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Boughton market report CH3 5, Chester
The standing CH3 5 (Boughton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,810 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH3 5 (Chester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 88 registered 2026 sales put the CH3 5 (Chester) median at £293,800, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £299,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,810 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CH3 5 is one sector of CH3 (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 CH3 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 CH3 5
Take the 88 registered 2026 sales in CH3 5 and the middle price, the median, is £293,800. The mean lands at £299,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
CH3 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH3 5 costs about £3,310 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CH3 5 3% above the country at large.
CH3 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 | £293,800 | £293,800 | 88 |
| 2025 | £284,500 | £291,303 | 222 |
| 2024 | £298,500 | £317,367 | 212 |
| 2023 | £278,500 | £306,003 | 180 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 228 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 274 |
| 2020 | £262,800 | £340,988 | 194 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 246 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 229 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 235 |
| 2016 | £198,000 | £277,004 | 260 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 295 |
| 2014 | £187,500 | £266,002 | 268 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 241 |
| 2012 | £183,500 | £270,089 | 170 |
| 2011 | £171,200 | £258,446 | 170 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 147 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 145 |
| 2008 | £177,500 | £290,960 | 126 |
| 2007 | £182,500 | £309,571 | 293 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 345 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 232 |
| 2004 | £165,500 | £300,580 | 301 |
| 2003 | £140,600 | £259,019 | 306 |
| 2002 | £112,000 | £210,727 | 381 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 322 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 313 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £151,464 | 337 |
| 1998 | £65,900 | £133,024 | 264 |
| 1997 | £62,200 | £127,560 | 322 |
| 1996 | £62,500 | £131,810 | 245 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical CH3 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £293,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH3 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 2003 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−4.7%). 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) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
CH3 5 recorded 88 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 312 sales a year before the financial crisis and 186 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.
What kind of market CH3 5 is
Within CH3, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around CH3 5
CH3 5 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.
Against the £293,800 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
Common questions on CH3 5 (Boughton)
Is CH3 5 (Boughton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH3 5 (Boughton)?
Are property prices falling in CH3 5 (Boughton)?
Will CH3 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What you could buy in CH3 now
The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH3 district, not just CH3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Nightingale Close, Farndon, Cheshire,...
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 CH3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CH area. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
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.
Other sectors in CH3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH3 6 | £355,000 | 47 |
| CH3 7 | £409,800 | 42 |
| CH3 8 | £345,000 | 37 |
| CH3 9 | £393,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full CH3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CH3 5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH3 5'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.
Estate agents working CH3 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH3 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CH3 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH3 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.
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.