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Sawbridgeworth market report CM21 0
The standing CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,510 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth) median at £518,500, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £515,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,040 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,510 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CM21 0 is one sector of CM21 (Sawbridgeworth): 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 CM21 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.
The going rate for a home in CM21 0
Take the 21 registered 2026 sales in CM21 0 and the middle price, the median, is £518,500. The mean lands at £515,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
CM21 0 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM21 0 costs about £5,040 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM21 0 82% above the country at large.
A typical CM21 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £518,500 | £518,500 | 21 |
| 2025 | £517,500 | £529,875 | 67 |
| 2024 | £587,500 | £624,633 | 101 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 110 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 149 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 93 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 59 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 45 |
| 2018 | £427,200 | £569,466 | 76 |
| 2017 | £444,000 | £605,571 | 60 |
| 2016 | £387,500 | £542,116 | 71 |
| 2015 | £383,800 | £542,309 | 50 |
| 2014 | £310,500 | £440,498 | 78 |
| 2013 | £290,000 | £417,281 | 61 |
| 2012 | £306,000 | £450,394 | 72 |
| 2011 | £347,000 | £523,837 | 56 |
| 2010 | £303,300 | £475,652 | 58 |
| 2009 | £275,000 | £442,065 | 55 |
| 2008 | £310,000 | £508,155 | 45 |
| 2007 | £271,500 | £460,540 | 72 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 94 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 73 |
| 2004 | £227,500 | £413,184 | 91 |
| 2003 | £218,500 | £402,530 | 84 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 102 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 117 |
| 2000 | £144,500 | £283,581 | 93 |
| 1999 | £126,500 | £252,108 | 102 |
| 1998 | £94,500 | £190,755 | 93 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 91 |
| 1996 | £99,000 | £208,787 | 103 |
| 1995 | £82,600 | £179,560 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical CM21 0 home went from £82,600 in 1995 to £518,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM21 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 1999 (+33.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−11.9%). 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) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in CM21 0. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 90 sales a year recently, against 91 a year before 2008. 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.
How CM21 0 trades
This is a thin market: 21 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 CM21, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of CM21 0
For renting purposes CM21 0 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,064 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,406 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £518,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,503 a month (£18,036 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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 CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth)
Is CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth)?
Are property prices falling in CM21 0 (Sawbridgeworth)?
Will CM21 0 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 is for sale in CM21 right now
The live side of the market holds 46 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM21 district, not just CM21 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Blenheim Close, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
- High Wych Road, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
- Blenheim Close, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CM21 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, from the Land Registry record. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM21 9 | £412,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full CM21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM21 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM21 0'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 CM21 0.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual CM21 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.