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Chelmsford market report CM2 6
The standing CM2 6 (Chelmsford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,178 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM2 6 (Chelmsford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CM2 6 (Chelmsford) sold for £350,000 in 2026, the median of 106 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £371,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,710 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,178 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CM2 6 is one sector of CM2 (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 CM2 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 buyers actually paid in CM2 6
In the CM2 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £350,000, from 106 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £371,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CM2 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CM2 6 at roughly £4,710 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM2 6 23% above the country at large.
CM2 6's median sold price, 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 106 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 225 |
| 2024 | £332,500 | £353,516 | 220 |
| 2023 | £326,200 | £358,414 | 247 |
| 2022 | £353,000 | £413,933 | 351 |
| 2021 | £335,000 | £424,153 | 360 |
| 2020 | £331,000 | £429,479 | 194 |
| 2019 | £298,000 | £390,607 | 250 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 251 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 265 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 357 |
| 2015 | £262,200 | £370,489 | 266 |
| 2014 | £237,000 | £336,226 | 363 |
| 2013 | £206,000 | £296,413 | 291 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 254 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 227 |
| 2010 | £212,500 | £333,255 | 263 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 273 |
| 2008 | £202,700 | £332,268 | 232 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 399 |
| 2006 | £185,500 | £322,004 | 500 |
| 2005 | £188,000 | £334,564 | 392 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 498 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 557 |
| 2002 | £143,400 | £269,806 | 600 |
| 2001 | £116,500 | £223,965 | 577 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 500 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 584 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 441 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 444 |
| 1996 | £56,400 | £118,945 | 380 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 311 |
In cash terms the typical CM2 6 home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 175%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM2 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 2001 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.6%). 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) | −4.1% | −6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
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.
The register shows 106 CM2 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 503 sales a year before the financial crisis and 230 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.
The rental side of CM2 6
CM2 6 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 £350,000 median sold price, £1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
CM2 6 (Chelmsford): the questions that come up
Is CM2 6 (Chelmsford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM2 6 (Chelmsford)?
Are property prices falling in CM2 6 (Chelmsford)?
Are CM2 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 you could buy in CM2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 314 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM2 district, not just CM2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CM2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM2 0 | £315,000 | 45 |
| CM2 5 | £365,000 | 1 |
| 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 6? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM2 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM2 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM2 6 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 CM2 6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM2 6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CM2 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.