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Writtle market report CM1 4, Chelmsford
The standing CM1 4 (Writtle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,227 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM1 4 (Chelmsford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 4 (Chelmsford) is £460,000, from 61 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £507,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,690 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,227 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM1 4 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 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 a home in CM1 4 sells for
Take the 61 registered 2026 sales in CM1 4 and the middle price, the median, is £460,000. The mean lands at £507,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CM1 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CM1 4 sales average about £4,690 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM1 4 61% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CM1 4 home, 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 | £460,000 | £460,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 173 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 123 |
| 2023 | £424,000 | £465,872 | 152 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 200 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 245 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 158 |
| 2019 | £350,800 | £459,815 | 150 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 172 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 174 |
| 2016 | £345,000 | £482,658 | 194 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 223 |
| 2014 | £288,700 | £409,571 | 214 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 186 |
| 2012 | £244,000 | £359,138 | 157 |
| 2011 | £234,000 | £353,250 | 160 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 120 |
| 2009 | £219,000 | £352,044 | 123 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 141 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 239 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 259 |
| 2005 | £204,000 | £363,038 | 177 |
| 2004 | £202,000 | £366,871 | 248 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 234 |
| 2002 | £148,200 | £278,837 | 212 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 291 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 314 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 277 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 183 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 241 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 253 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 4 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £460,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 216%: 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 17% 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 CM1 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 2000 (+37.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.7%). 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) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CM1 4 recorded 61 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 247 sales a year before the financial crisis and 142 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.
Rents around CM1 4
The local authority for CM1 4 is Chelmsford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £460,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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 CM1 4 trades
Against the CM1 district median, CM1 4 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on CM1 4 (Writtle)
Is CM1 4 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM1 4 (Writtle)?
Are property prices falling in CM1 4 (Writtle)?
What happens to CM1 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CM1's current homes for sale
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 4: 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
"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 →
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
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 1 | £285,000 | 47 |
| CM1 2 | £365,500 | 67 |
| CM1 3 | £476,500 | 30 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CM1 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM1 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM1 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM1 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM1 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.
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.