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Backford market report CH2 4, Chester
The standing CH2 4 (Backford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,789 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CH2 4 (Chester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CH2 4 (Chester) sold for £240,000 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £259,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,789 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CH2 4 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 4 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 4 sells for
Take the 38 registered 2026 sales in CH2 4 and the middle price, the median, is £240,000. The mean lands at £259,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CH2 4
A square metre of CH2 4 home has cost about £2,800 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CH2 4 runs 16% below it.
The price of a typical CH2 4 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £232,600 | £238,162 | 94 |
| 2024 | £217,500 | £231,247 | 76 |
| 2023 | £213,000 | £234,035 | 78 |
| 2022 | £243,500 | £285,532 | 119 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 153 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 84 |
| 2019 | £161,000 | £211,032 | 100 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 88 |
| 2017 | £167,500 | £228,453 | 116 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 97 |
| 2015 | £164,000 | £231,732 | 101 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 117 |
| 2013 | £146,200 | £210,367 | 92 |
| 2012 | £134,000 | £197,231 | 63 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 52 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 62 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 53 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 60 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 127 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 158 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 156 |
| 2004 | £141,000 | £256,084 | 164 |
| 2003 | £101,000 | £186,066 | 210 |
| 2002 | £89,700 | £168,770 | 210 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 163 |
| 2000 | £64,200 | £125,993 | 164 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 163 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 188 |
| 1997 | £54,200 | £111,153 | 156 |
| 1996 | £52,900 | £111,564 | 152 |
| 1995 | £48,800 | £106,084 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical CH2 4 home went from £48,800 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 126%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CH2 4 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 (+39.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CH2 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in CH2 4
How many homes change hands
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, 38 sales completed in CH2 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.
How CH2 4 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CH2 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CH2 district median, CH2 4 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CH2 4
CH2 4 falls under Cheshire West and Chester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £712 a month here against £1,586 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheshire West and Chester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Asked and answered: CH2 4 (Backford)
How much did a house sell for in CH2 4 (Backford)?
Are property prices falling in CH2 4 (Backford)?
Is CH2 4 (Backford) a good place to buy a house?
Are CH2 4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CH2 right now
The live side of the market holds 74 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CH2 district, not just CH2 4: 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
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CH area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £262,000 | 52 |
| CH2 3 | £303,500 | 82 |
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 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CH2 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CH2 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CH2 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CH2 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CH2 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CH2 4 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.
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.