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Oxton market report CH42 4, Birkenhead
The CH42 4 (Oxton) 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: 1,845 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH42 4 (Birkenhead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH42 4 (Birkenhead) came in at £149,000, out of 21 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £162,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,845 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 CH42 4 is a single group of streets within CH42 (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 CH42 4 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 a home in CH42 4 sells for
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CH42 4 home went for £149,000. The mean is £162,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CH42 4
The last five years of sales put CH42 4 at roughly £1,810 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CH42 4 48% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CH42 4 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £149,000 | £149,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £152,500 | £156,147 | 44 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 39 |
| 2023 | £137,000 | £150,530 | 41 |
| 2022 | £134,000 | £157,130 | 62 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 62 |
| 2020 | £107,500 | £139,483 | 40 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 34 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 65 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 71 |
| 2016 | £116,000 | £162,285 | 61 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 51 |
| 2014 | £124,000 | £175,916 | 53 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 35 |
| 2012 | £101,000 | £148,659 | 39 |
| 2011 | £97,500 | £147,188 | 26 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 25 |
| 2009 | £104,000 | £167,181 | 19 |
| 2008 | £107,800 | £176,707 | 40 |
| 2007 | £110,900 | £188,117 | 122 |
| 2006 | £109,000 | £189,210 | 110 |
| 2005 | £102,000 | £181,519 | 73 |
| 2004 | £86,000 | £156,193 | 136 |
| 2003 | £61,500 | £113,298 | 83 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 73 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 73 |
| 2000 | £47,000 | £92,238 | 75 |
| 1999 | £44,200 | £88,088 | 76 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 57 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 47 |
| 1996 | £33,200 | £70,017 | 48 |
| 1995 | £36,800 | £79,998 | 44 |
In cash terms the typical CH42 4 home went from £36,800 in 1995 to £149,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 86%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH42 4 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 (+39.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−31.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CH42 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in CH42 4
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 21 CH42 4 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 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
What tenants pay around CH42 4
The local authority for CH42 4 is Wirral, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £558 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,222 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £149,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. 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.
How CH42 4 trades
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH42 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the CH42 district median, CH42 4 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on CH42 4 (Oxton)
How much did a house sell for in CH42 4 (Oxton)?
Are property prices falling in CH42 4 (Oxton)?
Is CH42 4 (Oxton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CH42 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
What is for sale in CH42 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 177 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH42 district, not just CH42 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Beeches, Rock Ferry, Wirral, Wirral
- Burrell Close, Prenton, Wirral
- Briardale Road, Birkenhead, Wirral
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 CH42 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
Winners and losers across the CH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CH42
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH42, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH42 0 | £136,200 | 12 |
| CH42 1 | £175,000 | 7 |
| CH42 2 | £114,000 | 17 |
| CH42 3 | £147,500 | 8 |
| CH42 5 | £122,500 | 12 |
| CH42 6 | £199,000 | 26 |
| CH42 7 | £168,000 | 7 |
| CH42 8 | £475,000 | 13 |
| CH42 9 | £167,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full CH42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH42 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CH42 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH42 4'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.
Estate agents working CH42 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH42 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH42 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CH42 4 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.
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.