Dee Banks, Chester house prices are built from 153 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 15 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £295,000. Across the 10 years from 2010 to 2020 the median moved +74.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +41.4%.
Median price paid
£295,000
Change in cash, 2010–2020
+74.4%
Change in real terms
+41.4%
Median per m²
£2,297
HM Land Registry153 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Dee Banks, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dee Banks, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2020. 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 | £126,000 | £279,780 |
| 2000s | 7 | £295,000 | £537,403 |
| 2010s | 5 | £390,000 | £549,900 |
| 2020s | 1 | £680,000 | £694,783 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dee Banks, Chester is £680,000 in 2020; the lowest is £115,000 in 1997. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £115,000 to £680,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £243,835, so the real change over the whole record is +261.1% — about +5.74% 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: +74.4% in cash against +41.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 15 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £332,500 | £339,728 |
| 75c | 21 Nov 2025 | Detached | £416,664 | £425,722 |
| 57 | 12 Dec 2024 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,262,687 |
| 7 Riverside Court | 28 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 9 Riverside Court | 20 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 1 Walmoor Bank Mews | 20 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £430,000 | £464,598 |
| Flat 4 29 | 1 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 2 Walmoor Bank Mews | 1 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £420,000 | £486,606 |
| 1 | 5 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £445,000 | £515,571 |
| 5 Deva Heights | 24 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 4 Deva Heights | 3 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 75b | 14 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £461,156 |
| 5 | 7 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £262,500 | £339,876 |
| The Tea House, 69a | 4 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £606,000 | £784,628 |
| 69 | 29 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £688,000 | £890,799 |
| 67 | 25 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £715,000 | £925,758 |
| 53 | 3 Jul 2020 | Detached | £860,000 | £1,113,499 |
| 49 | 19 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £680,000 | £880,441 |
| 6 Riverside Court | 12 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £407,851 |
| 2 Deva Heights | 8 Nov 2019 | Detached | £158,000 | £206,660 |
| Flat 1 29 | 17 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £297,000 | £395,813 |
| 1 Riverside Court | 31 Oct 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £605,000 | £806,285 |
| 3 Walmoor House | 28 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £866,257 |
| 8a | 6 Jul 2018 | Detached | £1,450,000 | £1,932,420 |
| 65a | 27 Apr 2018 | Detached | £910,000 | £1,212,760 |
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 Dee Banks, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Dee Banks | £207,000 (2012) | £332,500 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 75C Dee Banks | £80,000 (1997) | £416,664 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 57 Dee Banks | £712,000 (2017) | £1,200,000 (2024) | +7.7% | +3.9% |
| 7 RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks | £132,000 (1997) | £375,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 9 RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks | £88,750 (1997) | £300,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 1 WALMOOR BANK MEWS Dee Banks | £230,000 (2001) | £430,000 (2023) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 4 29 Dee Banks | £116,000 (1998) | £400,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 2 WALMOOR BANK MEWS Dee Banks | £250,000 (2002) | £420,000 (2022) | +2.6% | +0.0% |
| 1 Dee Banks | £185,000 (2013) | £445,000 (2022) | +10.2% | +7.5% |
| 5 DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks | £74,950 (1999) | £150,000 (2021) | +3.2% | +1.0% |
| 4 DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks | £212,500 (2002) | £290,000 (2021) | +1.6% | -0.6% |
| 75B Dee Banks | £58,950 (1995) | £365,000 (2021) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dee Banks, 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 | 60 | 39.2% | £207,500 | £38,750 – £670,000 |
| Detached | 47 | 30.7% | £415,000 | £74,950 – £1,450,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 20.3% | £370,000 | £58,950 – £860,000 |
| Terraced | 15 | 9.8% | £262,500 | £131,510 – £445,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dee Banks, Chester
61 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 39.9% 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 £177,000 and the median freehold sale £367,500 — a gap of +107.6%. 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 | 61 | 39.9% | £177,000 |
| Freehold | 92 | 60.1% | £367,500 |
| New build | 12 | 7.8% | £242,475 |
| Existing home | 141 | 92.2% | £305,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.5%. 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 4 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 Dee Banks, 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 £295,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.99% 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 Dee Banks, 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 Dee Banks, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dee Banks, Chester sits above that national figure — +87.3%.
Within Chester the street ranks 330 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+86.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,297 per square metre, across 15 of the 153 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 £38,750 to £1,450,000. 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.
Dee Banks, 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
- Arkle Court£78,200 median
- Castlefields£134,950 median
- Becketts Lane£183,000 median
- Heath Lane£210,000 median
- Bluebell Close£106,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5, DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks6 sales
- 6, DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks5 sales
- 2, WALMOOR BANK MEWS Dee Banks4 sales
- 1, RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks4 sales
- 5 Dee Banks3 sales
- 75C Dee Banks3 sales
- 7, RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks3 sales
- 9, RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks3 sales
- 1, WALMOOR BANK MEWS Dee Banks3 sales
- 4, DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks3 sales
- 75B Dee Banks3 sales
- 67 Dee Banks3 sales
- 53 Dee Banks3 sales
- FLAT 1, 29 Dee Banks3 sales
- 65A Dee Banks3 sales
- 21 Dee Banks3 sales
- 8, DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks3 sales
- 31 Dee Banks3 sales
- 4, RIVERSIDE COURT Dee Banks3 sales
- 35 Dee Banks3 sales
- FLAT 2, 29 Dee Banks3 sales
- 61 Dee Banks3 sales
- 11, DEVA HEIGHTS Dee Banks3 sales
- 69A Dee Banks3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dee Banks, Chester?
The median price paid in Dee Banks, Chester across every sale on the register is £295,000. 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 Dee Banks, Chester?
153 sales are on record for Dee Banks, Chester, the most recent completing on 15 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dee Banks, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +74.4% between 2010 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +41.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dee Banks, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £680,000, set in 2020. 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 Dee Banks, Chester?
£2,297 per square metre, from the 15 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 15 Dec 2025. 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, “Dee Banks, 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.