Sold Price History


CH43 8 house prices

CH43 8 house prices are built from 831 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +17.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.2%.

Median price paid

£109,000

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+17.1%

Change in real terms

-15.2%

Median per m²

£1,429

HM Land Registry831 sales174 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Apr 2026

Section 01

How CH43 8 prices moved

The chart tracks the median CH43 8 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

CH43 8 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£51,000£113,244
2000s10£101,225£184,402
2010s10£151,500£213,615
2020s6£200,000£204,348
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for CH43 8 is £252,500 in 2022; the lowest is £37,500 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £185,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,480, so the real change over the whole record is +98.0% — about +2.30% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +17.1% in cash against -15.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Section 02

The most recent sales

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
FLAT 6 AIRLIE WOOD, 32 Forest Road24 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£45,000£45,000
FLAT 6 ST. IVES COURT Forest Road18 Feb 2026Flat or maisonette£82,000£82,000
25 Ashburton Road5 Feb 2026Semi-detached£740,000£740,000
40 Lingdale Road16 Jan 2026Semi-detached£265,000£265,000
13 St Albans Road19 Dec 2025Semi-detached£340,000£347,391
1 St Aidans Court3 Dec 2025Flat or maisonette£102,500£104,728
10 Lingdale Road28 Nov 2025Semi-detached£187,500£191,576
FLAT 13 14 – 16 Forest Road28 Nov 2025Flat or maisonette£130,000£132,826
7 St Aidans Court26 Nov 2025Flat or maisonette£100,000£102,174
4 St Ives Road3 Nov 2025Semi-detached£315,000£321,848
54 Tollemache Road3 Oct 2025Semi-detached£158,000£161,435
FLAT 7 LINGDALE COURT Shrewsbury Road3 Oct 2025Flat or maisonette£150,000£153,261
FLAT 4 61 Ashville Road28 Aug 2025Flat or maisonette£93,500£95,533
12 Lingdale Road15 Aug 2025Terraced£185,000£189,022
19 Lingdale Road21 Jul 2025Detached£312,000£318,783
FLAT 6 68 Park Road West8 Jul 2025Flat or maisonette£100,000£102,174
7 Forest Road4 Jul 2025Semi-detached£350,000£357,609
12 St Aidans Court17 Jun 2025Flat or maisonette£125,000£127,717
FLAT 5 LINGDALE COURT Shrewsbury Road9 Jun 2025Flat or maisonette£145,000£148,152
FLAT 15 LINGDALE COURT Shrewsbury Road27 May 2025Flat or maisonette£126,000£128,739
49 Heather Brow19 May 2025Terraced£210,000£214,565
2 Ashburton Avenue16 May 2025Semi-detached£303,000£309,587
6 Tollemache Road15 May 2025Detached£250,000£255,435
2 FOREST COURT Forest Road2 Apr 2025Flat or maisonette£124,500£127,207
103 Shrewsbury Road31 Mar 2025Semi-detached£386,000£394,391
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

Section 03

Homes that sold twice

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to CH43 8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 6 AIRLIE WOOD, 32 Forest Road£19,950 (2000)£45,000 (2026)+3.2%+0.5%
FLAT 6 ST. IVES COURT Forest Road£70,000 (2002)£82,000 (2026)+0.7%-2.1%
25 Ashburton Road£150,000 (2013)£740,000 (2026)+13.1%+9.8%
40 Lingdale Road£120,000 (2004)£265,000 (2026)+3.7%+0.8%
13 St Albans Road£173,000 (2013)£340,000 (2025)+5.8%+2.7%
1 St Aidans Court£39,000 (2001)£102,500 (2025)+4.1%+1.3%
10 Lingdale Road£69,450 (2002)£187,500 (2025)+4.4%+1.6%
FLAT 13 14 – 16 Forest Road£32,500 (2000)£130,000 (2025)+5.7%+2.9%
7 St Aidans Court£30,750 (1999)£100,000 (2025)+4.6%+1.9%
54 Tollemache Road£120,000 (2023)£158,000 (2025)+14.7%+11.6%
FLAT 7 LINGDALE COURT Shrewsbury Road£126,500 (2021)£150,000 (2025)+4.4%-1.0%
FLAT 4 61 Ashville Road£51,000 (2011)£93,500 (2025)+4.4%+1.4%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. CH43 8 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached37545.1%£165,000£30,000 – £740,000
Flat or maisonette29735.7%£71,500£8,500 – £183,000
Detached8910.7%£200,000£26,000 – £680,000
Terraced708.4%£112,000£21,000 – £222,500
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in CH43 8

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 167 certificates cover CH43 8, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area75 m²about 807 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to59 m²about 630 sq ft
Larger quarter, from119 m²about 1,276 sq ft
Under 60 m²26.9%45 homes
150 m² and over15.0%25 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 11 Feb 2021 and 29 Jun 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in CH43 8

301 of the sales on record are leasehold and 530 freehold — 36.2% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £71,500 and the median freehold sale £157,250 — a gap of +119.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold30136.2%£71,500
Freehold53063.8%£157,250
New build91.1%£89,950
Existing home82298.9%£110,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 36 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Section 07

Living in CH43 8

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wirral, 37.1% of 163,066 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A4190.3%
B10,8716.7%
C49,16430.1%
D68,07741.7%
E27,06616.6%
F5,5643.4%
G1,9051.2%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Wirral.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wirral at £845 a month as of Jun 2026 — £563 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £109,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.30% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CH43, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 1 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.47 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around CH43 8

The 2021 census counted 320,199 residents in Wirral across 143,252 households. 65.6% of those households own their home and 34.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a CH43 postcode: 9 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Birkenhead High School AcademyAll-throughAcademy sponsor led1,226
St Anselm's CollegeSecondaryAcademy converter1,002
Ridgeway High SchoolSecondaryFoundation school858
Birkenhead Park SchoolSecondaryAcademy sponsor led731
Townfield Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter487
Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school404
Prenton Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school393
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, BirkenheadPrimaryAcademy sponsor led237
St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school216
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter207
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Upton Rail StationRail1.6 km
Birkenhead Central Rail StationRail2.6 km
Conway Park Rail StationRail2.6 km
Green Lane Rail StationRail2.9 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How CH43 8 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. CH43 8 sits below that national figure — -30.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,429 per square metre, across 174 of the 831 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £8,500 to £740,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

CH43 8 sits in Wirral, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wirral at 6.1 times median local earnings of £35,483 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Other sectors in CH43

The wider district is CH43.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in CH43 8?

The median price paid in CH43 8 across every sale on the register is £109,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in CH43 8?

831 sales are on record for CH43 8, the most recent completing on 24 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have CH43 8 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +17.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were CH43 8 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £252,500, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in CH43 8?

£1,429 per square metre, from the 174 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Apr 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “CH43 8 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.