Wirral house prices

Wirral house prices are built from 86,413 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.4%.

HM Land Registry86,413 sales14,100 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wirral house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 Wirral is £255,000 in 2025; the lowest is £50,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £255,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +129.7% — about +2.72% 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: +50.0% in cash against +7.4% 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 Wirral values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 16,835 certificates cover Wirral, and their median floor area is 85 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +11.8%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

11,818 of the sales on record are leasehold and 74,595 freehold — 13.7% 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 £108,850 and the median freehold sale £150,000 — a gap of +37.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.9%. 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 3,064 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 £143,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.23% 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 CH62, 105 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 34 violent, 2 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 12 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.

Against the 357,150 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire West and Chester, that is 0.29 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.

9 state and independent schools have a CH62 postcode: 8 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. Wirral sits below that national figure — -9.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,764 per square metre, across 14,100 of the 86,413 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 £400 to £4,200,000. 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.

Wirral 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 in Wirral

• New Chester Road697 sales
• Pensby Road637 sales
• Church Road439 sales
• Telegraph Road377 sales
• Millhouse Lane365 sales
• Plymyard Avenue360 sales
• Market Street356 sales
• Greasby Road335 sales
• Irby Road327 sales
• Brookhurst Avenue320 sales
• Leasowe Road319 sales
• Meols Drive295 sales
• Heath Road294 sales
• Birkenhead Road283 sales
• Norwich Drive273 sales
• Park Road272 sales
• Banks Road271 sales
• Barnston Road268 sales
• Frankby Road268 sales
• Sutherland Drive258 sales
• Hoylake Road245 sales
• Eastham Rake238 sales
• Raeburn Avenue233 sales
• Alderley Road230 sales
• Caldy Road224 sales
• Manorside Close223 sales
• Village Road222 sales
• Redcroft221 sales
• Reeds Lane218 sales
• South Parade217 sales
• Milner Road209 sales
• Ennisdale Drive207 sales
• Trinity Road201 sales
• Manor Road199 sales
• Allport Road196 sales
• Manor Drive192 sales
• Thingwall Road192 sales
• Grampian Way185 sales
• Mount Road183 sales
• Orrysdale Road183 sales
• Heygarth Road182 sales
• Borrowdale Road181 sales
• South Drive176 sales
• Riversdale Road173 sales
• School Lane170 sales
• Ridgewood Drive168 sales
• Fishers Lane166 sales
• Stanley Road166 sales
• Acre Lane164 sales
• Town Lane163 sales
• New Hey Road160 sales
• Dale Avenue159 sales
• Grange Road159 sales
• Kingfisher Way159 sales
• Dearnford Avenue158 sales
• Higher Bebington Road156 sales
• Bridle Road155 sales
• Mill Park Drive153 sales
• Magazine Road152 sales
• Kylemore Drive151 sales

Postcode districts covering Wirral

• CH62£120,000 median
• CH49£127,500 median
• CH63£150,000 median
• CH46£115,000 median
• CH48£190,000 median
• CH61£161,000 median
• CH60£230,000 median
• CH47£175,000 median
• CH43£124,999 median
• CH42£76,500 median

What is the average house price in Wirral?

The median price paid in Wirral across every sale on the register is £143,000. 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 Wirral?

86,413 sales are on record for Wirral, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wirral house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +50.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wirral house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £255,000, set in 2025. 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 Wirral?

£1,764 per square metre, from the 14,100 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 23 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, “Wirral 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.