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Blacon market report CH1 6, Chester
The CH1 6 (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: 2,318 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH1 6 (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: the 2026 median for CH1 6 (Chester) is £350,000, from 27 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £382,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,318 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CH1 6 is one sector of CH1 (Chester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CH1 6 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 6
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CH1 6 home went for £350,000. The mean is £382,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CH1 6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH1 6 sales average about £3,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH1 6 sits 23% above the national market.
The price of a typical CH1 6 home, 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 71 |
| 2024 | £337,500 | £358,832 | 57 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 49 |
| 2022 | £349,000 | £409,242 | 111 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 156 |
| 2020 | £302,500 | £392,500 | 86 |
| 2019 | £295,500 | £387,330 | 66 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 83 |
| 2017 | £303,800 | £414,353 | 78 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 97 |
| 2015 | £248,600 | £351,272 | 68 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 59 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 43 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 38 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 42 |
| 2010 | £222,900 | £349,565 | 58 |
| 2009 | £213,000 | £342,399 | 43 |
| 2008 | £271,200 | £444,554 | 38 |
| 2007 | £261,000 | £442,729 | 93 |
| 2006 | £184,200 | £319,748 | 80 |
| 2005 | £232,000 | £412,866 | 69 |
| 2004 | £194,800 | £353,795 | 88 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 83 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 101 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 78 |
| 2000 | £107,200 | £210,380 | 72 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 89 |
| 1998 | £86,500 | £174,606 | 68 |
| 1997 | £92,400 | £189,494 | 106 |
| 1996 | £82,700 | £174,411 | 72 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical CH1 6 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH1 6 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 2014 (+43.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−24.3%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The register shows 27 CH1 6 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 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
Reading the CH1 6 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH1 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CH1 district median, CH1 6 sits 58% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of CH1 6
The local authority for CH1 6 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £350,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about CH1 6 (Blacon)
How much did a house sell for in CH1 6 (Blacon)?
Are property prices falling in CH1 6 (Blacon)?
Is CH1 6 (Blacon) a good place to buy a house?
Are CH1 6 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: CH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CH1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH1, each linking to 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 5 | £200,000 | 40 |
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 6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH1 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH1 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH1 6 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 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH1 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CH1 6 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.