Hough Green, Chester house prices are built from 239 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £280,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -2.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.4%.
Median price paid
£280,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-2.5%
Change in real terms
-29.4%
Median per m²
£2,072
HM Land Registry239 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Hough Green, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Hough Green, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £98,500 | £218,717 |
| 2000s | 9 | £320,000 | £582,946 |
| 2010s | 9 | £457,500 | £645,075 |
| 2020s | 6 | £575,000 | £587,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Hough Green, Chester is £735,000 in 2021; the lowest is £95,000 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £112,500 to £575,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £249,803, so the real change over the whole record is +135.2% — about +2.89% 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: -2.5% in cash against -29.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 the Hamlet | 16 Jan 2026 | Detached | £699,000 | £699,000 |
| Apartment 6 Cavendish House, 42 | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £202,500 | £206,902 |
| Flat 5 Goldsmith House, 50 | 25 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 1 Langdon House, 20 | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 16 | 24 Sep 2025 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,226,087 |
| 14 | 5 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £1,125,000 | £1,149,457 |
| 57 | 6 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| Apartment 2 Cavendish House, 42 | 14 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 26 | 14 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £940,000 | £960,435 |
| 4 Langdon House, 20 | 31 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 153 | 10 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 30 | 9 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £830,000 | £873,358 |
| 17 | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £850,000 | £894,403 |
| 51 | 19 Jan 2024 | Detached | £690,000 | £726,045 |
| 4 | 10 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £1,060,000 | £1,145,287 |
| The Coach House 50 | 31 Oct 2023 | Detached | £500,000 | £540,230 |
| 80b | 20 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| Flat 2 Goldsmith House, 50 | 2 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 61 | 16 Feb 2023 | Detached | £570,000 | £615,862 |
| 17a | 15 Sep 2022 | Detached | £935,000 | £1,083,279 |
| 4 Langdon House, 20 | 15 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £237,000 | £274,585 |
| Apartment 4 Cavendish House, 42 | 20 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 13 | 18 May 2022 | Detached | £1,175,000 | £1,361,339 |
| 119 | 29 Apr 2022 | Detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| The Coach House 50 | 1 Mar 2022 | Detached | £402,000 | £465,752 |
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 Hough Green, 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 6 CAVENDISH HOUSE, 42 Hough Green | £158,000 (2013) | £202,500 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 1 LANGDON HOUSE, 20 Hough Green | £71,000 (1996) | £340,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 16 Hough Green | £450,000 (2010) | £1,200,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +3.6% |
| 14 Hough Green | £222,500 (1997) | £1,125,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| APARTMENT 2 CAVENDISH HOUSE, 42 Hough Green | £245,000 (2008) | £220,000 (2025) | -0.6% | -3.5% |
| 26 Hough Green | £433,500 (2010) | £940,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.2% |
| 4 LANGDON HOUSE, 20 Hough Green | £81,950 (1996) | £275,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| 30 Hough Green | £167,000 (1996) | £830,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 17 Hough Green | £112,500 (1995) | £850,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| 51 Hough Green | £237,500 (2001) | £690,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 4 Hough Green | £450,000 (2003) | £1,060,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| THE COACH HOUSE 50 Hough Green | £80,000 (1996) | £500,000 (2023) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hough Green, 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 | 91 | 38.1% | £430,000 | £80,000 – £1,200,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 77 | 32.2% | £162,000 | £59,950 – £450,000 |
| Semi-detached | 62 | 25.9% | £380,000 | £79,000 – £1,125,000 |
| Terraced | 9 | 3.8% | £700,000 | £112,500 – £850,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Hough Green, Chester
82 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 34.3% 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 £165,000 and the median freehold sale £425,000 — a gap of +157.6%. 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 | 82 | 34.3% | £165,000 |
| Freehold | 157 | 65.7% | £425,000 |
| New build | 20 | 8.4% | £180,000 |
| Existing home | 219 | 91.6% | £315,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -42.9%. 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 7 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 Hough Green, 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 £280,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.20% 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 CH4, 20 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 8.4 times quieter.
Against the 357,150 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire West and Chester, that is 0.06 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 Hough Green, 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.
9 state and independent schools have a CH4 postcode: 6 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Catholic High School, Chester | Secondary | Academy converter | 797 |
| Queen's Park High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 792 |
| Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| Chester International School | Secondary | Studio schools | 229 |
| Belgrave Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Lache Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 169 |
| St Clare's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 163 |
| Eccleston CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 91 |
| Dodleston CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 65 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bache Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Hawarden Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Buckley Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
| Penyffordd Rail Station | Rail | 7.6 km |
Section 09
How Hough Green, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hough Green, Chester sits above that national figure — +77.8%.
Within Chester the street ranks 371 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+77.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,072 per square metre, across 46 of the 239 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 £59,950 to £1,200,000. 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.
Hough Green, Chester sits in Cheshire West and Chester, in Wales.
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
- Victoria Road£110,000 median
- Main Road£152,500 median
- Cherry Dale Road£110,000 median
- Hartington Street£134,375 median
- Boundary Lane£90,500 median
- Stanley Park Drive£76,000 median
- Oldfield Crescent£133,775 median
- Lache Lane£364,975 median
- St Marks Road£113,500 median
- Pyecroft Street£146,000 median
- Overleigh Road£174,000 median
- Lache Park Avenue£180,000 median
- Llys Derwen£130,000 median
- Bradford Street£125,850 median
- Penymynydd Road£145,000 median
- Cwrt Y Terfyn£127,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 4, LANGDON HOUSE, 20 Hough Green7 sales
- 5, LANGDON HOUSE, 20 Hough Green6 sales
- 129 Hough Green5 sales
- 68 Hough Green5 sales
- 84A Hough Green5 sales
- 1, LANGDON HOUSE, 20 Hough Green4 sales
- 30 Hough Green4 sales
- 17 Hough Green4 sales
- THE COACH HOUSE, 50 Hough Green4 sales
- 17A Hough Green4 sales
- 5 Hough Green4 sales
- FLAT 1, 12 Hough Green4 sales
- 24 Hough Green4 sales
- 12 Hough Green4 sales
- 16 Hough Green3 sales
- 14 Hough Green3 sales
- 26 Hough Green3 sales
- 51 Hough Green3 sales
- 4 Hough Green3 sales
- 13 Hough Green3 sales
- 121 Hough Green3 sales
- 78 Hough Green3 sales
- 141 Hough Green3 sales
- FLAT 1, GOLDSMITH HOUSE, 50 Hough Green3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Hough Green, Chester?
The median price paid in Hough Green, Chester across every sale on the register is £280,000. 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 Hough Green, Chester?
239 sales are on record for Hough Green, Chester, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Hough Green, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -2.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Hough Green, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £735,000, 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 Hough Green, Chester?
£2,072 per square metre, from the 46 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 16 Jan 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, “Hough Green, 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.