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Oxton market report CH42, Birkenhead
The standing CH42 (Oxton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 15,135 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH42 (Birkenhead) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH42 (Birkenhead) came in at £168,000, out of 145 registered, up 32% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £191,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,135 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district CH42 covering Birkenhead, Oxton, Prenton sits in Birkenhead. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CH42 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.
Today's CH42 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CH42 is £168,000, taken from 145 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £191,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CH42
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH42 sales average about £1,670 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH42 trades 41% below the country as a whole.
A typical CH42 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £168,000 | £168,000 | 145 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 394 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 309 |
| 2023 | £135,500 | £148,881 | 350 |
| 2022 | £133,000 | £155,958 | 433 |
| 2021 | £127,000 | £160,798 | 453 |
| 2020 | £110,000 | £142,727 | 308 |
| 2019 | £117,000 | £153,359 | 365 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 473 |
| 2017 | £112,000 | £152,757 | 451 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 424 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 351 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 414 |
| 2013 | £91,000 | £130,940 | 309 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 259 |
| 2011 | £84,000 | £126,808 | 271 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 231 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 208 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 387 |
| 2007 | £107,000 | £181,502 | 811 |
| 2006 | £97,500 | £169,248 | 867 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 648 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 824 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 854 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 792 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 616 |
| 2000 | £34,000 | £66,725 | 602 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 635 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 627 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 475 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 412 |
| 1995 | £29,000 | £63,042 | 437 |
In cash terms the typical CH42 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £168,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 166%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH42 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 (+44.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.7%). 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, 55% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £493,500 against £75,000 for a flat, 6.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CH42
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 | £493,500 | 14 | 795 |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | 53 | 4,626 |
| Terraced | £129,000 | 71 | 8,339 |
| Flats | £75,000 | 7 | 1,375 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.0% | +9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 307 CH42 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 752 sales a year before the financial crisis and 326 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 market
In its area's price order CH42 comes 23 of 24, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What homes rent for around CH42
For renting purposes CH42 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.
Set against the £168,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 6.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
CH42 (Oxton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CH42 (Oxton)?
Are property prices falling in CH42 (Oxton)?
Is CH42 (Oxton) a good place to buy a house?
Are CH42 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 4% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CH42's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CH42 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 177 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the CH42 median sold price.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
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. 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
CH42 ranks 2 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.
Winners and losers across the CH area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CH42, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| CH42 9 | £167,500 | 22 |
How CH42 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 (this report) | £168,000 | +32% |
| CH41 | £135,000 | +25% |
Before you sell in CH42: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH42, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH42 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH42 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH42.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH42 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CH42 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.