Parkgate Road, Chester house prices are built from 220 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £198,750. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +73.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.5%.
Median price paid
£198,750
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+73.4%
Change in real terms
+23.5%
Median per m²
£2,083
HM Land Registry220 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Parkgate Road, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Parkgate Road, 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 | £72,000 | £159,874 |
| 2000s | 10 | £160,000 | £291,473 |
| 2010s | 6 | £259,975 | £366,565 |
| 2020s | 4 | £306,250 | £312,908 |
The highest yearly median on record for Parkgate Road, Chester is £375,000 in 2017; the lowest is £62,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £62,500 to £277,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £138,780, so the real change over the whole record is +104.3% — about +2.41% 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: +73.4% in cash against +23.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 331 | 28 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 29a | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 1 Grange Cottages | 17 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| 2 Grange Cottages | 25 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| 54 | 5 Jun 2025 | Detached | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| 2 Crabwall Lodge | 3 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 27a | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| Autumn Winds | 31 Oct 2024 | Detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 27 | 17 Oct 2024 | Detached | £125,000 | £131,530 |
| 19 | 22 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| Wincroft | 7 Feb 2024 | Detached | £800,000 | £841,791 |
| 54b | 6 Oct 2023 | Detached | £510,000 | £551,034 |
| Beehive Cottage | 31 May 2023 | Detached | £750,000 | £810,345 |
| Summer Winds | 2 Sep 2022 | Detached | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| Westfield | 2 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £446,056 |
| 11 | 31 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 25 | 1 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £223,000 | £258,365 |
| 303 | 22 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| The Old Post Office | 13 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £590,879 |
| West View | 5 May 2022 | Detached | £437,000 | £506,302 |
| 311 | 25 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 305 | 16 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £367,000 | £463,683 |
| 343 | 24 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £350,100 | £442,331 |
| Mill Cottage North | 23 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £568,548 |
| 18 | 18 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £354,000 | £447,258 |
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 Parkgate 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 331 Parkgate Road | £118,000 (1999) | £365,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 1 GRANGE COTTAGES Parkgate Road | £285,000 (2020) | £335,000 (2025) | +3.3% | -1.5% |
| 2 GRANGE COTTAGES Parkgate Road | £208,500 (2007) | £425,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 2 CRABWALL LODGE Parkgate Road | £210,000 (2007) | £200,000 (2025) | -0.3% | -3.2% |
| 27A Parkgate Road | £68,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| AUTUMN WINDS Parkgate Road | £399,995 (2007) | £375,000 (2024) | -0.4% | -3.3% |
| 27 Parkgate Road | £130,000 (2008) | £125,000 (2024) | -0.2% | -3.1% |
| 19 Parkgate Road | £68,000 (2002) | £215,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
| 54B Parkgate Road | £335,000 (2007) | £510,000 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| BEEHIVE COTTAGE Parkgate Road | £400,000 (2016) | £750,000 (2023) | +9.4% | +5.5% |
| WESTFIELD Parkgate Road | £200,000 (2009) | £385,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 25 Parkgate Road | £45,500 (1997) | £223,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Parkgate 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 94 | 42.7% | £208,500 | £55,000 – £510,000 |
| Detached | 74 | 33.6% | £292,500 | £31,250 – £842,000 |
| Terraced | 42 | 19.1% | £120,000 | £40,000 – £225,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 4.5% | £130,000 | £62,450 – £210,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Parkgate Road, Chester
10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 210 freehold — 4.5% 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 £137,500 and the median freehold sale £205,500 — a gap of +49.5%. 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 | 10 | 4.5% | £137,500 |
| Freehold | 210 | 95.5% | £205,500 |
| New build | 5 | 2.3% | £93,000 |
| Existing home | 215 | 97.7% | £201,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -53.7%. 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 26 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 Parkgate 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 £198,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.92% 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 Parkgate 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 Parkgate Road, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Parkgate Road, Chester sits above that national figure — +26.2%.
Within Chester the street ranks 757 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+25.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,083 per square metre, across 27 of the 220 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 £31,250 to £842,000. 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.
Parkgate 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
- 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
- THE LAURELS Parkgate Road6 sales
- 27A Parkgate Road5 sales
- 25 Parkgate Road5 sales
- 9 Parkgate Road5 sales
- 23 Parkgate Road5 sales
- 13 Parkgate Road5 sales
- 343 Parkgate Road4 sales
- STONE COTTAGE Parkgate Road4 sales
- RED ROOFS Parkgate Road4 sales
- 54A Parkgate Road4 sales
- 307 Parkgate Road4 sales
- 2, GRANGE COTTAGES Parkgate Road3 sales
- 2, CRABWALL LODGE Parkgate Road3 sales
- 27 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 19 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 54B Parkgate Road3 sales
- 311 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 3 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 29 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 14 Parkgate Road3 sales
- OVERWOOD HOUSE Parkgate Road3 sales
- 12 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 8 Parkgate Road3 sales
- 337 Parkgate Road3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Parkgate Road, Chester?
The median price paid in Parkgate Road, Chester across every sale on the register is £198,750. 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 Parkgate Road, Chester?
220 sales are on record for Parkgate Road, Chester, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Parkgate Road, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +73.4% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Parkgate Road, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2017. 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 Parkgate Road, Chester?
£2,083 per square metre, from the 27 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 28 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, “Parkgate 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.