Queens Road, Chester house prices are built from 356 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 11 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,475. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +16.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.7%.
Median price paid
£165,475
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+16.3%
Change in real terms
-15.7%
Median per m²
£2,298
HM Land Registry356 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 11 May 2026
Section 01
How Queens Road, Chester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Queens Road, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 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 | 2 | £69,975 | £155,378 |
| 2000s | 8 | £141,725 | £258,181 |
| 2010s | 8 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 4 | £160,000 | £163,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Queens Road, Chester is £264,000 in 2020; the lowest is £69,975 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £69,975 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £145,095, so the real change over the whole record is +76.0% — about +2.12% 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: +16.3% in cash against -15.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 11 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 141 | 17 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £157,000 | £157,000 |
| 190 | 31 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £267,500 | £267,500 |
| 124 | 28 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 76 | 31 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 117 | 20 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £171,652 |
| 221 | 20 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 114 | 15 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 211 | 23 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £144,000 | £147,130 |
| 125 | 29 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 79 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| 118 | 10 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 27 | 23 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 186 | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 101 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £293,000 | £299,370 |
| 180 | 6 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £268,000 | £273,826 |
| 162 | 21 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 29 | 18 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £322,500 | £329,511 |
| 55 | 15 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £329,000 | £346,187 |
| 105 | 12 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 110 | 26 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £347,239 |
| 175 | 26 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 210 | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £98,500 | £106,425 |
| 99 | 10 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £287,000 | £310,092 |
| 225 | 31 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £101,563 |
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 Queens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Queens Road | £61,000 (1995) | £395,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 141 Queens Road | £147,475 (2006) | £157,000 (2026) | +0.3% | -2.5% |
| 190 Queens Road | £283,500 (2006) | £267,500 (2026) | -0.3% | -3.1% |
| 124 Queens Road | £177,000 (2006) | £375,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 117 Queens Road | £147,475 (2006) | £168,000 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 221 Queens Road | £81,850 (2006) | £100,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.9% |
| 114 Queens Road | £170,000 (2006) | £250,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 211 Queens Road | £112,850 (2007) | £144,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.6% |
| 125 Queens Road | £145,000 (2005) | £140,000 (2025) | -0.2% | -3.0% |
| 118 Queens Road | £191,250 (2006) | £140,000 (2025) | -1.6% | -4.5% |
| 27 Queens Road | £235,000 (2019) | £410,000 (2025) | +9.7% | +5.3% |
| 186 Queens Road | £283,500 (2006) | £300,000 (2025) | +0.3% | -2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Queens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 198 | 55.6% | £157,000 | £76,000 – £302,450 |
| Semi-detached | 140 | 39.3% | £174,950 | £40,000 – £410,000 |
| Terraced | 12 | 3.4% | £180,000 | £56,500 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 1.7% | £116,000 | £82,000 – £246,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Queens Road, Chester
198 of the sales on record are leasehold and 158 freehold — 55.6% 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 £157,000 and the median freehold sale £177,500 — a gap of +13.1%. 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 | 198 | 55.6% | £157,000 |
| Freehold | 158 | 44.4% | £177,500 |
| New build | 99 | 27.8% | £170,000 |
| Existing home | 257 | 72.2% | £160,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +6.3%. 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 10 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 Queens Road, 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 £165,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.12% 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 Queens Road, 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 Queens Road, Chester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Queens Road, Chester sits above that national figure — +5.1%.
Within Chester the street ranks 1008 of 1796 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+4.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,298 per square metre, across 32 of the 356 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 £40,000 to £410,000. 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.
Queens Road, 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
- 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
- Dee Banks£295,000 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
- 117 Queens Road7 sales
- 110 Queens Road7 sales
- 211 Queens Road6 sales
- 113 Queens Road6 sales
- 5 Queens Road6 sales
- 124 Queens Road5 sales
- 29 Queens Road5 sales
- 106 Queens Road5 sales
- 210 Queens Road4 sales
- 225 Queens Road4 sales
- 129 Queens Road4 sales
- 206 Queens Road4 sales
- 119 Queens Road4 sales
- 94 Queens Road4 sales
- 3 Queens Road4 sales
- 6 Queens Road4 sales
- 9 Queens Road4 sales
- 35 Queens Road3 sales
- 141 Queens Road3 sales
- 190 Queens Road3 sales
- 221 Queens Road3 sales
- 114 Queens Road3 sales
- 125 Queens Road3 sales
- 118 Queens Road3 sales
Back to Chester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Queens Road, Chester?
The median price paid in Queens Road, Chester across every sale on the register is £165,475. 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 Queens Road, Chester?
356 sales are on record for Queens Road, Chester, the most recent completing on 11 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Queens Road, Chester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +16.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Queens Road, Chester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £264,000, 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 Queens Road, Chester?
£2,298 per square metre, from the 32 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 11 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, “Queens 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.