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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3 1, Chelmsford
The CM3 1 (Hatfield Peverel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,471 HM Land Registry entries for CM3 1 (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: 21 registered 2026 sales put the CM3 1 (Chelmsford) median at £435,000, down 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £478,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,510 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,471 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CM3 1 is one sector of CM3 (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 CM3 1 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 CM3 1
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM3 1 home went for £435,000. The mean is £478,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in CM3 1
The last five years of sales put CM3 1 at roughly £4,510 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CM3 1 runs 53% above it.
The price of a typical CM3 1 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £537,500 | £550,353 | 58 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 52 |
| 2023 | £457,000 | £502,131 | 47 |
| 2022 | £530,000 | £621,485 | 57 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 137 |
| 2020 | £427,500 | £554,690 | 87 |
| 2019 | £377,500 | £494,812 | 80 |
| 2018 | £391,800 | £522,277 | 84 |
| 2017 | £384,500 | £524,419 | 64 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 65 |
| 2015 | £323,000 | £456,399 | 103 |
| 2014 | £315,000 | £446,883 | 69 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 65 |
| 2012 | £279,800 | £411,831 | 66 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 75 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 65 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 58 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 43 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 125 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 169 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 97 |
| 2004 | £216,300 | £392,843 | 117 |
| 2003 | £224,000 | £412,662 | 106 |
| 2002 | £222,700 | £419,008 | 80 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 74 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 52 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 77 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 59 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 88 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 76 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 55 |
In cash terms the typical CM3 1 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 157%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM3 1 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 (+44.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−21.7%). 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) | −19.1% | −21.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 CM3 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 103 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around CM3 1
For renting purposes CM3 1 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,063 a month here against £2,233 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, which against the £435,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the CM3 1 market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM3 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
CM3 1 (Hatfield Peverel): the questions that come up
Is CM3 1 (Hatfield Peverel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM3 1 (Hatfield Peverel)?
Are property prices falling in CM3 1 (Hatfield Peverel)?
Are CM3 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% 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.
CM3's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 174 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM3 district, not just CM3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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.
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"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 CM3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 CM3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM3 2 | £378,800 | 32 |
| CM3 3 | £420,000 | 35 |
| CM3 4 | £527,500 | 50 |
| CM3 5 | £370,000 | 104 |
| CM3 6 | £458,500 | 46 |
| CM3 7 | £510,000 | 5 |
| CM3 8 | £470,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full CM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CM3 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM3 1'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 CM3 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM3 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM3 1 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.