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Chelmsford market report CM2 0
The CM2 0 (Chelmsford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,640 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM2 0 (Chelmsford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 45 registered 2026 sales put the CM2 0 (Chelmsford) median at £315,000, down 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £323,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,570 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,640 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CM2 0 is a single group of streets within CM2 (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 CM2 0 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 CM2 0 sells for
In the CM2 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £315,000, from 45 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £323,900, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CM2 0 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CM2 0 at roughly £4,570 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CM2 0 sits 11% above the national market.
A typical CM2 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 158 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 117 |
| 2023 | £303,800 | £333,802 | 106 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 159 |
| 2021 | £332,000 | £420,355 | 161 |
| 2020 | £312,500 | £405,475 | 90 |
| 2019 | £293,900 | £385,233 | 118 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 201 |
| 2017 | £314,000 | £428,264 | 198 |
| 2016 | £276,500 | £386,826 | 206 |
| 2015 | £233,000 | £329,229 | 196 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 198 |
| 2013 | £198,000 | £284,902 | 183 |
| 2012 | £196,500 | £289,223 | 164 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 142 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 141 |
| 2009 | £197,000 | £316,679 | 102 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 117 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 186 |
| 2006 | £186,000 | £322,872 | 249 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 177 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 261 |
| 2003 | £162,000 | £298,443 | 181 |
| 2002 | £134,500 | £253,061 | 235 |
| 2001 | £111,800 | £214,930 | 254 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 205 |
| 1999 | £76,800 | £153,058 | 282 |
| 1998 | £67,200 | £135,648 | 221 |
| 1997 | £56,700 | £116,280 | 208 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 216 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical CM2 0 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 196%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM2 0 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−15.7%). 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) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in CM2 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in CM2 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 219 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CM2 0
CM2 0 falls under Chelmsford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,063 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,233, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £315,000 median sold price, £1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the CM2 0 market
This is a thin market: 45 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within CM2, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about CM2 0 (Chelmsford)
Are property prices falling in CM2 0 (Chelmsford)?
Is CM2 0 (Chelmsford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM2 0 (Chelmsford)?
Where do CM2 0 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
What is for sale in CM2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 314 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM2 district, not just CM2 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% 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.
"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 CM2 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.
What another bedroom costs in CM
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. 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.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CM2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM2 5 | £365,000 | 1 |
| CM2 6 | £350,000 | 106 |
| CM2 7 | £420,000 | 42 |
| CM2 8 | £440,000 | 53 |
| CM2 9 | £390,000 | 96 |
Zoom out to the full CM2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CM2 0? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM2 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM2 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM2 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM2 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM2 0.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM2 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM2 0 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.