Local housing market reports

The Council monitors conditions in the local housing market so it can improve the housing market conditions of people living in the borough. These reports:

• Determine current market conditions
• Identify where improvement is needed
• Enable us to target resources to best effect
• Monitor trends in the local housing market and
• Monitor the impact of any interventions

We are committed to a programme of research that will help us to understand the local housing market in Cheshire West and Chester and develop plans to address any weaknesses.

Quarterly Housing Market Bulletins

• Quarterly Housing Market Bulletin (October - December 2011) (PDF, 1.65MB) 
• Quarterly Housing Market Bulletin (July - September 2011) (PDF, 1.7MB)
• Quarterly Housing Market Bulletin (April - June 2011) (PDF, 716KB)
• Quarterly Housing Market Bulletin (January - March 2011) (PDF, 756KB)
• Quarterly Housing Market Bulletin (October - December 2010) (PDF, 357KB)  

Local Housing Market Reports

• Local Housing Market Report (April 2010 - March 2011) (PDF, 2.13MB)  
• Housing Market Report Volume 3 (March - September 2010) (PDF, 641KB)
• Local Housing Market Report (October 2009 - March 2010) (PDF, 4.26MB) 
• Local Housing Market Report (April - September 2009) (PDF, 2.48MB)

If you would like a hard copy of the reports, please contact the Housing Strategy Team at housingstrategy@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk (postal charges may apply).

Movers' survey

The Movers' Survey (PDF 553Kb) allows us to get a better idea of how conditions in the local housing market are affecting newly-forming households and first-time buyers. 

We asked a series of questions to people moving into newly built homes and the findings reinforce the need for:

• More housing in the borough to meet local people’s housing needs;
• Help for those those on the margins of affordability and promote the ladder of opportunity that results in a healthy, active housing market;
• Create a better balance in the local housing market in terms of both property size and type and tenure mix;
• Cater for the needs of an increasingly ageing local population;
• New homes that support our ambitious plans for economic development and our core regeneration programmes.

Together with other research, this survey helps us to determine the priorities for new housing development in the borough and to establish new schemes to help more local people, especially first time buyers, get onto the housing ladder in future.