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Chelmsford market report CM2 9
The standing CM2 9 (Chelmsford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,510 HM Land Registry entries for CM2 9 (Chelmsford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CM2 9 (Chelmsford) came in at £390,000, out of 96 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £400,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,680 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,510 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CM2 9 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 9 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 CM2 9
Take the 96 registered 2026 sales in CM2 9 and the middle price, the median, is £390,000. The mean lands at £400,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CM2 9
The last five years of sales put CM2 9 at roughly £4,680 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM2 9 37% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CM2 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 96 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 209 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 176 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 206 |
| 2022 | £396,900 | £465,411 | 254 |
| 2021 | £363,800 | £460,618 | 344 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 219 |
| 2019 | £349,500 | £458,111 | 254 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 237 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 224 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 274 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 310 |
| 2014 | £267,800 | £379,921 | 354 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 243 |
| 2012 | £219,400 | £322,929 | 242 |
| 2011 | £224,800 | £339,362 | 228 |
| 2010 | £216,200 | £339,057 | 222 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 203 |
| 2008 | £222,000 | £363,905 | 158 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 364 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 362 |
| 2005 | £190,500 | £339,013 | 308 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 350 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 295 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 335 |
| 2001 | £120,500 | £231,655 | 303 |
| 2000 | £108,100 | £212,146 | 306 |
| 1999 | £84,700 | £168,803 | 398 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 289 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 273 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 240 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 234 |
In cash terms the typical CM2 9 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 209%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. 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 9 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 2000 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.9%). 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) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 96 CM2 9 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 328 sales a year before the financial crisis and 188 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 CM2 9
The local authority for CM2 9 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.
Set against the £390,000 median sold price, £1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 9 (Chelmsford): the questions that come up
Is CM2 9 (Chelmsford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM2 9 (Chelmsford)?
Are property prices falling in CM2 9 (Chelmsford)?
Will CM2 9 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in CM2 today
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 9: 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM2 0 | £315,000 | 45 |
| CM2 5 | £365,000 | 1 |
| CM2 6 | £350,000 | 106 |
| CM2 7 | £420,000 | 42 |
| CM2 8 | £440,000 | 53 |
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 9? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM2 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM2 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM2 9 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 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM2 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM2 9 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.