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Beechwood market report CH43 7, Prenton
The standing CH43 7 (Beechwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,545 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH43 7 (Prenton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CH43 7 (Prenton) is £210,000, from 17 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £268,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,545 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CH43 7 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 7 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 7 prices, from the sold record
17 sales were registered in CH43 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £210,000. The mean works out at £268,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in CH43 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH43 7 costs about £2,290 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH43 7 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
A typical CH43 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 67 |
| 2024 | £167,000 | £177,555 | 63 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 48 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 73 |
| 2021 | £176,200 | £223,092 | 94 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 64 |
| 2019 | £129,000 | £169,088 | 70 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 81 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 87 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 70 |
| 2015 | £132,200 | £186,799 | 56 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 70 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 42 |
| 2012 | £143,000 | £210,478 | 33 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 47 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 37 |
| 2009 | £189,000 | £303,819 | 28 |
| 2008 | £210,500 | £345,054 | 81 |
| 2007 | £127,500 | £216,276 | 126 |
| 2006 | £132,800 | £230,524 | 116 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 80 |
| 2004 | £118,500 | £215,219 | 106 |
| 2003 | £84,000 | £154,748 | 109 |
| 2002 | £72,100 | £135,656 | 171 |
| 2001 | £59,400 | £114,193 | 114 |
| 2000 | £55,500 | £108,919 | 97 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 112 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 100 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 130 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 95 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical CH43 7 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £210,000 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 2008; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH43 7 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 2008 (+65.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−31.2%). 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) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
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.
CH43 7 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 115 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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 kind of market CH43 7 is
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH43 7 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 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around CH43 7
CH43 7 falls under Wirral, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £210,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
CH43 7 (Beechwood): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CH43 7 (Beechwood)?
Is CH43 7 (Beechwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH43 7 (Beechwood)?
Will CH43 7 prices rise from here?
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 you could buy in CH43 now
Turning to what is actually available: 208 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH43 district, not just CH43 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Oakwood Drive, Prenton, Wirral
- Downing Close, Prenton, Merseyside, CH43
- Park Road South, Prenton, Wirral
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
What another bedroom costs in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight 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%) | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CH43
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CH43's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH43 0 | £290,000 | 29 |
| CH43 1 | £281,000 | 16 |
| CH43 2 | £222,800 | 18 |
| CH43 3 | £217,000 | 24 |
| CH43 4 | £214,000 | 7 |
| CH43 5 | £220,000 | 30 |
| CH43 6 | £259,000 | 10 |
| CH43 8 | £260,000 | 7 |
| CH43 9 | £232,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full CH43 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH43 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CH43 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH43 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH43 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH43 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CH43 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH43 7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CH43 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CH43 7 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.