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New Brighton market report CH45 3, Wallasey
The standing CH45 3 (New Brighton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,685 registered sales in CH45 3 (Wallasey) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CH45 3 (Wallasey) home changed hands for £255,000 in 2026 (median of 21 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £239,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,685 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CH45 3 is one sector of CH45 (Wallasey): 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 CH45 3 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 buyers actually paid in CH45 3
The 2026 median for CH45 3 is £255,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £239,500, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in CH45 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH45 3 sales average about £2,270 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH45 3 sits 11% below the national market.
The price of a typical CH45 3 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £228,000 | £233,452 | 55 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 41 |
| 2023 | £199,500 | £219,202 | 28 |
| 2022 | £188,000 | £220,451 | 60 |
| 2021 | £208,000 | £263,355 | 64 |
| 2020 | £206,300 | £267,679 | 40 |
| 2019 | £182,500 | £239,214 | 60 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 47 |
| 2017 | £167,000 | £227,771 | 48 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 53 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 47 |
| 2014 | £169,500 | £240,465 | 34 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 32 |
| 2012 | £183,500 | £270,089 | 34 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 35 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 22 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 29 |
| 2008 | £131,500 | £215,556 | 29 |
| 2007 | £148,500 | £251,897 | 56 |
| 2006 | £145,800 | £253,090 | 58 |
| 2005 | £145,500 | £258,931 | 40 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 75 |
| 2003 | £96,800 | £178,329 | 86 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 78 |
| 2001 | £66,800 | £128,420 | 76 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 73 |
| 1999 | £62,500 | £124,559 | 77 |
| 1998 | £53,400 | £107,792 | 140 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 55 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 47 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical CH45 3 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 113%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2012. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH45 3 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 2012 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.8% | +9.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CH45 3
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 21 CH45 3 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 68 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the CH45 3 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CH45 district median, CH45 3 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around CH45 3
The local authority for CH45 3 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.
Set against the £255,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
CH45 3 (New Brighton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CH45 3 (New Brighton)?
Are property prices falling in CH45 3 (New Brighton)?
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Are CH45 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in CH45 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 192 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH45 district, not just CH45 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 CH45 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
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CH area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CH45
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH45, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH45 0 | £360,000 | 7 |
| CH45 1 | £232,500 | 16 |
| CH45 2 | £175,000 | 17 |
| CH45 4 | £175,200 | 26 |
| CH45 5 | £191,500 | 25 |
| CH45 6 | £290,000 | 11 |
| CH45 7 | £188,500 | 22 |
| CH45 8 | £295,000 | 27 |
| CH45 9 | £182,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full CH45 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH45 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CH45 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CH45 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CH45 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CH45 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH45 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH45 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CH45 3 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.