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Chelmsford market report CM2 7
The CM2 7 (Chelmsford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,510 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM2 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CM2 7 (Chelmsford) sold for £420,000 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £465,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,510 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CM2 7 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 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.
Today's CM2 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CM2 7 is £420,000, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £465,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CM2 7
Per square metre, CM2 7 homes have averaged around £4,460 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM2 7 47% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CM2 7 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 132 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 141 |
| 2023 | £381,000 | £418,626 | 75 |
| 2022 | £407,500 | £477,840 | 140 |
| 2021 | £396,200 | £501,640 | 180 |
| 2020 | £383,500 | £497,599 | 124 |
| 2019 | £368,800 | £483,409 | 116 |
| 2018 | £286,000 | £381,243 | 168 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 128 |
| 2016 | £337,800 | £472,586 | 140 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 149 |
| 2014 | £238,000 | £337,645 | 137 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 157 |
| 2012 | £237,500 | £349,570 | 97 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 107 |
| 2010 | £240,500 | £377,166 | 116 |
| 2009 | £214,500 | £344,811 | 106 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 104 |
| 2007 | £233,000 | £395,233 | 216 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 221 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 129 |
| 2004 | £188,000 | £341,445 | 163 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 215 |
| 2002 | £155,500 | £292,572 | 181 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 190 |
| 2000 | £104,500 | £205,081 | 138 |
| 1999 | £93,200 | £185,743 | 142 |
| 1998 | £85,500 | £172,588 | 167 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 152 |
| 1996 | £64,200 | £135,395 | 132 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical CM2 7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 222%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM2 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 2019 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.6%). 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) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CM2 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, 42 sales completed in CM2 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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 CM2 7 trades
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM2 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CM2, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of CM2 7
The local authority for CM2 7 is Chelmsford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £420,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Searches that land here, answered
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Asked and answered: CM2 7 (Chelmsford)
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What happens to CM2 7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM2 0 | £315,000 | 45 |
| CM2 5 | £365,000 | 1 |
| CM2 6 | £350,000 | 106 |
| 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 7? 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 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM2 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM2 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM2 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM2 7.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every CM2 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.