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New Brighton market report CH45 8, Wallasey
The standing CH45 8 (New Brighton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,973 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH45 8 (Wallasey) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CH45 8 (Wallasey) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, up 31% on five years earlier. The mean was £293,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,973 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CH45 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CH45 (Wallasey). 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 CH45 8 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.
CH45 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the CH45 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £293,300, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in CH45 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH45 8 sales average about £2,310 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CH45 8 4% above the country at large.
A typical CH45 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 54 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 58 |
| 2023 | £209,000 | £229,640 | 22 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 65 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 69 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 41 |
| 2019 | £160,500 | £210,377 | 66 |
| 2018 | £173,000 | £230,612 | 67 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 72 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 64 |
| 2015 | £156,500 | £221,135 | 71 |
| 2014 | £156,000 | £221,313 | 67 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 47 |
| 2012 | £132,500 | £195,023 | 35 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 44 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 34 |
| 2009 | £125,800 | £202,225 | 30 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 30 |
| 2007 | £147,400 | £250,031 | 99 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 67 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 53 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 71 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 77 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 81 |
| 2001 | £77,500 | £148,990 | 113 |
| 2000 | £58,200 | £114,218 | 106 |
| 1999 | £52,700 | £105,028 | 70 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 77 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 71 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 65 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical CH45 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the CH45 8 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 2001 (+33.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.2%). 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) | +8.3% | +5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.6% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in CH45 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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.
The rental side of CH45 8
CH45 8 falls under Wirral, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £558 a month here against £1,222 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wirral
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £295,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
Reading the CH45 8 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH45 8 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. Against the CH45 district median, CH45 8 sits 36% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on CH45 8 (New Brighton)
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What happens to CH45 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 4% 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 CH45 now
The live side of the market holds 192 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH45 district, not just CH45 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. 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.
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CH45's other sectors, each with 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 3 | £255,000 | 21 |
| CH45 4 | £175,200 | 26 |
| CH45 5 | £191,500 | 25 |
| CH45 6 | £290,000 | 11 |
| CH45 7 | £188,500 | 22 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH45 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH45 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH45 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CH45 8 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.