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Chester market report CH
The standing CH (Chester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 330,861 registered sales in the CH postcode area (Chester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the CH postcode area (Chester) came in at £235,000, out of 4,261 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £271,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 330,861 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for CH centred on Chester run across 24 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where CH sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CH
In the CH property market, the 2026 median sale price is £235,000, from 4,261 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £271,400, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in CH
Per square metre, CH homes have averaged around £2,610 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CH 18% below the national figure.
The price of a typical CH home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 4,261 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 9,948 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 9,121 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 8,279 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 10,668 |
| 2021 | £208,000 | £263,355 | 12,766 |
| 2020 | £187,500 | £243,285 | 9,022 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 10,279 |
| 2018 | £172,000 | £229,279 | 10,563 |
| 2017 | £168,500 | £229,817 | 10,878 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 10,598 |
| 2015 | £158,000 | £223,254 | 10,310 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 9,990 |
| 2013 | £146,000 | £210,079 | 8,404 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 6,588 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 6,728 |
| 2010 | £143,000 | £224,261 | 6,210 |
| 2009 | £141,000 | £226,659 | 5,879 |
| 2008 | £142,000 | £232,768 | 6,539 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 13,368 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 13,659 |
| 2005 | £132,500 | £235,797 | 10,731 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 13,738 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 14,605 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 15,509 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 13,768 |
| 2000 | £62,500 | £122,656 | 13,267 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 12,701 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 11,698 |
| 1997 | £52,200 | £107,052 | 11,606 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 10,243 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 8,937 |
In cash terms the typical CH home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 128%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−2.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £360,000 against £137,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CH
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £360,000 | 1,031 | 83,474 |
| Semi-detached | £238,000 | 1,788 | 132,024 |
| Terraced | £182,200 | 996 | 81,388 |
| Flats | £137,500 | 446 | 33,975 |
What CH has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 7,727 sales completed in CH. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13,581 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8,455 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CH
CH falls under Wirral, the local authority covering most of the CH area (parts fall under Cheshire West and Chester and Flintshire, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £558 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,222 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wirral
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £235,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: CH (Chester)
Is CH (Chester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH (Chester)?
Are property prices falling in CH (Chester)?
Will CH prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in CH right now
Everything above is what homes in CH sold for. The live side of the market holds 1,792 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the CH median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (7,727 in CH), the 1,792 homes listed here amount to about 3 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
7% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Beeches, Rock Ferry, Wirral, Wirral
- Church Road, Birkenhead, CH42, Birkenhead
- Parkfield Avenue, Birkenhead, CH41, Birkenhead
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CH home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
CH: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Terraced homes are 23% of what sold in CH over 2024 and 2025 but only 15% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 26% | 26% |
| Semi-detached | 43% | 40% |
| Terraced | 15% | 23% |
| Flats | 16% | 11% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (188 of them here).
Month by month: when CH sells
Across the 50,782 sales completed in CH from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.0% of the total) and April the quietest (6.9%). With so little between the busiest and quietest months, CH sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,559 | 7.0% |
| February | 3,839 | 7.6% |
| March | 5,098 | 10.0% |
| April | 3,486 | 6.9% |
| May | 3,861 | 7.6% |
| June | 4,710 | 9.3% |
| July | 4,209 | 8.3% |
| August | 4,476 | 8.8% |
| September | 4,940 | 9.7% |
| October | 4,353 | 8.6% |
| November | 4,239 | 8.3% |
| December | 4,012 | 7.9% |
What another bedroom costs in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £220,000 | £245,000 (+11%) | £290,995 (+19%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £490,000 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £167,500 | £190,000 (+13%) | £220,000 (+16%) | £285,000 (+30%) | £365,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £140,000 | £155,000 (+11%) | £160,000 (+3%) | £195,000 (+22%) | £225,000 (+15%) |
| Flat | £100,000 | £135,000 (+35%) | £180,000 (+33%) | £236,750 (+32%) | £295,000 (+25%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside CH matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH60 Heswall, Gayton | £435,000 | +7% | 101 |
| CH48 Caldy, Frankby | £375,000 | +15% | 135 |
| CH47 Hoylake, Meols | £342,000 | +9% | 67 |
| CH3 Boughton, Chester | £340,000 | +17% | 266 |
| CH64 Parkgate, Neston | £317,000 | +4% | 145 |
| CH2 Backford, Chester | £279,500 | +12% | 263 |
| CH61 Barnston, Irby | £275,000 | +6% | 133 |
| CH63 Brimstage, Bromborough | £275,000 | +15% | 177 |
| CH4 Chester, Curzon Park | £272,500 | +14% | 224 |
| CH49 Greasby, Landican | £245,000 | +23% | 212 |
| CH7 Mold, Buckley | £235,000 | +15% | 300 |
| CH43 Beechwood, Bidston | £230,000 | +18% | 218 |
| CH66 Childer Thornton, Ellesmere Port | £230,000 | +10% | 225 |
| CH62 Bromborough, Eastham | £221,000 | +22% | 223 |
| CH1 Blacon, Chester | £220,800 | +3% | 182 |
| CH45 New Brighton, Wallasey | £215,000 | +18% | 233 |
| CH5 Connah's Quay, Shotton | £210,500 | +19% | 236 |
| CH46 Leasowe, Moreton | £201,800 | +13% | 154 |
| CH6 Flint, Bagillt | £182,500 | +18% | 114 |
| CH8 Holywell, Trelogan | £175,000 | -1% | 98 |
| CH65 Ellesmere Port, Great Sutton | £174,000 | +9% | 150 |
| CH44 Egremont, Liscard | £168,800 | +35% | 144 |
| CH42 Birkenhead, Oxton | £168,000 | +32% | 169 |
| CH41 Birkenhead, Claughton | £132,500 | +22% | 92 |
Selling in CH? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CH. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.