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Boughton market report CH3 7, Chester

The CH3 7 (Boughton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,068 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH3 7 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the typical home in CH3 7 (Chester) sold for £409,800 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £431,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,068 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like CH3 7 is a single group of streets within CH3 (Chester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What buyers actually paid in CH3 7

In the CH3 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £409,800, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £431,800, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

House prices per square metre in CH3 7

Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH3 7 sales average about £3,870 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CH3 7 44% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical CH3 7 home went from £88,500 in 1995 to £409,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 113%: 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 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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

CH3 7 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 116 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.

Reading the CH3 7 market

Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH3 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the CH3 district median, CH3 7 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

The rental side of CH3 7

For renting purposes CH3 7 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). 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.

Against the £409,800 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.

CH3 7 (Boughton): the questions that come up

Where do CH3 7 prices go next?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.

CH3'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 CH3

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH3, one report each:

Zoom out to the full CH3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH3 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in CH3 7? Start from the sold record

Keep digging

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH3 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every CH3 7 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.

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.