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Writtle market report CM1 6, Chelmsford
The CM1 6 (Writtle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,316 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM1 6 (Chelmsford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CM1 6 (Chelmsford) sold for £392,500 in 2026, the median of 82 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £433,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,610 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,316 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CM1 6 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 6 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 6 sells for
The 2026 median for CM1 6 is £392,500, taken from 82 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £433,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CM1 6
A square metre of CM1 6 home has cost about £4,610 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM1 6 trades 38% above the country as a whole.
CM1 6's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £392,500 | £392,500 | 82 |
| 2025 | £451,000 | £461,785 | 312 |
| 2024 | £416,200 | £442,506 | 318 |
| 2023 | £438,200 | £481,475 | 288 |
| 2022 | £426,500 | £500,120 | 422 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 354 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 268 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 359 |
| 2018 | £403,500 | £537,873 | 310 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 324 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 289 |
| 2015 | £282,200 | £398,749 | 228 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 236 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 197 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 186 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 180 |
| 2010 | £206,800 | £324,316 | 202 |
| 2009 | £184,500 | £296,585 | 186 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 147 |
| 2007 | £197,500 | £335,015 | 309 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 345 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 321 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 294 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 359 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 397 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 431 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 374 |
| 1999 | £77,200 | £153,856 | 416 |
| 1998 | £69,200 | £139,685 | 248 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 350 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 306 |
| 1995 | £55,800 | £121,301 | 278 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 6 home went from £55,800 in 1995 to £392,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 224%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM1 6 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 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.0% | −15.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 82 CM1 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 284 sales a year recently, against 354 a year before 2008. 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 rental side of CM1 6
CM1 6 falls under Chelmsford, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £392,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: CM1 6 (Writtle)
How much did a house sell for in CM1 6 (Writtle)?
Are property prices falling in CM1 6 (Writtle)?
Is CM1 6 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CM1 6 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CM1 right 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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
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 3 | £476,500 | 30 |
| CM1 4 | £460,000 | 61 |
| 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 6: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM1 6'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.
Estate agents working CM1 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM1 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM1 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM1 6 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.
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.