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Hartford market report CW8 3, Northwich
The CW8 3 (Hartford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,287 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CW8 3 (Northwich) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CW8 3 (Northwich) came in at £241,500, out of 50 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £285,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,710 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,287 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CW8 3 is one sector of CW8 (Northwich): 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 CW8 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 buyers actually paid in CW8 3
In the CW8 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £241,500, from 50 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £285,700, sitting 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 3
By floor space, homes in CW8 3 have sold for about £2,710 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CW8 3 runs 15% below it.
The price of a typical CW8 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 | £241,500 | £241,500 | 50 |
| 2025 | £239,000 | £244,715 | 94 |
| 2024 | £225,500 | £239,753 | 93 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 104 |
| 2022 | £207,300 | £243,083 | 98 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 117 |
| 2020 | £162,500 | £210,847 | 88 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 91 |
| 2018 | £171,500 | £228,613 | 96 |
| 2017 | £156,500 | £213,450 | 113 |
| 2016 | £149,000 | £208,452 | 128 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 115 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 113 |
| 2013 | £136,000 | £195,690 | 112 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 88 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 75 |
| 2010 | £137,000 | £214,851 | 76 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 81 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 65 |
| 2007 | £141,500 | £240,023 | 113 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 130 |
| 2005 | £122,000 | £217,111 | 118 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 122 |
| 2003 | £92,500 | £170,407 | 141 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 129 |
| 2001 | £78,200 | £150,336 | 112 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 123 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 139 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 104 |
| 1997 | £61,000 | £125,099 | 95 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 80 |
| 1995 | £52,800 | £114,779 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical CW8 3 home went from £52,800 in 1995 to £241,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 110%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CW8 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 2004 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW8 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CW8 3 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How CW8 3 trades
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CW8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CW8, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of CW8 3
For renting purposes CW8 3 sits in Cheshire West and Chester. The ONS average private rent there is £974 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £241,500 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Asked and answered: CW8 3 (Hartford)
Is CW8 3 (Hartford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW8 3 (Hartford)?
Are property prices falling in CW8 3 (Hartford)?
Are CW8 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in CW8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 81 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CW8 district, not just CW8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CW8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CW 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Winners and losers across the CW area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CW8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CW8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW8 1 | £227,500 | 67 |
| CW8 2 | £375,000 | 67 |
| 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.
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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.