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Claughton market report CH41 8, Birkenhead
The CH41 8 (Claughton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,597 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH41 8 (Birkenhead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 CH41 8 (Birkenhead) came in at £130,000, out of 16 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £141,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,890 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,597 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 CH41 8 is a single group of streets within CH41 (Birkenhead), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CH41 8 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 CH41 8
The CH41 8 median stands at £130,000 for 2026, built from 16 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £141,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CH41 8
By floor space, homes in CH41 8 have sold for about £1,890 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH41 8 sits 54% below the national market.
The price of a typical CH41 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £130,000 | £130,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 31 |
| 2024 | £122,500 | £130,243 | 32 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 53 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 85 |
| 2021 | £132,500 | £167,762 | 64 |
| 2020 | £118,000 | £153,107 | 23 |
| 2019 | £85,000 | £111,415 | 27 |
| 2018 | £98,000 | £130,636 | 44 |
| 2017 | £94,000 | £128,207 | 35 |
| 2016 | £95,500 | £133,605 | 48 |
| 2015 | £103,500 | £146,246 | 67 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 69 |
| 2013 | £96,200 | £138,422 | 48 |
| 2012 | £85,700 | £126,140 | 26 |
| 2011 | £70,000 | £105,673 | 15 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 31 |
| 2009 | £68,500 | £110,114 | 25 |
| 2008 | £84,500 | £138,513 | 36 |
| 2007 | £70,000 | £118,739 | 71 |
| 2006 | £67,500 | £117,171 | 58 |
| 2005 | £52,000 | £92,539 | 58 |
| 2004 | £41,000 | £74,464 | 88 |
| 2003 | £29,200 | £53,793 | 112 |
| 2002 | £26,600 | £50,048 | 76 |
| 2001 | £25,000 | £48,061 | 44 |
| 2000 | £18,600 | £36,503 | 56 |
| 1999 | £19,000 | £37,866 | 57 |
| 1998 | £20,000 | £40,371 | 65 |
| 1997 | £22,200 | £45,528 | 49 |
| 1996 | £20,000 | £42,179 | 49 |
| 1995 | £20,000 | £43,477 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical CH41 8 home went from £20,000 in 1995 to £130,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 199%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 38% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH41 8 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 2004 (+40.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−35.5%). 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) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CH41 8 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 70 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the CH41 8 market
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH41 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.
Rents around CH41 8
For renting purposes CH41 8 sits in Wirral. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £558 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,222, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wirral
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £130,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.7%. 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.
CH41 8 (Claughton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CH41 8 (Claughton)?
Are property prices falling in CH41 8 (Claughton)?
Is CH41 8 (Claughton) a good place to buy a house?
Are CH41 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 CH41 today
The live side of the market holds 98 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH41 district, not just CH41 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% 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.
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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 CH41 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CH prices by size
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in CH41
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH41, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH41 0 | £177,100 | 20 |
| CH41 1 | £172,000 | 1 |
| CH41 2 | £125,000 | 13 |
| CH41 3 | £118,000 | 3 |
| CH41 4 | £120,000 | 7 |
| CH41 5 | £149,000 | 3 |
| CH41 6 | £116,000 | 5 |
| CH41 7 | £95,000 | 1 |
| CH41 9 | £92,000 | 7 |
Zoom out to the full CH41 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH41 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CH41 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CH41 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CH41 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CH41 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH41 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH41 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CH41 8 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.