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Backford market report CH2 3, Chester
The CH2 3 (Backford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,035 HM Land Registry entries for CH2 3 (Chester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CH2 3 (Chester) is £303,500, from 82 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier; the mean is £345,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,035 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CH2 3 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 3 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 3 sells for
82 sales were registered in CH2 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £303,500. The mean works out at £345,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CH2 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CH2 3 costs about £3,290 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CH2 3 sits 6% above the national market.
The price of a typical CH2 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £303,500 | £303,500 | 82 |
| 2025 | £279,500 | £286,184 | 182 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 172 |
| 2023 | £264,000 | £290,072 | 127 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 163 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 233 |
| 2020 | £222,000 | £288,050 | 178 |
| 2019 | £210,100 | £275,391 | 154 |
| 2018 | £213,800 | £284,999 | 168 |
| 2017 | £206,000 | £280,963 | 166 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 187 |
| 2015 | £199,000 | £281,187 | 203 |
| 2014 | £183,200 | £259,901 | 224 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 212 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 151 |
| 2011 | £166,500 | £251,351 | 118 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 150 |
| 2009 | £161,500 | £259,613 | 138 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 112 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 283 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 319 |
| 2005 | £153,500 | £273,168 | 328 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 315 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 298 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 343 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 342 |
| 2000 | £79,200 | £155,430 | 322 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 371 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 253 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 283 |
| 1996 | £56,600 | £119,367 | 251 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 207 |
In cash terms the typical CH2 3 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £303,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 168%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CH2 3 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 2000 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−8.1%). 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) | +8.6% | +6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.7% | +0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CH2 3 recorded 82 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 319 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the CH2 3 market
Within CH2, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around CH2 3
The local authority for CH2 3 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.
Against the £303,500 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 3.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CH2 3 (Backford)
How much did a house sell for in CH2 3 (Backford)?
Are property prices falling in CH2 3 (Backford)?
Is CH2 3 (Backford) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CH2 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 4% 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
Turning to what is actually available: 74 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH2 district, not just CH2 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CH area, 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 1 | £309,500 | 42 |
| CH2 2 | £262,000 | 52 |
| 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 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CH2 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CH2 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CH2 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CH2 3.
Go deeper
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See every individual CH2 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.