Foregate Street, Chester house prices are built from 167 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 4 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £175,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved 0.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -27.3%.
Median price paid
£175,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
0.0%
Change in real terms
-27.3%
Median per m²
£2,592
HM Land Registry167 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 4 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Foregate Street, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Foregate Street, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2021. 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 | 8 | £160,500 | £292,384 |
| 2010s | 3 | £204,250 | £287,993 |
| 2020s | 1 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Foregate Street, Chester is £233,000 in 2016; the lowest is £137,500 in 2000. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £137,500 to £180,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £275,000, so the real change over the whole record is -17.3% — about -0.90% 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: 0.0% in cash against -27.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 16 156 | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Apartment 26 156 | 5 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £194,000 | £204,134 |
| Apartment 11 156 | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £207,000 | £223,655 |
| Apartment 38 156 | 6 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| Apartment 53 156 | 25 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| Plot 56 156 | 9 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £465,000 | £538,743 |
| Apartment 61 156 | 24 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £214,339 |
| Apartment 64 156 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £365,000 | £461,156 |
| Apartment 2 156 | 27 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £162,800 | £205,688 |
| Apartment 22 156 | 26 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £152,500 | £192,675 |
| Apartment 40 156 | 15 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 15 Parkers Buildings | 10 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £137,000 | £173,091 |
| Apartment 11 156 | 22 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| Apartment 60 156 | 18 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £490,000 | £619,086 |
| Apartment 52 156 | 23 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| Apartment 18 156 | 13 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £198,099 |
| Apartment 15 156 | 27 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £297,796 |
| 2 Park Court | 3 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £90,634 |
| Apartment 29 156 | 2 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £300,835 |
| Apartment 11 156 | 31 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £228,896 |
| Apartment 28 156 | 9 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £161,000 | £210,584 |
| Apartment 27 156 | 1 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £294,295 |
| Apartment 50 156 | 21 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £228,896 |
| Apartment 42 156 | 17 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £171,500 | £224,318 |
| Apartment 31 156 | 15 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £224,000 | £292,987 |
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 Foregate Street, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 16 156 Foregate Street | £202,000 (2002) | £195,000 (2025) | -0.2% | -2.9% |
| APARTMENT 26 156 Foregate Street | £130,000 (2001) | £194,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| APARTMENT 11 156 Foregate Street | £165,000 (2002) | £207,000 (2023) | +1.1% | -1.7% |
| APARTMENT 38 156 Foregate Street | £187,500 (2001) | £240,000 (2022) | +1.2% | -1.3% |
| APARTMENT 53 156 Foregate Street | £216,495 (2000) | £285,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.2% |
| PLOT 56 156 Foregate Street | £350,000 (2001) | £465,000 (2022) | +1.4% | -1.1% |
| APARTMENT 61 156 Foregate Street | £140,000 (2000) | £185,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.2% |
| APARTMENT 64 156 Foregate Street | £250,000 (2002) | £365,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| APARTMENT 2 156 Foregate Street | £142,000 (2002) | £162,800 (2021) | +0.7% | -1.5% |
| APARTMENT 22 156 Foregate Street | £99,950 (2001) | £152,500 (2021) | +2.1% | -0.1% |
| APARTMENT 40 156 Foregate Street | £165,000 (2001) | £185,000 (2021) | +0.6% | -1.6% |
| APARTMENT 60 156 Foregate Street | £350,000 (2000) | £490,000 (2021) | +1.6% | -0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Foregate Street, 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 | 164 | 98.2% | £175,000 | £25,000 – £490,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 1.2% | £175,000 | £175,000 – £325,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.6% | £60,000 | £60,000 – £60,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Foregate Street, Chester
164 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 98.2% 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 £176,250 and the median freehold sale £175,000 — a gap of -0.7%. 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 | 164 | 98.2% | £176,250 |
| Freehold | 3 | 1.8% | £175,000 |
| New build | 51 | 30.5% | £165,000 |
| Existing home | 116 | 69.5% | £178,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -7.7%. 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 46 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 Foregate Street, 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 £175,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.73% 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 Foregate Street, 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 Foregate Street, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Foregate Street, Chester sits above that national figure — +11.1%.
Within Chester the street ranks 926 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+10.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,592 per square metre, across 48 of the 167 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 £25,000 to £490,000. 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.
Foregate Street, 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
- Church Road£192,000 median
- Gladstone Avenue£160,000 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
- APARTMENT 11, 156 Foregate Street6 sales
- APARTMENT 38, 156 Foregate Street6 sales
- APARTMENT 16, 156 Foregate Street5 sales
- APARTMENT 26, 156 Foregate Street5 sales
- APARTMENT 52, 156 Foregate Street5 sales
- APARTMENT 53, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 61, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 2, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 60, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 15, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 28, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 31, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 19, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 8, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 54, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- APARTMENT 55, 156 Foregate Street4 sales
- PLOT 56, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 64, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 22, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- 2, PARK COURT Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 50, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 33, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 34, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
- APARTMENT 47, 156 Foregate Street3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Foregate Street, Chester?
The median price paid in Foregate Street, Chester across every sale on the register is £175,000. 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 Foregate Street, Chester?
167 sales are on record for Foregate Street, Chester, the most recent completing on 4 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Foregate Street, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose 0.0% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -27.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Foregate Street, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £233,000, set in 2016. 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 Foregate Street, Chester?
£2,592 per square metre, from the 48 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 4 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, “Foregate Street, 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.