 £63,975 and the median freehold sale £145,000 — a gap of +126.7%. 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 | 4 | 3.1% | £63,975 |
| Freehold | 125 | 96.9% | £145,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.6% | £845,000 |
| Existing home | 127 | 98.4% | £141,300 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +498.0%. 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 2 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 Kings Drive, Wirral
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wirral, 37.1% of 163,066 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 419 | 0.3% |
| B | 10,871 | 6.7% |
| C | 49,164 | 30.1% |
| D | 68,077 | 41.7% |
| E | 27,066 | 16.6% |
| F | 5,564 | 3.4% |
| G | 1,905 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wirral at £845 a month as of Jun 2026 — £563 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £145,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.99% 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 CH48, 57 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 15 violent, 0 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times quieter.
Against the 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.18 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 Kings Drive, Wirral
The 2021 census counted 320,199 residents in Wirral across 143,252 households. 65.6% of those households own their home and 34.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a CH48 postcode: 4 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calday Grange Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,493 |
| West Kirby Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,181 |
| Hilbre High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,154 |
| West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| West Kirby Primary School | Primary | Community school | 297 |
| Black Horse Hill Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 169 |
| Black Horse Hill Infant School | Primary | Community school | 102 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| West Kirby Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Hoylake Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Manor Road Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Meols Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
Section 09
How Kings Drive, Wirral compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kings Drive, Wirral sits below that national figure — -7.9%.
Within Wirral the street ranks 1182 of 2106 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £143,000 (+1.4%).
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 £21,000 to £4,200,000. 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.
Kings Drive, Wirral sits in Wirral, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wirral at 6.1 times median local earnings of £35,483 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
- Meols Drive£230,000 median
- Raeburn Avenue£138,000 median
- Caldy Road£255,000 median
- South Parade£185,000 median
- Ennisdale Drive£175,000 median
- Orrysdale Road£99,950 median
- Riversdale Road£100,000 median
- Grange Road£214,000 median
- Grange Mount£150,000 median
- Westbourne Road£145,000 median
- Hillside Road£217,500 median
- Mostyn Avenue£168,000 median
- South Road£166,750 median
- Dunraven Road£174,998 median
- Grange Cross Lane£197,250 median
- Gleggside£174,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 13 Kings Drive5 sales
- 105 Kings Drive4 sales
- 97 Kings Drive4 sales
- 84 Kings Drive3 sales
- 78 Kings Drive3 sales
- THORSWOOD Kings Drive3 sales
- 64 Kings Drive3 sales
- 74 Kings Drive3 sales
- TYNEHAM Kings Drive3 sales
- 119 Kings Drive3 sales
- 113 Kings Drive3 sales
- 117 Kings Drive3 sales
- 35 Kings Drive2 sales
- HILTHORPE Kings Drive2 sales
- STAPLEDON COTTAGE Kings Drive2 sales
- 84A Kings Drive2 sales
- 57 Kings Drive2 sales
- PURLEY Kings Drive2 sales
- 2 Kings Drive2 sales
- 135 Kings Drive2 sales
- 41 Kings Drive2 sales
- 60 Kings Drive2 sales
- 62 Kings Drive2 sales
- 63 Kings Drive2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Kings Drive, Wirral?
The median price paid in Kings Drive, Wirral across every sale on the register is £145,000. 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 Kings Drive, Wirral?
129 sales are on record for Kings Drive, Wirral, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Kings Drive, Wirral house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Kings Drive, Wirral house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £308,000, 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 Kings Drive, Wirral?
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 5 Jun 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, “Kings Drive, Wirral 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.