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Oxton market report CH42 6, Birkenhead
The standing CH42 6 (Oxton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,947 HM Land Registry entries for CH42 6 (Birkenhead), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CH42 6 (Birkenhead) sold for £199,000 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier. The mean was £200,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,930 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,947 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CH42 6 is one sector of CH42 (Birkenhead): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CH42 6 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.
The going rate for a home in CH42 6
Take the 26 registered 2026 sales in CH42 6 and the middle price, the median, is £199,000. The mean lands at £200,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CH42 6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH42 6 sales average about £1,930 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CH42 6 30% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CH42 6 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £199,000 | £199,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 57 |
| 2024 | £178,000 | £189,251 | 51 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 55 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 52 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 70 |
| 2020 | £137,000 | £177,760 | 33 |
| 2019 | £153,500 | £201,202 | 40 |
| 2018 | £149,000 | £198,620 | 75 |
| 2017 | £169,000 | £230,499 | 108 |
| 2016 | £144,200 | £201,737 | 74 |
| 2015 | £126,500 | £178,745 | 44 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 57 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 48 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 26 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 31 |
| 2010 | £117,000 | £183,486 | 37 |
| 2009 | £108,500 | £174,415 | 35 |
| 2008 | £119,200 | £195,394 | 31 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 74 |
| 2006 | £115,500 | £200,493 | 90 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 77 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 83 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 80 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 85 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 75 |
| 2000 | £47,000 | £92,238 | 90 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 84 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 87 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 63 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 57 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical CH42 6 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £199,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 147%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH42 6 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CH42 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CH42 6 recorded 26 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the CH42 6 market
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH42 6 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 6 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around CH42 6
The local authority for CH42 6 is Wirral, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £199,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
Asked and answered: CH42 6 (Oxton)
Is CH42 6 (Oxton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH42 6 (Oxton)?
Are property prices falling in CH42 6 (Oxton)?
Will CH42 6 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% 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 CH42 today
The live side of the market holds 177 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH42 district, not just CH42 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- The Beeches, Rock Ferry, Wirral, Wirral
- Burrell Close, Prenton, Wirral
- Briardale Road, Birkenhead, Wirral
"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 CH42 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CH42
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH42, one report each:
| 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 4 | £149,000 | 21 |
| CH42 5 | £122,500 | 12 |
| 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 in CH42 6? 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 CH42 6'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 CH42 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH42 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CH42 6 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.