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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3 2, Chelmsford
The standing CM3 2 (Hatfield Peverel) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,431 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM3 2 (Chelmsford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the CM3 2 (Chelmsford) median at £378,800, down 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £441,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,730 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,431 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CM3 2 is a single group of streets within CM3 (Chelmsford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM3 2 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.
CM3 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the CM3 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £378,800, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £441,100, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in CM3 2
By floor space, homes in CM3 2 have sold for about £4,730 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM3 2 trades 33% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM3 2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £378,800 | £378,800 | 32 |
| 2025 | £530,000 | £542,674 | 96 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 104 |
| 2023 | £490,000 | £538,390 | 139 |
| 2022 | £459,500 | £538,816 | 146 |
| 2021 | £436,000 | £552,032 | 144 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 60 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 71 |
| 2018 | £382,000 | £509,213 | 64 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 65 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 60 |
| 2015 | £297,500 | £420,368 | 56 |
| 2014 | £273,200 | £387,582 | 80 |
| 2013 | £282,500 | £406,489 | 52 |
| 2012 | £226,500 | £333,380 | 42 |
| 2011 | £231,200 | £349,023 | 62 |
| 2010 | £294,000 | £461,068 | 52 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 47 |
| 2008 | £274,400 | £449,800 | 42 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 75 |
| 2006 | £240,100 | £416,783 | 98 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 77 |
| 2004 | £228,200 | £414,456 | 98 |
| 2003 | £193,500 | £356,474 | 74 |
| 2002 | £171,800 | £323,240 | 72 |
| 2001 | £160,500 | £308,553 | 84 |
| 2000 | £151,000 | £296,338 | 65 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 89 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 69 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 94 |
| 1996 | £85,800 | £180,948 | 70 |
| 1995 | £82,500 | £179,342 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical CM3 2 home went from £82,500 in 1995 to £378,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 111%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM3 2 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 (+47.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−28.5%). 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) | −28.5% | −30.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.8% | −7.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
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.
The register shows 32 CM3 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 103 sales a year over the last five years against 80 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around CM3 2
The local authority for CM3 2 is Braintree, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,232 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £863 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,003 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Braintree
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £378,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,232 a month (£14,784 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
The shape of the CM3 2 market
This is a thin market: 32 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 CM3, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: CM3 2 (Hatfield Peverel)
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Will CM3 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% 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.
What is for sale in CM3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 174 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM3 district, not just CM3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CM3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 CM3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM3 1 | £435,000 | 21 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CM3 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM3 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM3 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM3 2 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 CM3 2.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CM3 2 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.
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.