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Hartford market report CW8 4, Northwich
The CW8 4 (Hartford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,080 HM Land Registry entries for CW8 4 (Northwich), 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 typical home in CW8 4 (Northwich) sold for £245,000 in 2026, the median of 98 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £262,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,680 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,080 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CW8 4 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 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 CW8 4 homes really sell for
98 sales were registered in CW8 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,000. The mean works out at £262,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CW8 4
A square metre of CW8 4 home has cost about £2,680 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CW8 4 trades 14% below the country as a whole.
CW8 4's median sold price, 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 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 98 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 312 |
| 2024 | £237,500 | £252,511 | 266 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 242 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 341 |
| 2021 | £212,000 | £268,419 | 395 |
| 2020 | £193,000 | £250,421 | 287 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 327 |
| 2018 | £187,800 | £250,341 | 372 |
| 2017 | £186,200 | £253,958 | 436 |
| 2016 | £187,000 | £261,615 | 353 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 325 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 335 |
| 2013 | £146,800 | £211,231 | 158 |
| 2012 | £130,800 | £192,521 | 118 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 128 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 109 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 95 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 94 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 276 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 287 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 258 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 234 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 331 |
| 2002 | £78,500 | £147,697 | 416 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 267 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 294 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 231 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 177 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 186 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 163 |
| 1995 | £45,600 | £99,127 | 169 |
In cash terms the typical CW8 4 home went from £45,600 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 147%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CW8 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 2002 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW8 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 98 CW8 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 252 sales a year recently, against 295 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around CW8 4
The local authority for CW8 4 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£974 a month is £11,688 a year, which against the £245,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How CW8 4 trades
Within CW8, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
CW8 4 (Hartford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CW8 4 (Hartford)?
Is CW8 4 (Hartford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CW8 4 (Hartford)?
Are CW8 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CW: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £375,000 | 67 |
| CW8 3 | £241,500 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full CW8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CW8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CW8 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW8 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CW8 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CW8 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CW8 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.