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Greasby market report CH49 2, Wirral
The CH49 2 (Greasby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,923 HM Land Registry entries for CH49 2 (Wirral), 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 2026 median for CH49 2 (Wirral) is £242,000, from 27 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £241,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,000 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,923 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CH49 2 is one sector of CH49 (Wirral): 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 CH49 2 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.
The going rate for a home in CH49 2
In the CH49 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £242,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £241,100, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CH49 2
The last five years of sales put CH49 2 at roughly £3,000 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CH49 2 15% below the national figure.
CH49 2's median sold price, 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 | £242,000 | £242,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £247,000 | £252,907 | 52 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 40 |
| 2023 | £252,500 | £277,436 | 38 |
| 2022 | £251,000 | £294,326 | 48 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 68 |
| 2020 | £196,200 | £254,574 | 48 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 53 |
| 2018 | £193,800 | £258,339 | 62 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 70 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 68 |
| 2015 | £188,500 | £266,351 | 63 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 66 |
| 2013 | £153,000 | £220,152 | 47 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 36 |
| 2011 | £154,500 | £233,236 | 48 |
| 2010 | £166,000 | £260,331 | 31 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 39 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 37 |
| 2007 | £174,400 | £295,831 | 49 |
| 2006 | £163,800 | £284,336 | 64 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 60 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 59 |
| 2003 | £107,800 | £198,594 | 66 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 90 |
| 2001 | £83,000 | £159,563 | 81 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 102 |
| 1999 | £63,500 | £126,552 | 73 |
| 1998 | £58,800 | £118,692 | 96 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 96 |
| 1996 | £52,400 | £110,509 | 86 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical CH49 2 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £242,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 118%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH49 2 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 (+34.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CH49 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.6% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CH49 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 27 CH49 2 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 71 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.
What tenants pay around CH49 2
For renting purposes CH49 2 sits in Wirral. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £558 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,222 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wirral
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £242,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Reading the CH49 2 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH49 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
CH49 2 (Greasby): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CH49 2 (Greasby)?
Is CH49 2 (Greasby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH49 2 (Greasby)?
Where do CH49 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CH49's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 152 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH49 district, not just CH49 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
3% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 CH49 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CH area. 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 | £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. 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.
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 CH49
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CH49's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH49 0 | £225,000 | 18 |
| CH49 1 | £340,000 | 13 |
| CH49 3 | £307,500 | 34 |
| CH49 4 | £232,500 | 36 |
| CH49 5 | £207,500 | 16 |
| CH49 6 | £307,500 | 32 |
| CH49 7 | £150,000 | 11 |
| CH49 8 | £140,000 | 9 |
| CH49 9 | £155,500 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full CH49 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH49 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CH49 2? 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 CH49 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CH49 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CH49 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CH49 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CH49 2 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.