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Claughton market report CH41, Birkenhead
The CH41 (Claughton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,662 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH41 (Birkenhead) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 76 registered 2026 sales put the CH41 (Birkenhead) median at £135,000, up 25% on five years earlier, with a mean of £141,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,590 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,662 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CH41 is a postcode district covering Birkenhead, Claughton, Seacombe in Birkenhead. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CH41 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
The 2026 median for CH41 is £135,000, taken from 76 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £141,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CH41 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH41 costs about £1,590 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, CH41 sits 53% below the national market.
A typical CH41 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 76 |
| 2025 | £121,500 | £124,405 | 189 |
| 2024 | £118,000 | £125,458 | 215 |
| 2023 | £115,000 | £126,357 | 201 |
| 2022 | £118,000 | £138,368 | 285 |
| 2021 | £108,400 | £137,248 | 280 |
| 2020 | £64,000 | £83,041 | 285 |
| 2019 | £83,200 | £109,055 | 215 |
| 2018 | £86,200 | £114,906 | 222 |
| 2017 | £80,000 | £109,112 | 223 |
| 2016 | £80,000 | £111,921 | 215 |
| 2015 | £79,200 | £111,910 | 222 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 217 |
| 2013 | £65,500 | £94,248 | 152 |
| 2012 | £78,000 | £114,806 | 109 |
| 2011 | £65,000 | £98,125 | 108 |
| 2010 | £72,200 | £113,228 | 132 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 118 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 198 |
| 2007 | £96,000 | £162,843 | 531 |
| 2006 | £76,000 | £131,926 | 414 |
| 2005 | £63,800 | £113,538 | 382 |
| 2004 | £50,000 | £90,810 | 536 |
| 2003 | £32,500 | £59,873 | 548 |
| 2002 | £32,700 | £61,525 | 438 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 316 |
| 2000 | £24,800 | £48,670 | 335 |
| 1999 | £25,000 | £49,824 | 332 |
| 1998 | £24,000 | £48,446 | 347 |
| 1997 | £25,000 | £51,270 | 324 |
| 1996 | £23,000 | £48,506 | 239 |
| 1995 | £25,000 | £54,346 | 258 |
In cash terms the typical CH41 home went from £25,000 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 148%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH41 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 2021 (+69.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−23.1%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 65% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £205,700 against £101,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CH41
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 | £205,700 (2025) | – | 155 |
| Semi-detached | £194,000 | 18 | 1,570 |
| Terraced | £117,000 | 49 | 5,610 |
| Flats | £128,500 | 8 | 1,309 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.1% | +8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 151 CH41 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 438 sales a year before the financial crisis and 193 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.
The shape of the CH41 market
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. CH41 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
Rents around CH41
For renting purposes CH41 sits in Wirral. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £558 a month here against £1,222 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wirral
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £135,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 7.4% 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.
CH41 (Claughton): the questions that come up
Is CH41 (Claughton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH41 (Claughton)?
Are property prices falling in CH41 (Claughton)?
Will CH41 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in CH41 now
Everything above is what homes in CH41 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the CH41 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
CH41 ranks 3 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 CH41, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 8 | £130,000 | 16 |
| CH41 9 | £92,000 | 7 |
How CH41 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 | £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 (this report) | £135,000 | +25% |
Thinking of selling in CH41? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH41, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH41 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH41 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CH41: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH41.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH41 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH41 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.
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.