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Little Burstead market report CM12, Billericay
The standing CM12 (Little Burstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,051 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM12 (Billericay) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical CM12 (Billericay) home changed hands for £459,500 in 2026 (median of 148 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £497,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,420 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 13,051 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district CM12 covering Billericay (West), Little Burstead sits in Billericay. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CM12 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 CM12 homes really sell for
The CM12 median stands at £459,500 for 2026, built from 148 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £497,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CM12
A square metre of CM12 home has cost about £5,420 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CM12 sits 61% above the national market.
A typical CM12 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £459,500 | £459,500 | 148 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 352 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 299 |
| 2023 | £442,000 | £485,650 | 263 |
| 2022 | £487,800 | £572,001 | 386 |
| 2021 | £485,000 | £614,073 | 459 |
| 2020 | £451,200 | £585,441 | 322 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 315 |
| 2018 | £420,000 | £559,868 | 326 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 360 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 361 |
| 2015 | £347,800 | £491,441 | 426 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 454 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 414 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 325 |
| 2011 | £271,200 | £409,408 | 300 |
| 2010 | £277,800 | £435,662 | 316 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 295 |
| 2008 | £272,200 | £446,193 | 232 |
| 2007 | £272,000 | £461,388 | 499 |
| 2006 | £248,500 | £431,364 | 509 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 426 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 475 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 478 |
| 2002 | £183,000 | £344,313 | 515 |
| 2001 | £149,500 | £287,406 | 582 |
| 2000 | £136,000 | £266,900 | 493 |
| 1999 | £112,500 | £224,207 | 609 |
| 1998 | £102,000 | £205,894 | 543 |
| 1997 | £96,000 | £196,877 | 626 |
| 1996 | £84,000 | £177,152 | 487 |
| 1995 | £75,700 | £164,560 | 456 |
In cash terms the typical CM12 home went from £75,700 in 1995 to £459,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 179%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM12 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−9.4%). 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) | −8.1% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £660,000 against £255,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CM12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £660,000 | 44 | 4,444 |
| Semi-detached | £463,800 | 58 | 4,537 |
| Terraced | £374,000 | 24 | 2,138 |
| Flats | £255,000 | 22 | 1,932 |
Sales activity in CM12
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 291 sales completed in CM12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 497 sales a year before the financial crisis and 290 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.
How CM12 trades
CM12 sits 6 of 25 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around CM12
For renting purposes CM12 sits in Basildon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,410 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £972 a month here against £2,104 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Basildon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £459,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,410 a month (£16,920 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
Common questions on CM12 (Little Burstead)
Is CM12 (Little Burstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM12 (Little Burstead)?
Are property prices falling in CM12 (Little Burstead)?
Will CM12 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in CM12 today
Everything above is what homes in CM12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 56 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the CM12 median sold price.
23% 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.
"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 CM12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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
CM12 ranks 23 of 25 in the CM area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CM12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM12 0 | £450,000 | 97 |
| CM12 9 | £475,000 | 51 |
How CM12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CM4 | £808,200 | +26% |
| CM13 | £530,000 | +12% |
| CM16 | £527,500 | -8% |
| CM15 | £510,000 | -1% |
| CM5 | £500,000 | +4% |
| CM12 (this report) | £459,500 | -5% |
| CM11 | £455,000 | -1% |
| CM21 | £450,000 | +13% |
| CM22 | £445,000 | -8% |
| CM6 | £432,500 | +1% |
| CM23 | £422,000 | +0% |
| CM24 | £420,000 | +1% |
| CM3 | £415,000 | +0% |
| CM14 | £411,200 | +3% |
| CM77 | £402,500 | +6% |
| CM17 | £400,000 | +3% |
| CM1 | £398,000 | +8% |
| CM9 | £375,000 | +9% |
| CM2 | £370,000 | +4% |
| CM19 | £354,500 | +18% |
| CM0 | £350,000 | +0% |
| CM18 | £325,000 | +16% |
| CM20 | £325,000 | +10% |
| CM7 | £320,000 | +7% |
Selling a home in CM12? 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 CM12'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM12.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM12. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM12 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.