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Writtle market report CM1 3, Chelmsford
The CM1 3 (Writtle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,534 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM1 3 (Chelmsford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CM1 3 (Chelmsford) is £476,500, from 30 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier; the mean is £476,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,534 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CM1 3 is a single group of streets within CM1 (Chelmsford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM1 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 CM1 3
Take the 30 registered 2026 sales in CM1 3 and the middle price, the median, is £476,500. The mean lands at £476,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CM1 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM1 3 costs about £4,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CM1 3 runs 67% above it.
The price of a typical CM1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £476,500 | £476,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £442,500 | £453,082 | 120 |
| 2024 | £372,500 | £396,044 | 98 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 109 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 138 |
| 2021 | £382,500 | £484,294 | 188 |
| 2020 | £352,500 | £457,376 | 82 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 118 |
| 2018 | £351,200 | £468,156 | 114 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 144 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 153 |
| 2015 | £274,800 | £388,292 | 138 |
| 2014 | £247,200 | £350,696 | 152 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 143 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 104 |
| 2011 | £223,000 | £336,644 | 115 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 119 |
| 2009 | £208,500 | £335,166 | 96 |
| 2008 | £219,000 | £358,987 | 82 |
| 2007 | £220,800 | £374,538 | 196 |
| 2006 | £196,800 | £341,620 | 204 |
| 2005 | £198,000 | £352,360 | 142 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 213 |
| 2003 | £142,500 | £262,520 | 372 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 252 |
| 2001 | £128,200 | £246,458 | 128 |
| 2000 | £112,800 | £221,370 | 146 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 143 |
| 1998 | £79,500 | £160,476 | 128 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 145 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 119 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 3 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £476,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 272%: 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 3% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM1 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 2000 (+21.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.7% | +5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
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
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.
CM1 3 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 a year over the last five. 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 tenants pay around CM1 3
For renting purposes CM1 3 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,063 a month here against £2,233 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £476,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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 CM1 3 trades
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM1 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 CM1, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on CM1 3 (Writtle)
Are property prices falling in CM1 3 (Writtle)?
Is CM1 3 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM1 3 (Writtle)?
Will CM1 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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.
On the market in CM1 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Lupin Drive, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1
- Lupin Drive, Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1, Chelmsford, Essex
- Beaulieu Park, Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford
"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 CM1 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: CM prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CM1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM1 1 | £285,000 | 47 |
| CM1 2 | £365,500 | 67 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM1 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CM1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.