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Boughton market report CH3, Chester
The standing CH3 (Boughton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 18,991 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH3 (Chester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 234 registered 2026 sales put the CH3 (Chester) median at £340,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £372,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,480 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 18,991 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CH3 is the postcode district covering Boughton, Chester, Huntington 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 CH3 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
Take the 234 registered 2026 sales in CH3 and the middle price, the median, is £340,000. The mean lands at £372,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CH3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH3 costs about £3,480 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH3 sits 19% above the national market.
A typical CH3 home, priced year by year (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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 234 |
| 2025 | £322,000 | £329,700 | 573 |
| 2024 | £332,200 | £353,197 | 558 |
| 2023 | £317,500 | £348,855 | 451 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 613 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 778 |
| 2020 | £291,000 | £377,579 | 573 |
| 2019 | £272,500 | £357,182 | 713 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 700 |
| 2017 | £269,000 | £366,889 | 830 |
| 2016 | £245,500 | £343,457 | 687 |
| 2015 | £243,500 | £344,066 | 744 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 659 |
| 2013 | £219,200 | £315,407 | 570 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 427 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 366 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 353 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 361 |
| 2008 | £208,000 | £340,956 | 321 |
| 2007 | £208,500 | £353,674 | 649 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 700 |
| 2005 | £189,500 | £337,234 | 480 |
| 2004 | £186,000 | £337,812 | 665 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 648 |
| 2002 | £127,500 | £239,890 | 807 |
| 2001 | £104,000 | £199,935 | 719 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 699 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 721 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 618 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 685 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 583 |
| 1995 | £66,200 | £143,909 | 506 |
In cash terms the typical CH3 home went from £66,200 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH3 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, 2009 (−8.7%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £475,200 against £205,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, CH3
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 | £475,200 | 74 | 6,797 |
| Semi-detached | £340,000 | 96 | 6,821 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 49 | 3,879 |
| Flats | £205,000 | 15 | 1,494 |
What CH3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
CH3 recorded 489 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 671 sales a year before the financial crisis and 486 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.
Rents around CH3
The local authority for CH3 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £340,000 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 trades
Among the 24 measurable districts of its area, CH3 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
CH3 (Boughton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CH3 (Boughton)?
Is CH3 (Boughton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH3 (Boughton)?
Are CH3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
On the market in CH3 today
Everything above is what homes in CH3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 67 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the CH3 median sold price.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Church Lane, Guilden Sutton, Chester
- Manor Park, Great Barrow, Chester, CH3
- Nightingale Close, Farndon, Cheshire,...
"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 CH3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in CH: the cost
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CH3 ranks 8 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.
Five-year change in the median, CH area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CH3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH3 5 | £293,800 | 88 |
| CH3 6 | £355,000 | 47 |
| CH3 7 | £409,800 | 42 |
| CH3 8 | £345,000 | 37 |
| CH3 9 | £393,000 | 20 |
How CH3 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 (this report) | £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 | £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 in CH3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH3'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CH3.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every CH3 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.