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New Brighton market report CH45 4, Wallasey
The CH45 4 (New Brighton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,119 HM Land Registry entries for CH45 4 (Wallasey), 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.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH45 4 (Wallasey) came in at £175,200, out of 26 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £185,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,780 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,119 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CH45 4 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 4 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 CH45 4 homes really sell for
26 sales were registered in CH45 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £175,200. The mean works out at £185,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CH45 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH45 4 sales average about £1,780 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 CH45 4 trades 39% below the country as a whole.
CH45 4's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,200 | £175,200 | 26 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 66 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 65 |
| 2023 | £163,400 | £179,537 | 41 |
| 2022 | £178,900 | £209,781 | 74 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 83 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 51 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 62 |
| 2018 | £130,500 | £173,959 | 58 |
| 2017 | £127,200 | £173,488 | 74 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 70 |
| 2015 | £124,700 | £176,201 | 70 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 71 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 48 |
| 2012 | £109,000 | £160,434 | 34 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 39 |
| 2010 | £102,500 | £160,746 | 30 |
| 2009 | £101,000 | £162,358 | 30 |
| 2008 | £106,000 | £173,756 | 48 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 90 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 87 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 65 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 95 |
| 2003 | £70,800 | £130,431 | 102 |
| 2002 | £63,800 | £120,039 | 120 |
| 2001 | £46,200 | £88,817 | 94 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 75 |
| 1999 | £41,500 | £82,707 | 92 |
| 1998 | £41,200 | £83,165 | 62 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 69 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 69 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical CH45 4 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £175,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 101%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH45 4 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 (+48.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−15.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 26 CH45 4 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 91 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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.
How CH45 4 trades
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH45 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within CH45, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around CH45 4
The local authority for CH45 4 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.
Against the £175,200 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 5.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on CH45 4 (New Brighton)
How much did a house sell for in CH45 4 (New Brighton)?
Are property prices falling in CH45 4 (New Brighton)?
Is CH45 4 (New Brighton) a good place to buy a house?
Are CH45 4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 is for sale in CH45 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 192 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH45 district, not just CH45 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 CH45 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CH: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CH45
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH45, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH45 0 | £360,000 | 7 |
| CH45 1 | £232,500 | 16 |
| CH45 2 | £175,000 | 17 |
| CH45 3 | £255,000 | 21 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CH45 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH45 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH45 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH45 4 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 CH45 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH45 4.
Take it further
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See every individual CH45 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.