That is the middle of 112 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
112 homes sold in three years: 46 detached houses, 40 semi-detached houses and 26 terraced houses.
Detached houses£415K
median sale · 46 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£495K
Last 12 months
£418K18 sold
Semi-detached houses£303K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£420K
Last 12 months
£329K18 sold
Terraced houses£241K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£195K–£315K
Last 12 months
£245K6 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 41% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses41%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses23%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Tarvin’s homes sold for between £249K and £438K
One sale in ten was under £195K and one in ten over £565K. 26% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £321,250, sits in the £300–400K band
112 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £70,250 in 1995 to £342,500 in the last 12 months (£284,750 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
42 sales in the last 12 months, against 69 in 2014, the busiest year, and 15 in 2011. Sales fell by 37% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 14%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 38% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Tarvin costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Tarvin, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£80K
£118K
£300K
£285K
£365K
£374K
£418K
Semi-detached houses
£69K
£98K
£209K
£230K
£225K
£233K
£329K
Terraced houses
—
£80K
£105K
—
£195K
£209K
£245K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
132 new homes have been sold in Tarvin since 1995; the share peaked at 48% in 2014.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
8% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 8% sold leasehold in Tarvin. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
High Street is Tarvin’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
High Street
CH3
15
£260,000
Mixed
2
Crossfields
CH3
12
£405,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Platts Lane
CH3
7
£300,000
Mixed
4
The Ridgeway
CH3
6
£316,250
Mixed
5
Hockenhull Avenue
CH3
6
£272,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Fairfax Avenue
CH3
5
£106,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cheshire
Tarvin is the 15th most expensive of 46 towns in Cheshire
Tarvin is in the middle of Cheshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Tarvin
What is the average house price in Tarvin?
The median home in Tarvin sold for £321,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 112 standard sales (£342,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £415,000, semi-detached houses £302,500 and terraced houses £241,000.
Are house prices going up in Tarvin?
The median was £330,000 in 2025, up 16% on 2024 (£285,000), and £342,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Tarvin each year?
42 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 45 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Tarvin expensive for Cheshire?
Tarvin is the 15th most expensive of 46 towns of 2,500 or more in Cheshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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