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Beechwood market report CH43 1, Prenton
The CH43 1 (Beechwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,623 HM Land Registry entries for CH43 1 (Prenton), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in CH43 1 (Prenton) sold for £282,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, up 54% on five years earlier. The mean was £273,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,130 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,623 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CH43 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CH43 (Prenton). 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 CH43 1 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 CH43 1 prices, from the sold record
19 sales were registered in CH43 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £282,000. The mean works out at £273,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CH43 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of CH43 1 home has cost about £2,130 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH43 1 trades 1% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CH43 1 home, 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 | £282,000 | £282,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 35 |
| 2024 | £143,000 | £152,038 | 42 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 44 |
| 2022 | £160,700 | £188,439 | 61 |
| 2021 | £183,000 | £231,702 | 53 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 43 |
| 2019 | £151,500 | £198,580 | 34 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 59 |
| 2017 | £114,500 | £156,167 | 46 |
| 2016 | £118,200 | £165,363 | 64 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 41 |
| 2014 | £163,800 | £232,379 | 42 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 41 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 19 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 19 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 25 |
| 2009 | £142,500 | £229,070 | 22 |
| 2008 | £189,000 | £309,811 | 53 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 99 |
| 2006 | £117,600 | £204,139 | 81 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 55 |
| 2004 | £103,000 | £187,068 | 70 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 69 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 72 |
| 2001 | £48,500 | £93,239 | 62 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 73 |
| 1999 | £40,200 | £80,117 | 60 |
| 1998 | £37,500 | £75,696 | 66 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 65 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 37 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical CH43 1 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £282,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 200%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH43 1 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 2026 (+81.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−36.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +81.9% | +77.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +9.0% | +4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +8.3% | +3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +9.1% | +5.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
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.
Sales activity in CH43 1
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 19 sales completed in CH43 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 73 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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 kind of market CH43 1 is
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH43 1 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. Within CH43, this sector trades 23% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of CH43 1
The local authority for CH43 1 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 £282,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
Common questions on CH43 1 (Beechwood)
Is CH43 1 (Beechwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH43 1 (Beechwood)?
Are property prices falling in CH43 1 (Beechwood)?
What happens to CH43 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 54% over five years in cash and up 22% 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 CH43 now
The live side of the market holds 163 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH43 district, not just CH43 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
3% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Dodleston Close, Prenton, Wirral
- Flat 10, Oaklands, Prenton, 13 Devonshire Place
- Noctorum Dell, Prenton, 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 CH43 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight 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 | £220,000 | £245,000 (+11%) | £290,995 (+19%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £490,000 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £167,500 | £190,000 (+13%) | £220,000 (+16%) | £285,000 (+30%) | £365,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £140,000 | £155,000 (+11%) | £160,000 (+3%) | £195,000 (+22%) | £225,000 (+15%) |
| Flat | £100,000 | £135,000 (+35%) | £180,000 (+33%) | £236,750 (+32%) | £295,000 (+25%) |
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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CH43
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH43, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH43 0 | £280,000 | 33 |
| CH43 2 | £212,000 | 27 |
| CH43 3 | £207,000 | 28 |
| CH43 4 | £213,000 | 8 |
| CH43 5 | £240,000 | 37 |
| CH43 6 | £213,000 | 13 |
| CH43 7 | £198,500 | 18 |
| CH43 8 | £260,000 | 7 |
| CH43 9 | £232,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full CH43 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH43 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CH43 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH43 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH43 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH43 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH43 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CH43 1 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.
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.