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Backford market report CH2 2, Chester
The CH2 2 (Backford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,848 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH2 2 (Chester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CH2 2 (Chester) is £262,000, from 52 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £268,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,270 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,848 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CH2 2 is a single group of streets within CH2 (Chester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CH2 2 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 2 sells for
Across 52 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CH2 2 home went for £262,000. The mean is £268,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CH2 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CH2 2 sales average about £3,270 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CH2 2 trades 8% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CH2 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £262,000 | £262,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 125 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 117 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 98 |
| 2022 | £278,500 | £326,573 | 148 |
| 2021 | £238,200 | £301,592 | 148 |
| 2020 | £231,000 | £299,727 | 121 |
| 2019 | £232,500 | £304,752 | 127 |
| 2018 | £199,500 | £265,937 | 112 |
| 2017 | £195,500 | £266,642 | 137 |
| 2016 | £196,500 | £274,905 | 150 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 148 |
| 2014 | £177,000 | £251,105 | 133 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 158 |
| 2012 | £175,200 | £257,873 | 88 |
| 2011 | £173,000 | £261,163 | 99 |
| 2010 | £177,000 | £277,582 | 106 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 96 |
| 2008 | £161,000 | £263,913 | 81 |
| 2007 | £167,500 | £284,127 | 221 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 215 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 149 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 190 |
| 2003 | £132,500 | £244,097 | 225 |
| 2002 | £113,200 | £212,985 | 273 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 214 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 188 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 257 |
| 1998 | £63,500 | £128,179 | 192 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 173 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 172 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical CH2 2 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £262,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 108%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH2 2 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 2002 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−10.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.8% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in CH2 2
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 52 sales completed in CH2 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 209 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
What tenants pay around CH2 2
For renting purposes CH2 2 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £712 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,586, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £262,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the CH2 2 market
This is a thin market: 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
CH2 2 (Backford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CH2 2 (Backford)?
Is CH2 2 (Backford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CH2 2 (Backford)?
Will CH2 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CH2 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Cedar Grove, Hoole, Chester, CH2
- Dicksons Drive, Chester, Cheshire, CH2
- Parkland Drive, Elton, Chester, Cheshire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CH2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in CH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CH area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CH2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CH2 1 | £309,500 | 42 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CH2 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CH2 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working CH2 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CH2 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH2 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CH2 2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.