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Barnston market report CH61, Wirral
The CH61 (Barnston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,816 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH61 (Wirral) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CH61 (Wirral) came in at £274,000, out of 108 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £302,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,010 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,816 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CH61 is the postcode district covering Barnston, Irby, Pensby in Wirral. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CH61 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 a home in CH61 sells for
The CH61 median stands at £274,000 for 2026, built from 108 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £302,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CH61
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH61 costs about £3,010 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CH61 4% below the national figure.
The price of a typical CH61 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 | £274,000 | £274,000 | 108 |
| 2025 | £276,500 | £283,112 | 255 |
| 2024 | £258,000 | £274,307 | 269 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 226 |
| 2022 | £263,000 | £308,398 | 277 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 357 |
| 2020 | £217,000 | £281,562 | 272 |
| 2019 | £206,000 | £270,017 | 298 |
| 2018 | £197,000 | £262,605 | 289 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 284 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 299 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 290 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 311 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 225 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 192 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 223 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 170 |
| 2009 | £156,000 | £250,771 | 184 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 153 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 313 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 346 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 240 |
| 2004 | £158,800 | £288,412 | 284 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 329 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 372 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 355 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 337 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 361 |
| 1998 | £61,000 | £123,133 | 343 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 297 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 308 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 249 |
In cash terms the typical CH61 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £274,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CH61 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 2003 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). 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) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 68% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £421,500 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CH61
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £421,500 | 28 | 2,034 |
| Semi-detached | £267,500 | 68 | 5,937 |
| Terraced | £212,000 (2025) | – | 592 |
| Flats | £165,000 | 9 | 231 |
Sales activity in CH61
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 232 CH61 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 322 sales a year before the financial crisis and 227 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.
The rental side of CH61
The local authority for CH61 is Wirral, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £274,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Common questions on CH61 (Barnston)
Are property prices falling in CH61 (Barnston)?
Is CH61 (Barnston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH61 (Barnston)?
Will CH61 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CH61 right now
Everything above is what homes in CH61 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 125 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the CH61 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CH61 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CH61 ranks 20 of 24 in the CH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CH61, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH61 0 | £485,000 | 4 |
| CH61 1 | £300,000 | 10 |
| CH61 2 | £421,000 | 4 |
| CH61 3 | £273,000 | 13 |
| CH61 4 | £325,000 | 13 |
| CH61 5 | £265,000 | 11 |
| CH61 6 | £260,000 | 10 |
| CH61 7 | £270,000 | 15 |
| CH61 8 | £220,000 | 13 |
| CH61 9 | £240,000 | 15 |
How CH61 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CH60 | £421,200 | +3% |
| CH48 | £377,500 | +16% |
| CH3 | £340,000 | +17% |
| CH64 | £329,500 | +8% |
| CH47 | £325,000 | +3% |
| CH2 | £280,000 | +12% |
| CH4 | £275,000 | +15% |
| CH63 | £275,000 | +15% |
| CH61 (this report) | £274,000 | +5% |
| CH49 | £245,000 | +23% |
| CH43 | £236,800 | +21% |
| CH7 | £235,000 | +15% |
| CH66 | £226,000 | +8% |
| CH1 | £222,000 | +3% |
| CH62 | £222,000 | +23% |
| CH45 | £216,500 | +19% |
| CH46 | £205,600 | +16% |
| CH5 | £205,000 | +16% |
| CH6 | £181,000 | +17% |
| CH8 | £174,500 | -2% |
| CH65 | £173,000 | +8% |
| CH44 | £170,000 | +36% |
| CH42 | £168,000 | +32% |
| CH41 | £135,000 | +25% |
Before you sell in CH61: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH61, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH61 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH61 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CH61.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual CH61 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.