Black Diamond Park, Chester house prices are built from 259 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2009 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +6.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.9%.
Median price paid
£122,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+6.4%
Change in real terms
-22.9%
Median per m²
£2,234
HM Land Registry259 sales79 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Black Diamond Park, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Black Diamond Park, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2009 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | £99,995 | £182,161 |
| 2010s | 8 | £121,000 | £170,610 |
| 2020s | 6 | £136,325 | £139,289 |
The highest yearly median on record for Black Diamond Park, Chester is £150,000 in 2023; the lowest is £99,995 in 2009. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £99,995 to £145,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £164,327, so the real change over the whole record is -9.8% — about -0.65% 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: +6.4% in cash against -22.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 23 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £153,500 | £153,500 |
| 106 | 11 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 63 | 5 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £121,700 | £124,346 |
| 24 | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £128,600 | £131,396 |
| 6 | 3 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £129,000 | £131,804 |
| 129 | 15 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 27 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £159,000 | £162,457 |
| 109 | 24 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £105,239 |
| 8 | 15 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 52 | 18 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 18 | 7 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 74 | 7 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £121,900 | £124,550 |
| 28 | 8 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £146,000 | £149,174 |
| 20 | 18 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £129,650 | £136,423 |
| 30 | 23 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £150,470 |
| 86 | 16 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| 64 | 16 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £128,000 | £134,687 |
| 24 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £121,000 | £127,321 |
| 96 | 15 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £329,950 | £347,186 |
| 68 | 17 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £122,000 | £131,816 |
| 78 | 12 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 3 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £157,500 | £170,172 |
| 112 | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 38 | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £170,713 |
| 48 | 25 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £167,471 |
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 Black Diamond Park, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 Black Diamond Park | £135,995 (2011) | £153,500 (2026) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| 106 Black Diamond Park | £219,995 (2010) | £340,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 63 Black Diamond Park | £99,995 (2011) | £121,700 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 24 Black Diamond Park | £74,695 (2009) | £128,600 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.4% |
| 6 Black Diamond Park | £74,695 (2009) | £129,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.4% |
| 129 Black Diamond Park | £105,000 (2009) | £145,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 27 Black Diamond Park | £99,995 (2009) | £159,000 (2025) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| 109 Black Diamond Park | £61,595 (2010) | £103,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 8 Black Diamond Park | £99,995 (2008) | £155,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 74 Black Diamond Park | £99,995 (2011) | £121,900 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 18 Black Diamond Park | £110,000 (2008) | £160,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 28 Black Diamond Park | £105,300 (2009) | £146,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Black Diamond Park, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 198 | 76.4% | £113,575 | £59,995 – £160,000 |
| Terraced | 47 | 18.1% | £215,000 | £86,995 – £340,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 5.4% | £233,745 | £195,000 – £275,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Black Diamond Park, Chester
245 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14 freehold — 94.6% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £233,745 — a gap of +94.8%. 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 | 245 | 94.6% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 14 | 5.4% | £233,745 |
| New build | 119 | 45.9% | £107,500 |
| Existing home | 140 | 54.1% | £128,300 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -16.2%. 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 14 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 Black Diamond Park, Chester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire West and Chester, 47.3% of 169,454 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 992 | 0.6% |
| B | 23,366 | 13.8% |
| C | 55,716 | 32.9% |
| D | 60,672 | 35.8% |
| E | 21,226 | 12.5% |
| F | 5,669 | 3.3% |
| G | 1,813 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire West and Chester at £981 a month as of Jun 2026 — £717 for a one-bedroom home and £1,109 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £122,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.65% 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 CH1, 266 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 122 violent, 5 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 357,150 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire West and Chester, that is 0.74 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 Black Diamond Park, Chester
The 2021 census counted 357,150 residents in Cheshire West and Chester across 155,154 households. 69.5% of those households own their home and 30.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a CH1 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacon High School, A Specialist Sports College | Secondary | Foundation school | 651 |
| Dee Point Primary School | Primary | Community school | 485 |
| Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 369 |
| Saughall All Saints Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 275 |
| Highfield Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 218 |
| The Grosvenor Park Church of England Academy | Primary | Free schools | 198 |
| The Arches Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 180 |
| St Theresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 179 |
| J H Godwin Primary School | Primary | Community school | 161 |
| St Oswald's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 102 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bache Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Capenhurst Rail Station | Rail | 6.7 km |
| Hawarden Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 8.3 km |
| Hawarden Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
Section 09
How Black Diamond Park, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Black Diamond Park, Chester sits below that national figure — -22.5%.
Within Chester the street ranks 1426 of 1796 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £158,000 (-22.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,234 per square metre, across 79 of the 259 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 £59,995 to £340,000. 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.
Black Diamond Park, Chester sits in Cheshire West and Chester, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire West and Chester at 6.9 times median local earnings of £37,198 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
- Egerton Street£140,233 median
- Saddlery Way£149,998 median
- Saughall Road£120,000 median
- Sealand Road£132,500 median
- Parkgate Road£198,750 median
- The Square£175,000 median
- Garden Lane£100,000 median
- New Crane Street£142,000 median
- Church Road£192,000 median
- Gladstone Avenue£160,000 median
- Foregate Street£175,000 median
- Blacon Point Road£105,000 median
- Trafford Street£78,000 median
- Brook Street£197,000 median
- Hermitage Road£200,000 median
- Walls Avenue£165,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 20 Black Diamond Park5 sales
- 80 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 63 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 24 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 6 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 8 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 48 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 58 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 65 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 47 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 140 Black Diamond Park4 sales
- 106 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 27 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 109 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 74 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 18 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 28 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 64 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 86 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 78 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 3 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 38 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 43 Black Diamond Park3 sales
- 73 Black Diamond Park3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Black Diamond Park, Chester?
The median price paid in Black Diamond Park, Chester across every sale on the register is £122,000. 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 Black Diamond Park, Chester?
259 sales are on record for Black Diamond Park, Chester, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Black Diamond Park, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +6.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Black Diamond Park, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £150,000, set in 2023. 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 Black Diamond Park, Chester?
£2,234 per square metre, from the 79 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 23 Mar 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, “Black Diamond Park, 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.