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Blacon market report CH1, Chester
The CH1 (Blacon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 15,552 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH1 (Chester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH1 (Chester) came in at £222,000, out of 156 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £250,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,552 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CH1 is the postcode district covering Blacon, Chester, Higher Ferry in Chester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CH1 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
The CH1 median stands at £222,000 for 2026, built from 156 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £250,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CH1 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CH1 have sold for about £2,810 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CH1 22% below the country at large.
CH1'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £222,000 | £222,000 | 156 |
| 2025 | £207,200 | £212,155 | 478 |
| 2024 | £211,500 | £224,868 | 418 |
| 2023 | £199,000 | £218,652 | 408 |
| 2022 | £202,000 | £236,868 | 509 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 589 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 372 |
| 2019 | £168,800 | £221,256 | 409 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 563 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 475 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 616 |
| 2015 | £150,900 | £213,222 | 480 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 451 |
| 2013 | £145,500 | £209,360 | 378 |
| 2012 | £134,000 | £197,231 | 327 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 384 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 300 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 352 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 354 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 626 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 829 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 565 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 649 |
| 2003 | £107,200 | £197,488 | 722 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 768 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 623 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 519 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 591 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 420 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 469 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 434 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 318 |
In cash terms the typical CH1 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £222,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH1 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 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.0%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £357,500 against £157,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, CH1
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 | £357,500 | 18 | 2,216 |
| Semi-detached | £228,000 | 44 | 3,738 |
| Terraced | £255,000 | 45 | 4,945 |
| Flats | £157,000 | 49 | 4,653 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
The register shows 351 CH1 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 663 sales a year before the financial crisis and 394 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.
The rental side of CH1
CH1 falls under Cheshire West and Chester, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £222,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
Common questions on CH1 (Blacon)
Are property prices falling in CH1 (Blacon)?
Is CH1 (Blacon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH1 (Blacon)?
Where do CH1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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
Everything above is what homes in CH1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 88 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the CH1 median sold price.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Byron Close, CHESTER, Cheshire, CH1
- Foregate Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1
- Old Meadow Drive, CHESTER, Cheshire, CH1
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CH1 ranks 22 of 24 in the CH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the CH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CH1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| CH1 6 | £350,000 | 27 |
How CH1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CH60 | £421,200 | +3% |
| CH48 | £377,500 | +16% |
| CH3 | £340,000 | +17% |
| CH64 | £329,500 | +8% |
| CH47 | £325,000 | +3% |
| CH2 | £280,000 | +12% |
| CH4 | £275,000 | +15% |
| CH63 | £275,000 | +15% |
| CH61 | £274,000 | +5% |
| CH49 | £245,000 | +23% |
| CH43 | £236,800 | +21% |
| CH7 | £235,000 | +15% |
| CH66 | £226,000 | +8% |
| CH1 (this report) | £222,000 | +3% |
| CH62 | £222,000 | +23% |
| CH45 | £216,500 | +19% |
| CH46 | £205,600 | +16% |
| CH5 | £205,000 | +16% |
| CH6 | £181,000 | +17% |
| CH8 | £174,500 | -2% |
| CH65 | £173,000 | +8% |
| CH44 | £170,000 | +36% |
| CH42 | £168,000 | +32% |
| CH41 | £135,000 | +25% |
Selling a home in CH1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH1'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.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CH1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.