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Hartford market report CW8, Northwich
The CW8 (Hartford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 21,969 HM Land Registry entries for CW8 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CW8 (Northwich) is £266,000, from 282 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £315,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,969 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district CW8 covering Northwich (west), Hartford, Weaverham sits in Northwich. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CW8 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
Across 282 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CW8 home went for £266,000. The mean is £315,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in CW8
A square metre of CW8 home has cost about £2,880 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 7% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CW8 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 | £266,000 | £266,000 | 282 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 773 |
| 2024 | £263,000 | £279,623 | 691 |
| 2023 | £255,200 | £280,402 | 648 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 845 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 1,002 |
| 2020 | £218,000 | £282,860 | 677 |
| 2019 | £204,500 | £268,051 | 758 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 898 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 1,055 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 905 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 798 |
| 2014 | £171,400 | £243,161 | 760 |
| 2013 | £161,700 | £232,670 | 544 |
| 2012 | £147,500 | £217,102 | 406 |
| 2011 | £153,500 | £231,726 | 394 |
| 2010 | £155,500 | £243,864 | 383 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 377 |
| 2008 | £156,500 | £256,537 | 348 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 775 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 873 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 671 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 730 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 878 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 1,040 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 774 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 787 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 743 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 588 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 538 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 511 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 517 |
In cash terms the typical CW8 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £266,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 113%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CW8 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CW8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £420,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CW8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £420,000 | 91 | 7,471 |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | 108 | 7,679 |
| Terraced | £194,500 | 64 | 5,428 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 19 | 1,391 |
How many homes change hands in CW8
The year-by-year sales count
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 626 sales completed in CW8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 816 sales a year before the financial crisis and 648 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.
Rents around CW8
The local authority for CW8 is Cheshire West and Chester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £974 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £266,000 median sold price, £974 a month is £11,688 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
What people ask about CW8 (Hartford)
How much did a house sell for in CW8 (Hartford)?
Are property prices falling in CW8 (Hartford)?
Is CW8 (Hartford) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CW8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 CW8 right now
Everything above is what homes in CW8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 81 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the CW8 median sold price.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CW prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CW area, straight 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
CW8 ranks 6 of 12 in the CW area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, CW area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CW8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CW8 1 | £227,500 | 67 |
| CW8 2 | £375,000 | 67 |
| CW8 3 | £241,500 | 50 |
| CW8 4 | £245,000 | 98 |
How CW8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CW6 | £408,400 | -6% |
| CW4 | £400,000 | +14% |
| CW3 | £345,000 | +11% |
| CW5 | £295,000 | +5% |
| CW12 | £269,500 | +4% |
| CW11 | £266,200 | +11% |
| CW8 (this report) | £266,000 | +11% |
| CW10 | £255,000 | +24% |
| CW9 | £252,000 | +6% |
| CW2 | £230,500 | +9% |
| CW7 | £214,000 | +20% |
| CW1 | £195,000 | +10% |
Selling a home in CW8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CW8, open the average prices map and zoom from the CW8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CW8 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.
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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.