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Hartford market report CW8 1, Northwich
The CW8 1 (Hartford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,581 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CW8 1 (Northwich) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW8 1 (Northwich) came in at £227,500, out of 67 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £289,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,950 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,581 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CW8 1 is a single group of streets within CW8 (Northwich), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CW8 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.
Today's CW8 1 prices, from the sold record
The CW8 1 median stands at £227,500 for 2026, built from 67 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £289,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in CW8 1
By floor space, homes in CW8 1 have sold for about £2,950 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CW8 1 sits 20% below the national market.
The price of a typical CW8 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £227,500 | £227,500 | 67 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 199 |
| 2024 | £338,000 | £359,363 | 181 |
| 2023 | £312,500 | £343,361 | 186 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 236 |
| 2021 | £245,200 | £310,455 | 232 |
| 2020 | £248,500 | £322,434 | 138 |
| 2019 | £197,500 | £258,875 | 174 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 232 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 290 |
| 2016 | £237,000 | £331,565 | 235 |
| 2015 | £143,500 | £202,766 | 173 |
| 2014 | £128,400 | £182,158 | 136 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 121 |
| 2012 | £133,000 | £195,759 | 99 |
| 2011 | £154,000 | £232,481 | 101 |
| 2010 | £159,000 | £249,353 | 90 |
| 2009 | £147,000 | £236,304 | 109 |
| 2008 | £158,000 | £258,995 | 99 |
| 2007 | £158,800 | £269,369 | 232 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 246 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 157 |
| 2004 | £116,500 | £211,587 | 208 |
| 2003 | £91,400 | £168,381 | 231 |
| 2002 | £83,400 | £156,916 | 273 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 183 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 193 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 199 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 164 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 133 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 139 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical CW8 1 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £227,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 43% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CW8 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 2016 (+65.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−34.2%). 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) | −24.2% | −25.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 67 CW8 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 174 sales a year recently, against 215 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market CW8 1 is
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. Against the CW8 district median, CW8 1 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around CW8 1
For renting purposes CW8 1 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.
Against the £227,500 median purchase price, a rent of £974 a month (£11,688 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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: CW8 1 (Hartford)
Is CW8 1 (Hartford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW8 1 (Hartford)?
Are property prices falling in CW8 1 (Hartford)?
Where do CW8 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
CW8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 81 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW8 district, not just CW8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% 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.
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 CW8 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 CW
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CW area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £260,000 | £365,000 (+40%) | £550,000 (+51%) | £788,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £205,000 (+17%) | £258,000 (+26%) | £362,495 (+41%) | £515,000 (+42%) |
| Terraced | £147,000 | £160,000 (+9%) | £190,000 (+19%) | £280,000 (+47%) | £545,000 (+95%) |
| Flat | £115,000 | £140,000 (+22%) | £190,000 (+36%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CW area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CW8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CW8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW8 2 | £375,000 | 67 |
| CW8 3 | £241,500 | 50 |
| CW8 4 | £245,000 | 98 |
Zoom out to the full CW8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CW8 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW8 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW8 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW8 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CW8 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CW8 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CW8 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CW8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.