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Blacon market report CH1 3, Chester
The CH1 3 (Blacon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,864 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH1 3 (Chester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH1 3 (Chester) came in at £190,000, out of 20 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £199,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,864 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CH1 3 is a single group of streets within CH1 (Chester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CH1 3 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 CH1 3
The CH1 3 median stands at £190,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £199,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CH1 3
A square metre of CH1 3 home has cost about £2,650 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CH1 3 runs 33% below it.
CH1 3's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £171,100 | £175,192 | 80 |
| 2024 | £171,200 | £182,021 | 94 |
| 2023 | £176,800 | £194,260 | 84 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 91 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 115 |
| 2020 | £153,000 | £198,521 | 39 |
| 2019 | £142,000 | £186,128 | 77 |
| 2018 | £103,200 | £137,568 | 166 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 73 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 186 |
| 2015 | £136,800 | £193,298 | 82 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 93 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 67 |
| 2012 | £114,500 | £168,530 | 72 |
| 2011 | £123,500 | £186,438 | 96 |
| 2010 | £124,600 | £195,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | £103,000 | £165,573 | 81 |
| 2008 | £133,400 | £218,671 | 48 |
| 2007 | £154,800 | £262,584 | 113 |
| 2006 | £168,900 | £293,189 | 296 |
| 2005 | £155,500 | £276,727 | 217 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 89 |
| 2003 | £90,300 | £166,354 | 76 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 74 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 46 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 61 |
| 1999 | £52,500 | £104,630 | 61 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 63 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 46 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 54 |
| 1995 | £41,100 | £89,345 | 26 |
In cash terms the typical CH1 3 home went from £41,100 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 113%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 35% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH1 3 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 (+66.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−28.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.0% | +8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in CH1 3
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 20 CH1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of CH1 3
CH1 3 falls under Cheshire West and Chester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £712 a month here against £1,586 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £190,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How CH1 3 trades
This is a thin market: 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within CH1, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about CH1 3 (Blacon)
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What happens to CH1 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in CH1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 88 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH1 district, not just CH1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Byron Close, CHESTER, Cheshire, CH1
- Foregate Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1
- Old Meadow Drive, CHESTER, Cheshire, CH1
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CH1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | — | £248,000 | £350,000 (+41%) | £557,000 (+59%) | £782,500 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £200,000 (+18%) | £245,000 (+23%) | £330,000 (+35%) | £425,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £145,500 | £158,000 (+9%) | £170,000 (+8%) | £227,500 (+34%) | £310,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £112,500 | £157,000 (+40%) | £230,000 (+46%) | £335,000 (+46%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CH1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH1 1 | £263,500 | 10 |
| CH1 2 | £262,800 | 8 |
| CH1 4 | £210,000 | 51 |
| CH1 5 | £200,000 | 40 |
| CH1 6 | £350,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full CH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CH1 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual CH1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.