The Square, Chester house prices

The Square, Chester house prices are built from 216 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £175,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +25.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.4%.

HM Land Registry216 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median The Square, Chester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 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.

The highest yearly median on record for The Square, Chester is £225,000 in 2016; the lowest is £129,200 in 2005. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £215,000 to £200,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £398,882, so the real change over the whole record is -48.8% — about -3.13% 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: +25.0% in cash against -9.4% 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.

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.

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 The Square, Chester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Square, Chester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

203 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13 freehold — 94.0% 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 £175,000 and the median freehold sale £100,000 — a gap of -42.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +7.2%. 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 16 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.

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.

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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Square, 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 £2,557 per square metre, across 1 of the 216 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 £564,800. 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.

The Square, 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.

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
• 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

• 25, CHEDWORTH HOUSE the Square4 sales
• 4, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 4, LINCOLN HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 16, CHEDWORTH HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 8, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 7, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 15, LINCOLN HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 21, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 24, CHEDWORTH HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 28, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 22, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 17, LINCOLN HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 10, COLCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 24, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 3, COLCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 1, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 30, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 12, LINCOLN HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 17, CHEDWORTH HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 14, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 5, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 2, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square3 sales
• 4, WINCHESTER HOUSE the Square2 sales
• 28, CORBRIDGE HOUSE the Square2 sales

Back to Chester house prices.

What is the average house price in The Square, Chester?

The median price paid in The Square, 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 The Square, Chester?

216 sales are on record for The Square, Chester, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Square, Chester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +25.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Square, Chester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, 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 The Square, Chester?

£2,557 per square metre, from the 1 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 19 Jun 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, “The Square, 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.