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Blacon market report CH1 5, Chester
The standing CH1 5 (Blacon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,074 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH1 5 (Chester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the CH1 5 (Chester) median at £200,000, up 25% on five years earlier, with a mean of £205,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,510 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,074 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CH1 5 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.
Where CH1 5 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.
What buyers actually paid in CH1 5
Take the 40 registered 2026 sales in CH1 5 and the middle price, the median, is £200,000. The mean lands at £205,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CH1 5
The last five years of sales put CH1 5 at roughly £2,510 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH1 5 sits 30% below the national market.
CH1 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 155 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 125 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 120 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 115 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 127 |
| 2020 | £147,000 | £190,736 | 97 |
| 2019 | £131,500 | £172,365 | 112 |
| 2018 | £138,000 | £183,957 | 114 |
| 2017 | £132,000 | £180,035 | 114 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 135 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 121 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 109 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 91 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 77 |
| 2011 | £108,500 | £163,793 | 96 |
| 2010 | £109,000 | £170,940 | 70 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 82 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 89 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 167 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 185 |
| 2005 | £107,000 | £190,417 | 117 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 192 |
| 2003 | £69,700 | £128,404 | 210 |
| 2002 | £55,500 | £104,423 | 233 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 188 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 132 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 167 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 118 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 115 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 142 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical CH1 5 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 119%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH1 5 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 (+29.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 5
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CH1 5 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 178 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
Rents around CH1 5
The local authority for CH1 5 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £712 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,586, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £200,000 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
The shape of the CH1 5 market
This is a thin market: 40 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. Against the CH1 district median, CH1 5 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about CH1 5 (Blacon)
Is CH1 5 (Blacon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH1 5 (Blacon)?
Are property prices falling in CH1 5 (Blacon)?
Where do CH1 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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 you could buy in CH1 now
The live side of the market holds 88 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH1 district, not just CH1 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CH1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CH1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH1 1 | £263,500 | 10 |
| CH1 2 | £262,800 | 8 |
| CH1 3 | £190,000 | 20 |
| CH1 4 | £210,000 | 51 |
| 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.
Selling in CH1 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH1 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH1 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH1 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CH1 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH1 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH1 5 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.