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Sawbridgeworth market report CM21 9
The CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,452 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM21 9 (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: a typical CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth) home changed hands for £412,500 in 2026 (median of 36 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £421,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,452 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CM21 9 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 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.
What a home in CM21 9 sells for
The CM21 9 median stands at £412,500 for 2026, built from 36 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £421,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in CM21 9
A square metre of CM21 9 home has cost about £4,900 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM21 9 trades 45% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM21 9 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £412,500 | £412,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £381,500 | £390,623 | 137 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 105 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 89 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 123 |
| 2021 | £365,800 | £463,150 | 178 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 125 |
| 2019 | £353,200 | £462,961 | 124 |
| 2018 | £342,000 | £455,892 | 135 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 159 |
| 2016 | £277,500 | £388,225 | 116 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 153 |
| 2014 | £217,000 | £307,852 | 155 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 147 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 127 |
| 2011 | £224,200 | £338,456 | 114 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 134 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 111 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 110 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 204 |
| 2006 | £193,200 | £335,371 | 262 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 201 |
| 2004 | £166,000 | £301,488 | 233 |
| 2003 | £156,000 | £287,390 | 196 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 292 |
| 2001 | £119,500 | £229,733 | 265 |
| 2000 | £93,200 | £182,905 | 204 |
| 1999 | £81,500 | £162,425 | 263 |
| 1998 | £74,200 | £149,778 | 258 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 261 |
| 1996 | £63,200 | £133,286 | 216 |
| 1995 | £69,500 | £151,082 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical CM21 9 home went from £69,500 in 1995 to £412,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 173%, 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 15% 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 CM21 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 2010 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−23.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CM21 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
CM21 9 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 232 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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.
How CM21 9 trades
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM21 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the CM21 district median, CM21 9 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CM21 9
For renting purposes CM21 9 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,064 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,406, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £412,500 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 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.
CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth): the questions that come up
Is CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth)?
Are property prices falling in CM21 9 (Sawbridgeworth)?
Are CM21 9 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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 CM21 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Blenheim Close, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
- High Wych Road, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
- Blenheim Close, Sawbridgeworth, Sawbridgeworth
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
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%) | — | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 0 | £518,500 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full CM21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM21 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM21 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM21 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM21 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 CM21 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM21 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM21 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.
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.