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Boughton market report CH3 8, Chester

The standing CH3 8 (Boughton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,086 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH3 8 (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.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the typical home in CH3 8 (Chester) sold for £345,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £383,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,086 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

CH3 8 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.

What a home in CH3 8 sells for

In the CH3 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £345,000, from 37 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £383,100, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

House prices per square metre in CH3 8

By floor space, homes in CH3 8 have sold for about £3,380 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.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH3 8 trades 21% above the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical CH3 8 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 112%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2016 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−19.4%). 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

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.

Transaction volumes

The register shows 37 CH3 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 56 sales a year recently, against 69 a year before 2008. 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.

The rental side of CH3 8

CH3 8 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.

Set against the £345,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.

How CH3 8 trades

Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH3 8 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.

What people ask about CH3 8 (Boughton)

Where do CH3 8 prices go next?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

CH3's current homes for sale

Moving up a bedroom in CH: the cost

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 8? Start from the sold record

Go deeper

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH3 8. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual CH3 8 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.

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.