Church Road, Chester house prices are built from 190 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 12 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £192,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +115.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +57.9%.
Median price paid
£192,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+115.2%
Change in real terms
+57.9%
HM Land Registry190 salesLatest sale 12 May 2026
Section 01
How Church Road, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Church Road, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 2 | £59,475 | £132,063 |
| 2000s | 9 | £154,000 | £280,543 |
| 2010s | 8 | £197,500 | £278,475 |
| 2020s | 3 | £400,000 | £408,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Church Road, Chester is £425,000 in 2024; the lowest is £59,475 in 1999. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £67,000 to £425,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £142,060, so the real change over the whole record is +214.8% — about +4.34% 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: +115.2% in cash against +57.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 12 May 2026 | Terraced | £267,500 | £267,500 |
| 5 Gladstone Barns | 19 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £825,000 | £825,000 |
| Woodside House | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| Hibernia | 5 Sep 2025 | Detached | £371,000 | £379,065 |
| 88 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 3 | 13 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| Prime Cottage | 10 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| Ivy Bank | 29 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| Brickbank | 24 Sep 2024 | Detached | £653,000 | £687,112 |
| 4 Gladstone Barns | 4 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £594,515 |
| Bellcot | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| White Lodge | 13 Oct 2023 | Detached | £575,000 | £621,264 |
| 3 | 9 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 3 Rose Cottages | 26 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £258,500 | £279,299 |
| Brookside Cottage | 10 Feb 2023 | Detached | £640,000 | £691,494 |
| 7 | 25 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| Chapel Bank Cottage | 4 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| Thelwell | 10 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £22,000 | £27,796 |
| 4 Gladstone Barns | 15 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £541,000 | £683,522 |
| Chelston | 17 Aug 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| The Woodlands | 24 May 2021 | Detached | £590,000 | £745,430 |
| 3 Gladstone Barns | 24 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| Aldersey House | 10 Mar 2021 | Detached | £465,000 | £587,500 |
| Abbey Hey | 23 Feb 2021 | Detached | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 102 | 27 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £258,125 | £326,126 |
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 Church Road, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 Church Road | £135,000 (2011) | £267,500 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 5 GLADSTONE BARNS Church Road | £628,000 (2020) | £825,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +0.2% |
| HIBERNIA Church Road | £287,500 (2008) | £371,000 (2025) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 88 Church Road | £169,950 (2001) | £440,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 3 Church Road | £41,000 (1996) | £265,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| BRICKBANK Church Road | £227,000 (2009) | £653,000 (2024) | +7.3% | +4.2% |
| 4 GLADSTONE BARNS Church Road | £515,000 (2020) | £565,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -2.8% |
| BELLCOT Church Road | £93,500 (2013) | £185,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.3% |
| 3 ROSE COTTAGES Church Road | £70,000 (2004) | £258,500 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.1% |
| BROOKSIDE COTTAGE Church Road | £270,000 (2001) | £640,000 (2023) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 7 Church Road | £150,000 (2016) | £210,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +2.5% |
| CHELSTON Church Road | £230,000 (2018) | £375,000 (2021) | +17.7% | +15.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Church Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 84 | 44.2% | £249,995 | £47,000 – £695,000 |
| Semi-detached | 77 | 40.5% | £168,500 | £10,000 – £825,000 |
| Terraced | 27 | 14.2% | £148,000 | £22,000 – £495,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.1% | £133,000 | £133,000 – £199,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Church Road, Chester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 190 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 190 | 100.0% | £192,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.1% | £282,500 |
| Existing home | 188 | 98.9% | £187,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +50.7%. 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 9 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 Church Road, 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 £192,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.13% 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 Church Road, 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 Church Road, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Church Road, Chester sits above that national figure — +21.9%.
Within Chester the street ranks 798 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+21.5%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £10,000 to £825,000. 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.
Church Road, 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
- Black Diamond Park£122,000 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
- 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
- 56 Church Road5 sales
- 1 Church Road5 sales
- BELLCOT Church Road4 sales
- 1, SPEED COTTAGES Church Road4 sales
- 66 Church Road3 sales
- 3 Church Road3 sales
- BRICKBANK Church Road3 sales
- 4, GLADSTONE BARNS Church Road3 sales
- 3, ROSE COTTAGES Church Road3 sales
- BROOKSIDE COTTAGE Church Road3 sales
- 7 Church Road3 sales
- 102 Church Road3 sales
- 76 Church Road3 sales
- 55 Church Road3 sales
- TARA Church Road3 sales
- 74 Church Road3 sales
- THE ORCHARD Church Road3 sales
- DODLESTON OAKS Church Road3 sales
- 57 Church Road3 sales
- 5, GLADSTONE BARNS Church Road2 sales
- HIBERNIA Church Road2 sales
- 88 Church Road2 sales
- CHELSTON Church Road2 sales
- THE WOODLANDS Church Road2 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Church Road, Chester?
The median price paid in Church Road, Chester across every sale on the register is £192,000. 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 Church Road, Chester?
190 sales are on record for Church Road, Chester, the most recent completing on 12 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Church Road, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +115.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +57.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Church Road, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £425,000, set in 2024. 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 Church Road, Chester?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 12 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, “Church Road, 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.