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Hartford market report CW8 2, Northwich
The standing CW8 2 (Hartford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,021 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW8 2 (Northwich) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CW8 2 (Northwich) is £375,000, from 67 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £439,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,021 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CW8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CW8 (Northwich). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CW8 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.
The going rate for a home in CW8 2
The 2026 median for CW8 2 is £375,000, taken from 67 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £439,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in CW8 2
A square metre of CW8 2 home has cost about £3,260 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CW8 2 32% above the country at large.
CW8 2's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £422,500 | £432,603 | 168 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 151 |
| 2023 | £352,500 | £387,311 | 116 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 170 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 258 |
| 2020 | £320,000 | £415,207 | 164 |
| 2019 | £276,000 | £361,770 | 166 |
| 2018 | £297,500 | £396,573 | 198 |
| 2017 | £263,800 | £359,797 | 216 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 189 |
| 2015 | £315,000 | £445,095 | 185 |
| 2014 | £302,500 | £429,149 | 176 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 153 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 101 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 90 |
| 2010 | £264,400 | £414,647 | 108 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 92 |
| 2008 | £274,500 | £449,963 | 90 |
| 2007 | £267,000 | £452,906 | 154 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 210 |
| 2005 | £236,000 | £419,985 | 138 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 166 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 175 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 222 |
| 2001 | £178,800 | £343,734 | 212 |
| 2000 | £151,500 | £297,319 | 177 |
| 1999 | £121,800 | £242,741 | 174 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 143 |
| 1997 | £101,800 | £208,771 | 124 |
| 1996 | £93,000 | £196,133 | 129 |
| 1995 | £98,000 | £213,037 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical CW8 2 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 76%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CW8 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 2000 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−21.3%). 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) | −11.2% | −13.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
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 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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 rental side of CW8 2
For renting purposes CW8 2 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Reading the CW8 2 market
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 CW8 district median, CW8 2 sits 41% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
CW8 2 (Hartford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CW8 2 (Hartford)?
Is CW8 2 (Hartford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW8 2 (Hartford)?
Will CW8 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in CW8 today
The live side of the market holds 81 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW8 district, not just CW8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CW: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CW 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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 CW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CW area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CW8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CW8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW8 1 | £227,500 | 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 a home in CW8 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CW8 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW8 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CW8 2 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.