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Boughton market report CH3 9, Chester

The CH3 9 (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: 2,052 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH3 9 (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 middle 2026 sale in CH3 9 (Chester) came in at £393,000, out of 20 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £445,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,700 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,052 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

A postcode sector like CH3 9 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 9

The CH3 9 median stands at £393,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £445,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

What a square metre costs in CH3 9

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH3 9 costs about £3,700 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 9 38% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical CH3 9 home went from £75,200 in 1995 to £393,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2012 (+39.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−26.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

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.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in CH3 9. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 61 sales a year recently, against 76 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.

Rents around CH3 9

CH3 9 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.

£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £393,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

What kind of market CH3 9 is

Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH3 9 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 CH3 district median, CH3 9 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

Common questions on CH3 9 (Boughton)

Are CH3 9 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

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.

Thinking of selling in CH3 9? Get a rough value first

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH3 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual CH3 9 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.