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Writtle market report CM1 1, Chelmsford
The CM1 1 (Writtle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,811 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM1 1 (Chelmsford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CM1 1 (Chelmsford) sold for £285,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £303,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,270 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,811 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CM1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CM1 (Chelmsford). 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 CM1 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.
What a home in CM1 1 sells for
Across 47 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM1 1 home went for £285,000. The mean is £303,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CM1 1
A square metre of CM1 1 home has cost about £4,270 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 CM1 1 0% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CM1 1 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 141 |
| 2024 | £284,000 | £301,950 | 98 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 113 |
| 2022 | £299,800 | £351,550 | 184 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 164 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 94 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 148 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 137 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 161 |
| 2016 | £265,500 | £371,437 | 236 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 237 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 128 |
| 2013 | £208,800 | £300,442 | 74 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 47 |
| 2011 | £196,800 | £297,092 | 66 |
| 2010 | £199,000 | £312,083 | 69 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 77 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 123 |
| 2007 | £213,500 | £362,155 | 232 |
| 2006 | £187,800 | £325,997 | 150 |
| 2005 | £186,000 | £331,005 | 156 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 109 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 87 |
| 2002 | £133,500 | £251,179 | 101 |
| 2001 | £105,200 | £202,242 | 80 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 125 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 90 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 164 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 62 |
| 1996 | £55,500 | £117,047 | 57 |
| 1995 | £51,800 | £112,605 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 1 home went from £51,800 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM1 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 2000 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.4%). 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) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CM1 1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in CM1 1. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 117 sales a year recently, against 130 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.
What kind of market CM1 1 is
Only 47 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM1 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within CM1, this sector trades 28% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around CM1 1
CM1 1 falls under Chelmsford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,063 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,233 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, which against the £285,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. 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.
What people ask about CM1 1 (Writtle)
How much did a house sell for in CM1 1 (Writtle)?
Are property prices falling in CM1 1 (Writtle)?
Is CM1 1 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
Are CM1 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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 is for sale in CM1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 274 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM1 district, not just CM1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- Lupin Drive, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1
- Lupin Drive, Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1, Chelmsford, Essex
- Beaulieu Park, Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford
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 CM1 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.
What another bedroom costs in CM
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM 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 | — | £417,500 | £550,000 (+32%) | £785,000 (+43%) | £1,137,500 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £370,000 (+14%) | £447,500 (+21%) | £575,000 (+28%) | £780,000 (+36%) |
| Terraced | £292,000 | £335,000 (+15%) | £380,000 (+13%) | £492,500 (+30%) | £700,000 (+42%) |
| Flat | £202,000 | £280,000 (+39%) | £385,000 (+38%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM1 2 | £365,500 | 67 |
| CM1 3 | £476,500 | 30 |
| CM1 4 | £460,000 | 61 |
| CM1 6 | £392,500 | 82 |
| CM1 7 | £446,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full CM1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CM1 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM1 1 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 CM1 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM1 1 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.