Becketts Lane, Chester house prices are built from 145 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £183,000. Across the 13 years from 2009 to 2022 the median moved +43.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.8%.
Median price paid
£183,000
Change in cash, 2009–2022
+43.0%
Change in real terms
+0.8%
Median per m²
£2,396
HM Land Registry145 sales33 with floor areaLatest sale 5 May 2026
Section 01
How Becketts Lane, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Becketts Lane, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £58,000 | £128,787 |
| 2000s | 4 | £117,000 | £213,140 |
| 2010s | 6 | £218,000 | £307,380 |
| 2020s | 3 | £286,000 | £292,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Becketts Lane, Chester is £328,500 in 2021; the lowest is £48,000 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £59,950 to £286,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,045, so the real change over the whole record is +154.8% — about +3.66% 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: +43.0% in cash against +0.8% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 5 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 64 | 28 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £406,000 | £406,000 |
| 92 | 14 Mar 2025 | Detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| Walpole House, 90b | 10 Jan 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 80 | 13 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 96 | 15 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 54b | 10 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £367,300 | £386,487 |
| 142 | 1 Nov 2023 | Detached | £607,000 | £655,839 |
| 94 | 5 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 4 the Courtyard | 3 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £186,920 |
| 17 | 23 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £332,000 | £358,713 |
| 122 | 21 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £286,000 | £331,356 |
| 130 | 9 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £307,500 | £356,265 |
| 4 | 13 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 6 | 5 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 70 | 4 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £336,000 | £389,285 |
| 54c | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £352,700 | £445,616 |
| 124 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 1 the Courtyard | 23 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| Orchard House, 90a | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £685,000 | £865,457 |
| 76 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £342,000 | £432,097 |
| 54a | 4 May 2021 | Terraced | £315,000 | £397,984 |
| 3 the Courtyard | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £288,000 | £372,893 |
| 47 | 11 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| 15c | 12 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £511,433 |
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 Becketts Lane, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Becketts Lane | £27,000 (1996) | £180,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 64 Becketts Lane | £218,000 (2018) | £406,000 (2026) | +8.1% | +4.3% |
| 80 Becketts Lane | £185,000 (2018) | £290,000 (2024) | +7.8% | +3.6% |
| 96 Becketts Lane | £92,500 (1997) | £450,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 54B Becketts Lane | £267,500 (2014) | £367,300 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
| 142 Becketts Lane | £250,000 (2002) | £607,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 4 the COURTYARD Becketts Lane | £119,000 (2014) | £173,000 (2023) | +4.2% | +1.0% |
| 70 Becketts Lane | £180,000 (2016) | £336,000 (2022) | +11.0% | +7.6% |
| 54C Becketts Lane | £269,750 (2014) | £352,700 (2021) | +3.9% | +2.0% |
| 1 the COURTYARD Becketts Lane | £235,000 (2014) | £270,000 (2021) | +2.0% | +0.2% |
| 54A Becketts Lane | £250,000 (2014) | £315,000 (2021) | +3.4% | +1.5% |
| 3 the COURTYARD Becketts Lane | £229,950 (2014) | £288,000 (2020) | +3.8% | +2.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Becketts Lane, Chester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 85 | 58.6% | £180,000 | £27,000 – £450,000 |
| Terraced | 33 | 22.8% | £163,000 | £35,950 – £367,300 |
| Detached | 24 | 16.6% | £284,000 | £63,450 – £685,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 2.1% | £145,000 | £119,000 – £173,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Becketts Lane, Chester
17 of the sales on record are leasehold and 128 freehold — 11.7% 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 £265,000 and the median freehold sale £173,250 — a gap of -34.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 17 | 11.7% | £265,000 |
| Freehold | 128 | 88.3% | £173,250 |
| New build | 8 | 5.5% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 137 | 94.5% | £180,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +38.9%. 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 3 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 Becketts Lane, Chester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,489 | 0.8% |
| B | 29,554 | 15.0% |
| C | 55,700 | 28.2% |
| D | 73,725 | 37.4% |
| E | 26,906 | 13.6% |
| F | 7,570 | 3.8% |
| G | 2,422 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £183,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.44% 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 CH3, 7 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 23.9 times quieter.
Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.02 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 Becketts Lane, Chester
The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a CH3 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christleton High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,382 |
| The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,253 |
| Huntington Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 385 |
| Farndon Primary School | Primary | Community school | 313 |
| Cherry Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 274 |
| Tarvin Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 230 |
| Boughton Heath Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| Christleton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 220 |
| Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 207 |
| Oldfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bache Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
| Mouldsworth Rail Station | Rail | 9.5 km |
| Delamere Rail Station | Rail | 12.4 km |
| Ince & Elton Rail Station | Rail | 12.4 km |
Section 09
How Becketts Lane, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Becketts Lane, Chester sits above that national figure — +16.2%.
Within Chester the street ranks 862 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+15.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,396 per square metre, across 33 of the 145 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 £27,000 to £685,000. 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.
Becketts Lane, Chester sits in Cheshire East, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 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
Streets nearby
- High Street£135,000 median
- Whitchurch Road£200,000 median
- Queens Road£165,475 median
- Chester Road£169,975 median
- Tarvin Road£168,500 median
- Filkins Lane£270,000 median
- Sandy Lane£175,000 median
- Green Lane£185,500 median
- Church Lane£282,500 median
- Cherry Road£116,898 median
- Butterbache Road£170,000 median
- Dee Banks£295,000 median
- Arkle Court£78,200 median
- Castlefields£134,950 median
- Heath Lane£210,000 median
- Bluebell Close£106,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Becketts Lane6 sales
- 9 Becketts Lane5 sales
- 6 Becketts Lane4 sales
- 66 Becketts Lane4 sales
- 64 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 80 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 4, the COURTYARD Becketts Lane3 sales
- 1, the COURTYARD Becketts Lane3 sales
- 3, the COURTYARD Becketts Lane3 sales
- 15C Becketts Lane3 sales
- 7 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 78 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 1 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 2 Becketts Lane3 sales
- 96 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 54B Becketts Lane2 sales
- 142 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 70 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 54C Becketts Lane2 sales
- 54A Becketts Lane2 sales
- 28 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 46 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 68 Becketts Lane2 sales
- 134 Becketts Lane2 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Becketts Lane, Chester?
The median price paid in Becketts Lane, Chester across every sale on the register is £183,000. 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 Becketts Lane, Chester?
145 sales are on record for Becketts Lane, Chester, the most recent completing on 5 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Becketts Lane, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.0% between 2009 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Becketts Lane, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £328,500, set in 2021. 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 Becketts Lane, Chester?
£2,396 per square metre, from the 33 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 5 May 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, “Becketts Lane, Chester 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.