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Backford market report CH2 1, Chester
The standing CH2 1 (Backford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,695 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CH2 1 (Chester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CH2 1 (Chester) home changed hands for £309,500 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £338,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,695 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CH2 1 is one sector of CH2 (Chester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CH2 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in CH2 1 sells for
Across 42 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CH2 1 home went for £309,500. The mean is £338,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CH2 1 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CH2 1 homes have averaged around £3,280 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CH2 1 9% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CH2 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £309,500 | £309,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 150 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 136 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 129 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 145 |
| 2021 | £299,800 | £379,585 | 213 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 135 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 125 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 151 |
| 2017 | £237,500 | £323,926 | 152 |
| 2016 | £246,000 | £344,156 | 153 |
| 2015 | £238,800 | £337,424 | 165 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 198 |
| 2013 | £205,500 | £295,694 | 148 |
| 2012 | £209,500 | £308,358 | 124 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 130 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 107 |
| 2009 | £191,000 | £307,034 | 106 |
| 2008 | £196,200 | £321,613 | 86 |
| 2007 | £217,000 | £368,092 | 177 |
| 2006 | £207,500 | £360,193 | 150 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 131 |
| 2004 | £189,800 | £344,714 | 162 |
| 2003 | £137,000 | £252,387 | 161 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 191 |
| 2001 | £108,000 | £207,624 | 183 |
| 2000 | £90,800 | £178,195 | 158 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 165 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 136 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 197 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 153 |
| 1995 | £62,800 | £136,518 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical CH2 1 home went from £62,800 in 1995 to £309,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 127%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH2 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CH2 1 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around CH2 1
The local authority for CH2 1 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £712 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,586 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £309,500 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market CH2 1 is
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH2 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CH2, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CH2 1 (Backford)
Is CH2 1 (Backford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH2 1 (Backford)?
Are property prices falling in CH2 1 (Backford)?
Will CH2 1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in CH2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 74 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH2 district, not just CH2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cedar Grove, Hoole, Chester, CH2
- Dicksons Drive, Chester, Cheshire, CH2
- Parkland Drive, Elton, Chester, Cheshire
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CH2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in CH
Real sold prices by size across the CH area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £248,000 | £350,000 (+41%) | £557,000 (+59%) | £782,500 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £200,000 (+18%) | £245,000 (+23%) | £330,000 (+35%) | £425,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £145,500 | £158,000 (+9%) | £170,000 (+8%) | £227,500 (+34%) | £310,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £112,500 | £157,000 (+40%) | £230,000 (+46%) | £335,000 (+46%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CH2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CH2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH2 2 | £262,000 | 52 |
| CH2 3 | £303,500 | 82 |
| CH2 4 | £240,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full CH2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CH2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CH2 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CH2 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CH2 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CH2 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CH2 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH2 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH2 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.