Downing Close, Prenton house prices are built from 136 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 10 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,500. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved -16.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -35.7%.
Median price paid
£70,500
Change in cash, 2007–2018
-16.1%
Change in real terms
-35.7%
Median per m²
£1,328
HM Land Registry136 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Downing Close, Prenton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downing Close, Prenton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2018. 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 | 3 | £30,000 | £66,614 |
| 2000s | 6 | £65,000 | £118,411 |
| 2010s | 2 | £76,500 | £107,865 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downing Close, Prenton is £96,000 in 2006; the lowest is £28,475 in 1998. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £30,000 to £79,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £63,609, so the real change over the whole record is +67.1% — about +2.47% 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: -16.1% in cash against -35.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 10 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 18 | 26 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| 12a | 20 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 42 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 7 | 6 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £117,500 | £123,638 |
| 45 | 23 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 10 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 28 | 5 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £127,494 |
| 33 | 27 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £142,506 |
| 29 | 23 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £101,956 |
| 60 | 21 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £147,141 |
| 41 | 5 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 72 | 29 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £89,500 | £113,078 |
| 10 | 30 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 37 | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 31 | 2 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £78,500 | £101,639 |
| 27 | 5 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £93,223 |
| 70 | 3 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £120,334 |
| 52 | 27 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £120,334 |
| 57 | 15 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £88,500 | £115,756 |
| 41 | 13 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £79,500 | £105,950 |
| 8 | 13 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £106,616 |
| 12a | 20 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £116,612 |
| 60 | 11 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £139,934 |
| 68 | 4 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £79,962 |
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 Downing Close, Prenton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Downing Close | £80,000 (2009) | £110,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.0% |
| 12A Downing Close | £37,500 (2000) | £100,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 42 Downing Close | £25,950 (1998) | £130,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 7 Downing Close | £35,000 (1999) | £117,500 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 10 Downing Close | £30,000 (1997) | £110,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 28 Downing Close | £82,000 (2004) | £118,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 33 Downing Close | £37,000 (2000) | £123,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +3.0% |
| 60 Downing Close | £65,000 (2015) | £127,000 (2022) | +10.0% | +7.0% |
| 41 Downing Close | £31,000 (2000) | £85,000 (2021) | +4.9% | +2.7% |
| 72 Downing Close | £33,000 (1998) | £89,500 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 37 Downing Close | £30,500 (1998) | £95,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 31 Downing Close | £29,000 (2002) | £78,500 (2020) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downing Close, Prenton 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 | 131 | 96.3% | £71,000 | £20,000 – £130,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 2.2% | £59,950 | £27,000 – £65,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 1.5% | £33,000 | £33,000 – £89,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downing Close, Prenton
136 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 136 | 100.0% | £70,500 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
A further 4 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 Downing Close, Prenton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wirral, 37.1% of 163,066 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 419 | 0.3% |
| B | 10,871 | 6.7% |
| C | 49,164 | 30.1% |
| D | 68,077 | 41.7% |
| E | 27,066 | 16.6% |
| F | 5,564 | 3.4% |
| G | 1,905 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wirral at £845 a month as of Jun 2026 — £563 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £70,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.38% 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 CH43, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 1 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 320,199 residents the 2021 census counted in Wirral, that is 0.47 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 Downing Close, Prenton
The 2021 census counted 320,199 residents in Wirral across 143,252 households. 65.6% of those households own their home and 34.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
14 state and independent schools have a CH43 postcode: 9 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birkenhead High School Academy | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,226 |
| St Anselm's College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,002 |
| Ridgeway High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 858 |
| Birkenhead Park School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 731 |
| Townfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 487 |
| Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 404 |
| Prenton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 393 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 237 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 216 |
| Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Upton Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Birkenhead Central Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Conway Park Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Green Lane Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
Section 09
How Downing Close, Prenton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downing Close, Prenton sits below that national figure — -55.2%.
Within Prenton the street ranks 407 of 451 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £124,950 (-43.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,328 per square metre, across 27 of the 136 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 £20,000 to £130,000. 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.
Downing Close, Prenton sits in Wirral, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wirral at 6.1 times median local earnings of £35,483 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
- Bidston Road£83,500 median
- Shrewsbury Road£120,000 median
- Woodchurch Road£125,000 median
- Beresford Road£102,750 median
- Hogarth Drive£202,950 median
- Holmlands Drive£139,500 median
- Upton Road£118,488 median
- Durley Drive£125,000 median
- Prenton Dell Road£127,000 median
- Forest Road£76,950 median
- Statham Road£118,000 median
- Grosvenor Road£76,500 median
- Holm Lane£134,000 median
- Prenton Hall Road£144,070 median
- Cearns Road£111,250 median
- Devonshire Place£89,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 42 Downing Close5 sales
- 10 Downing Close5 sales
- 41 Downing Close5 sales
- 70 Downing Close5 sales
- 12A Downing Close4 sales
- 7 Downing Close4 sales
- 60 Downing Close4 sales
- 59 Downing Close4 sales
- 53 Downing Close4 sales
- 25 Downing Close4 sales
- 28 Downing Close3 sales
- 33 Downing Close3 sales
- 31 Downing Close3 sales
- 52 Downing Close3 sales
- 8 Downing Close3 sales
- 43 Downing Close3 sales
- 47 Downing Close3 sales
- 2 Downing Close3 sales
- 44 Downing Close3 sales
- 48 Downing Close3 sales
- 36 Downing Close3 sales
- 30 Downing Close2 sales
- 72 Downing Close2 sales
- 37 Downing Close2 sales
Back to Prenton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downing Close, Prenton?
The median price paid in Downing Close, Prenton across every sale on the register is £70,500. 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 Downing Close, Prenton?
136 sales are on record for Downing Close, Prenton, the most recent completing on 10 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downing Close, Prenton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -16.1% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -35.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downing Close, Prenton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £96,000, set in 2006. 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 Downing Close, Prenton?
£1,328 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 10 Oct 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, “Downing Close, Prenton 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.