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Writtle market report CM1 2, Chelmsford
The standing CM1 2 (Writtle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,901 HM Land Registry entries for CM1 2 (Chelmsford), 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 2026 median for CM1 2 (Chelmsford) is £365,500, from 67 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £405,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,510 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,901 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM1 2 is one sector of CM1 (Chelmsford): 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 CM1 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.
What a home in CM1 2 sells for
67 sales were registered in CM1 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £365,500. The mean works out at £405,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CM1 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM1 2 costs about £4,510 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM1 2 28% above the national figure.
CM1 2's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,500 | £365,500 | 67 |
| 2025 | £378,500 | £387,551 | 180 |
| 2024 | £365,500 | £388,602 | 156 |
| 2023 | £370,800 | £407,419 | 148 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 218 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 225 |
| 2020 | £310,200 | £402,491 | 164 |
| 2019 | £322,000 | £422,065 | 159 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 175 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 192 |
| 2016 | £275,500 | £385,427 | 234 |
| 2015 | £262,500 | £370,913 | 237 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 224 |
| 2013 | £209,000 | £300,730 | 197 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 186 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 182 |
| 2010 | £187,500 | £294,048 | 190 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 149 |
| 2008 | £187,000 | £306,532 | 157 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 321 |
| 2006 | £186,000 | £322,872 | 317 |
| 2005 | £168,500 | £299,862 | 211 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 275 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 253 |
| 2002 | £132,500 | £249,298 | 339 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 280 |
| 2000 | £89,200 | £175,055 | 266 |
| 1999 | £79,000 | £157,443 | 262 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 207 |
| 1997 | £61,800 | £126,739 | 257 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 284 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 189 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 2 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £365,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 217%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM1 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 2002 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−4.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CM1 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CM1 2
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 CM1 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 283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 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.
The shape of the CM1 2 market
Against the CM1 district median, CM1 2 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CM1 2
The local authority for CM1 2 is Chelmsford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,063 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,233, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £365,500 median sold price, £1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
CM1 2 (Writtle): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CM1 2 (Writtle)?
Is CM1 2 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM1 2 (Writtle)?
Are CM1 2 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 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in CM1 now
The live side of the market holds 274 homes at the moment, listed by 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM1 district, not just CM1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CM 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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 CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CM area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CM1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM1 1 | £285,000 | 47 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CM1 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CM1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM1 2.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM1 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.