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Oxton market report CH42 9, Birkenhead
The CH42 9 (Oxton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,524 registered sales in CH42 9 (Birkenhead) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical CH42 9 (Birkenhead) home changed hands for £167,500 in 2026 (median of 22 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £182,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,690 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,524 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CH42 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CH42 (Birkenhead). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CH42 9 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 9 sells for
The 2026 median for CH42 9 is £167,500, taken from 22 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £182,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CH42 9
The last five years of sales put CH42 9 at roughly £1,690 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH42 9 trades 41% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CH42 9 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 | £167,500 | £167,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 68 |
| 2024 | £164,500 | £174,897 | 50 |
| 2023 | £144,500 | £158,770 | 52 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 75 |
| 2021 | £137,000 | £173,460 | 83 |
| 2020 | £132,500 | £171,921 | 64 |
| 2019 | £122,000 | £159,913 | 58 |
| 2018 | £119,000 | £158,629 | 64 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 54 |
| 2016 | £116,800 | £163,404 | 71 |
| 2015 | £106,000 | £149,778 | 63 |
| 2014 | £106,000 | £150,380 | 66 |
| 2013 | £94,500 | £135,976 | 54 |
| 2012 | £88,800 | £130,703 | 36 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 46 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 27 |
| 2009 | £97,500 | £156,732 | 30 |
| 2008 | £122,000 | £199,984 | 71 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 159 |
| 2006 | £117,200 | £203,444 | 188 |
| 2005 | £106,000 | £188,637 | 117 |
| 2004 | £90,400 | £164,184 | 127 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 119 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 130 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 122 |
| 2000 | £38,900 | £76,341 | 92 |
| 1999 | £40,500 | £80,714 | 105 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 93 |
| 1997 | £33,800 | £69,317 | 74 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 73 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical CH42 9 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £167,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH42 9 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.7% | +9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
CH42 9 recorded 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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.
What tenants pay around CH42 9
The local authority for CH42 9 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.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £167,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
The shape of the CH42 9 market
This is a thin market: 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Common questions on CH42 9 (Oxton)
Are property prices falling in CH42 9 (Oxton)?
Is CH42 9 (Oxton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH42 9 (Oxton)?
Where do CH42 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
CH42's current homes for sale
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 9: 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
"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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in CH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CH42's other sectors, each with 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 4 | £149,000 | 21 |
| CH42 5 | £122,500 | 12 |
| CH42 6 | £199,000 | 26 |
| CH42 7 | £168,000 | 7 |
| CH42 8 | £475,000 | 13 |
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 9? 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 9'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH42 9.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH42 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CH42 9 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.
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.