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Blacon market report CH1 4, Chester

The CH1 4 (Blacon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,395 HM Land Registry entries for CH1 4 (Chester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: 51 registered 2026 sales put the CH1 4 (Chester) median at £210,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £227,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,680 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,395 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

CH1 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CH1 (Chester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

Today's CH1 4 prices, from the sold record

Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CH1 4 home went for £210,000. The mean is £227,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

CH1 4 prices by floor area

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH1 4 costs about £2,680 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH1 4 trades 26% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical CH1 4 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 127%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+41.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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.

How many homes change hands in CH1 4

The register shows 51 CH1 4 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 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.

What homes rent for around CH1 4

The local authority for CH1 4 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £712 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,586 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Against the £210,000 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.

Reading the CH1 4 market

This is a thin market: 51 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.

Common questions on CH1 4 (Blacon)

Will CH1 4 prices rise from here?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.

CH1's current homes for sale

Bedroom by bedroom: CH prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in CH1

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH1, one report each:

Zoom out to the full CH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH1 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in CH1 4: what the record supports

Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH1 4. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual CH1 4 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.

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.