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Writtle market report CM1 7, Chelmsford
The standing CM1 7 (Writtle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,327 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM1 7 (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 7 (Chelmsford) is £446,000, from 44 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £460,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,327 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM1 7 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 7 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.
The going rate for a home in CM1 7
In the CM1 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £446,000, from 44 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £460,400, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in CM1 7
By floor space, homes in CM1 7 have sold for about £4,660 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM1 7 56% above the country at large.
CM1 7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £446,000 | £446,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 116 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 131 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 95 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 126 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 147 |
| 2020 | £399,500 | £518,360 | 149 |
| 2019 | £357,000 | £467,942 | 162 |
| 2018 | £379,000 | £505,214 | 134 |
| 2017 | £337,500 | £460,316 | 120 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 139 |
| 2015 | £286,000 | £404,118 | 135 |
| 2014 | £268,000 | £380,205 | 115 |
| 2013 | £247,000 | £355,408 | 107 |
| 2012 | £230,500 | £339,267 | 99 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 120 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 124 |
| 2009 | £217,200 | £349,151 | 112 |
| 2008 | £215,500 | £353,250 | 86 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 162 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 190 |
| 2005 | £193,500 | £344,352 | 138 |
| 2004 | £193,000 | £350,526 | 153 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 147 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 187 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 187 |
| 2000 | £103,800 | £203,708 | 152 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 175 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 146 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 159 |
| 1996 | £64,200 | £135,395 | 152 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 118 |
In cash terms the typical CM1 7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £446,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 242%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM1 7 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 2001 (+20.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.3%). 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) | +10.1% | +7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in CM1 7
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in CM1 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 165 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
What tenants pay around CM1 7
The local authority for CM1 7 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.
Against the £446,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
Reading the CM1 7 market
This is a thin market: 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the CM1 district median, CM1 7 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CM1 7 (Writtle)
Are property prices falling in CM1 7 (Writtle)?
Is CM1 7 (Writtle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM1 7 (Writtle)?
Are CM1 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. 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
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 2 | £365,500 | 67 |
| CM1 3 | £476,500 | 30 |
| CM1 4 | £460,000 | 61 |
| CM1 6 | £392,500 | 82 |
Zoom out to the full CM1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM1 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM1 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM1 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM1 7 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 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM1 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM1 7 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.
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.