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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3 3, Chelmsford
The CM3 3 (Hatfield Peverel) 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: 3,249 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM3 3 (Chelmsford) 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: the middle 2026 sale in CM3 3 (Chelmsford) came in at £420,000, out of 35 registered, down 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £445,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,740 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,249 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CM3 3 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 3 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 3
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in CM3 3 and the middle price, the median, is £420,000. The mean lands at £445,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CM3 3
The last five years of sales put CM3 3 at roughly £4,740 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM3 3 trades 47% above the country as a whole.
A typical CM3 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £470,000 | £481,239 | 103 |
| 2024 | £479,000 | £509,275 | 114 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 121 |
| 2022 | £449,000 | £526,504 | 112 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 190 |
| 2020 | £438,700 | £569,222 | 156 |
| 2019 | £427,500 | £560,350 | 126 |
| 2018 | £440,000 | £586,528 | 134 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 162 |
| 2016 | £410,000 | £573,594 | 137 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 98 |
| 2014 | £246,500 | £349,703 | 76 |
| 2013 | £221,900 | £319,292 | 72 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 51 |
| 2011 | £217,500 | £328,341 | 51 |
| 2010 | £230,500 | £361,483 | 74 |
| 2009 | £208,800 | £335,648 | 48 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 48 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 117 |
| 2006 | £192,000 | £333,287 | 85 |
| 2005 | £184,000 | £327,446 | 86 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 103 |
| 2003 | £158,500 | £291,995 | 100 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 123 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 128 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 101 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 108 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 124 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 91 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 91 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical CM3 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 222%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM3 3 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 2016 (+46.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.6%). 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) | −10.6% | −12.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in CM3 3. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 97 sales a year recently, against 105 a year before 2008. 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.
What tenants pay around CM3 3
For renting purposes CM3 3 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £420,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Reading the CM3 3 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM3 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: CM3 3 (Hatfield Peverel)
Is CM3 3 (Hatfield Peverel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM3 3 (Hatfield Peverel)?
Are property prices falling in CM3 3 (Hatfield Peverel)?
Where do CM3 3 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CM3 now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Fairway Drive, Chelmsford, Essex
- Gay Bowers Road, Danbury, Essex, Danbury
- Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford
"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.
What another bedroom costs in CM
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, 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.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM3 1 | £435,000 | 21 |
| CM3 2 | £378,800 | 32 |
| 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 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM3 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM3 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM3 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM3 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM3 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM3 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CM3 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.